Draft:Leigh Johnstone

Leigh Timothy Johnstone (born 26 May 1988) is a British influencer, garden designer, author and mental health campaigner, who goes by the name The Beardy Gardener. He found success on Instagram, during the COVID-19 pandemic where he created popular videos based on his experience of mental health struggles, which encouraged people to start gardening in order to improve their own mental health. A former actor and theatre director he changed careers shortly after the pandemic where he said that it was gardening that had saved his life. He has featured on the BBC gardening series Gardeners' World and has presented at several Royal Horticultural Society shows.