Catherine Horwood

Catherine Horwood is an English journalist, author and social historian who writes on horticulture, garden design, and in fashion, the history of dress. She is the authorised biographer of the British plantswoman, garden designer, and author, Beth Chatto (creator of Beth Chatto Gardens near Elmstead, Essex). Her biography, ''Beth Chatto: a life with plants'' won the European Garden Book of the Year award in 2020.

Horwood has contributed to the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' and to BBC Radio 4 programmes on social history.

She is married to emeritus Professor Patrick Barwise. Provided by Wikipedia