Bradbury, Elspeth

Picture of the author, an older white woman wearing a white sweater and blue jacket and smiling at the camera.

Elspeth Bradbury

Ronsdale books by Elspeth Bradbury:

  1. Journeys to the Nearby: A Gardener Discovers the Gentle Art of Untravelling

With a career in architecture and landscape architecture, Elspeth Bradbury has also spent much of her life as a writer, a painter and a gardener. She is the co-author of The Real Garden Road Trip, The Garden Letters and the poetry collection Is that you this is me.

For more than a decade she has volunteered at VanDusen Botanical Gardens as a Master Gardener and a Garden Guide, taught continuing education classes, and made presentations to garden clubs.

She has contributed illustrated articles to gardening magazines including Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Canadian Gardening, Gardens West, Harrowsmith and Atlantic Advocate. She has written and illustrated columns for The Beacon and in 2019 the Ferry Building Gallery presented WILD LIFE, a solo exhibition of her paintings and poetry.