Fiona Crumley is the former secretary of The Merlin Trust and has travelled to many parts of the world particularly to look at gardens, but also the native flora and fauna.

Fiona has always worked as a gardener since leaving school and always enjoyed working within the profession of horticulture. After completing an HND in Amenity Horticulture at Askam Bryan College, York in early 1980s she then worked as a gardener at Newby Hall in North Yorkshire before moving to spend 15 years at the Chelsea Physic Garden with 12 as Head Gardener. Recently Fiona has finished working at Chiswick House Gardens after 5 years as Head Gardener and seeing through the massive park regeneration project.

Fiona is now London based working from home with a garden and an allotment and is currently a member of the Professional Gardeners Guild Traineeship sub-committee and the Worshipful Company of Gardeners and London Gardens Network. For the Royal Horticultural Society, she sits on the Bursaries Advisory Committee and is a judge for the Windlesham Trophy (which judges the finalists of a competition within HM Prisons).