Caroline Holmes lectures regularly for the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge; for The Arts Society throughout Britain, in New Zealand, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain; for The Plant School, Noble Caledonia, Ciceroni Travel in France and Italy as well as Road Scholar and tours sponsored by the US Institute of Classical Architecture and Art in France. In 2019 she was keynote speaker at the International Water Lily Symposium at Giverny based on the research for her last book Water Lilies and and Bory Latour-Marliac - the genius behind Monet's Water Lilies.
She is the author of 11 books, with her latest to be published in late 2020. 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. 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.
