Dr. Mark Lane

Dr Mark Lane has gained recognition as a first-class garden and landscape designer, being the UK’s first garden and landscape designer to use a wheelchair, as well as the first TV gardening presenter in the UK to use a wheelchair. In 2021, Mark was nominated as Celebrity Of The Year at the National Diversity Awards. He was also named on The Shaw Trust’s Disability Power 100 List in 2023 of the UK’s most influential disabled people. In 2022, Mark was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Kent for his contributions to horticulture and media.

As a broadcaster, Mark is the gardening and plant expert on BBC One's Morning Live, and he has presented for Gardeners’ World (BBC Two) and the BBC’s coverage of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Flower and Garden Shows including Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace. Mark’s other credits include Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen (ITV), Royal Homes (Channel 5), The Weakest Link (BBC One), Pointless Celebrities (BBC One) and Celebrity Mastermind (BBC One).

Mark has had regular gardening columns in the Daily Express and the Waitrose Weekend magazines. He has also contributed to the Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Guardian, and Sunday Express, as well as House Beautiful, Country Living, Good Homes, Homes and Gardens, and BBC Gardeners’ World magazines. Mark's first book, Royal Gardens Of The World, was published by Hachette in September 2020. Mark’s new book, The Future Of Gardens, will be published in May 2025.

Mark is an ambassador for the National Trust, Melanoma Fund, Thrive, the Gardening with Disabilities Trust and Groundwork. He also won Landscape Designer Of The Year 2020 in the BUILD Architecture Awards and he was named Landscape Designer Of The Year 2020 by Global Corporate LiveWire. Mark is a member of the Society of Garden Designers (SGD).

Mark graduated from University College London with a BA (Hons) in Art History. He went on to become the Publishing Director for the Royal Institute Of British Architects (RIBA) and the Managing Editor for the leading international Arts publisher Thames & Hudson.

In 2000 Mark was in a car accident and had to have operations on his spine, which were complicated by him being born with spina bifida. Following a long rehabilitation period Mark studied garden and landscape design through an open learning course at KLC, Hampton Court.