Grace Alexander
PSYCHOLOGist · PART-TIME Gardener · FULL-TIME Anthophile
About me
My name is Grace Alexander, and I know a bit about the need for floral escapism. When I’m not packing seeds, turning a back lawn into a kitchen garden or debating the pros and cons of leaving a patch of nettles to go to seed (they give great dye colour ), I am an expert witness psychologist in the UK family courts.
The days might be a bit grim, but the weekends are filled with dogs, tea, flowers and the wondrous experience of life in a Somerset thatched cottage.
I have been gardening forever, off and on. What I lack in technical brilliance as a gardener, I make up for with experience and enthusiasm. My growing space (about a quarter of an acre, tiny) was all developed from scratch in 2013 and has been going from strength to strength ever since. It includes an orchard, a flower field, meadows and a kitchen garden.
I am now in conversation to organic status with the Soil Association, and all of the seed I sell will be certified organic from August 2026.
I don’t have hobbies, I have passions and obsessions. That means sweet peas and writing.
But I am a busy person, and I need help to make sure I don’t find gardening stressful and overwhelming. To keep the garden as a sanctuary, you need a plan.
I got stressed and overwhelmed, so I drew up the plan.
Your phone knows everything except what actually matters.
Until now.
The single most useful gardening tool has been invented.
sweet pea seed
In my garden at Malus Farm, the most glorious and gorgeous of plants grow all summer long to set seed in autumn. I harvest the seed by hand, dry it with love and care, and package it up for posting out to you, the flower lover. My seed is grown out in the open and so is hardy and adapted to normal growing conditions (most sweet pea seed you can buy elsewhere is grown under glass, in polytunnels, or in hot countries) and without pesticides or herbicides. From January 2026, all Gather seed will be certified organic.
if you would like to buy the most exquisitely packaged, beautiful seed in the world, the seed shop is open on 1 NOVEMBER.
THE STUART & ALEXANDER PODCAST
Gather at the Garden Gate.
Becca Stuart and Grace Alexander come in from the garden, put the kettle on, and talk about what they have been getting up to indoors, outdoors, and get incredibly excited about, every so often, going out out.
This isn’t just a podcast about gardening. It's about women celebrating life in the garden, flowers, each other, and taking refuge in the kitchen when it starts to pour with rain.