Helen Colt

Helen Colt (1882–1939) was a British newspaper columnist who was the first female gardening expert to have had a regular column in a British national newspaper. She contributed advice on gardening to the Daily Mail's women's page from 1912 to 1918.

Early life and education Helen Colt was born in Hampstead in 1882, the daughter of barrister Frederick Hoare Colt. In subsequent articles, Colt would be referred to as the originator of the role of female jobbing gardener, thought she would later seek to quash the idea that she was the first female jobber. From February 1912 to early 1918, the Mail generally printed two articles of gardening advice written by Colt a month, generally on a Saturday and on the magazine page of the paper, as part of a wider spread on gardening.