Alice Bowe

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Alice Bowe
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Bowe in 2009
BornSeptember 1980 (age 41)
Redhill, Surrey, England
Occupation Garden designer, broadcaster, and journalist
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Alice Bowe is an English garden designer and columnist for The Times . [1]

Bowe grew up in Dorking, Surrey before moving to the small village of Osgathorpe in Leicestershire at the age of 9.

After schooling at Loughborough High School in the East Midlands, Bowe trained in fine art at the Ruskin, Oxford University. She completed graduate studies in garden design and landscape architecture at the Oxford College of Garden Design.

Bowe was the winner of the BT Essence of an Entrepreneur award 2006 [2] and a finalist in the Young Entrepreneur of the Year category at the Startups Awards in 2005. [3]

Bowe features as a presenter on the BBC's RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009 website. [4]

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  2. "Startups webinars – real-time, live and interactive business seminars". Archived from the original on 9 October 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2008.
  3. "Startups Awards 2007". Archived from the original on 29 September 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2008.
  4. West, Ellen. "BBC - Chelsea Flower Show 2011 - Coverage: TV" . Retrieved 6 March 2018.