Caroline Holmes lectures regularly for the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge; as well as The Arts Society, nationally and internationally, and The Gardens Trust; many of her special interest lectures are now delivered on-line. Guest speaker for the cruise companies Noble Caledonia and Viking including Viking TV.
She is the author of 12 books, her latest Where the wildness pleases – the English Garden celebrated was published in 2021. In 2019 she was keynote speaker at the International Water Lily Symposium at Giverny based on the research for her book Water Lilies and and Bory Latour-Marliac - the genius behind Monet's Water Lilies. Her RHS Herbs for the Gourmet Gardener was finalist in the 2014 Garden Media Guild Reference Book of the Year Award. Other titles include Monet at Giverny and Follies of Europe - architectural extravaganzas.
Currently consulting on creating landscapes including paths and cycle routes around a new housing development in Norfolk, drawing on its local history. She is planning a grand avenue as part of the ‘Queen’s Green Canopy’ to celebrate the royal Platinum Jubilee. Past design consultancies include Tudor-inspired gardens for a Humanist Renaissance 'journey' around Notre Dame de Calais, 16th-18th-century orchards and gardens with modern operatic borders at High House for the Royal Opera House, and the poisons planting in The Alnwick Garden.
Caroline co-presented 'Glorious Gardens' on Anglia TV and has presented several series for BBC Radio 4. Recipient of ‘The Gertrude B Foster Award for Excellence in Herbal Literature’ in 2011 and ‘The Elizabeth Crisp Rea Award’ in 2017 from the Herb Society of America.
