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Designers, writers, ecologists, gardeners and photographers — the people behind our books on plants, places and the making of gardens.

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Hortvs, Hilden · photograph: Kristijan Matic

Andreas Thon

Professor at Hochschule Geisenheim. Natural-pool research and practice.

Arit Anderson

Garden designer and BBC presenter. Writes on the climate-conscious garden.

Dan Pearson

Landscape designer; founder of Dan Pearson Studio and the Hillside garden in Somerset.

Elaine K. Perry

Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Newcastle University; founder of Dilston Physic Garden.

Henrik Sjöman

Scientific Curator at Gothenburg Botanical Garden; researcher of trees for urban climates.

Herbert Wurth

Austrian chemist turned mushroom grower; co-founder of the Waldviertler Pilzgarten.

Ian Miller

Scythesman, agroecologist and homesteader near Decorah, Iowa.

James Golden

Garden maker and writer; creator of Federal Twist in western New Jersey.

James Hewetson-Brown

Founder of Wildflower Turf; pioneer of soil-less wildflower meadow systems.

Jimi Blake

Irish plantsman; creator of Hunting Brook Gardens in the Wicklow Mountains.

Kenton Seth

Colorado-based garden designer specialising in crevice gardens, drought-tolerant natives and meadows.

Kevin Philip Williams

Manager of Horticulture at Denver Botanic Gardens; naturalistic gardener of dry, dynamic landscapes.

Maayke de Ridder

Dutch garden and landscape photographer working from the Netherlands.

Magdalena Wurth

Austrian agricultural scientist and second-generation mushroom grower.

Michael Allaby

British science writer; author of over a hundred books on ecology, weather and the natural world.

Michael Guidi

Manager of Horticulture Research Programs at Denver Botanic Gardens; ecologist of temperate shrublands.

Midori Shintani

Head gardener of the Tokachi Millennium Forest, Hokkaido.

Nicolette Perry

Pharmacognosist; Director of Dilston Physic Garden and researcher of plants for the brain.

Nigel Dunnett

Professor of Planting Design and Urban Horticulture, University of Sheffield. Olympic Park, Barbican, King's Cross.

Noel Kingsbury

Writer, designer and commentator at the heart of the naturalistic planting movement.

Olivier Filippi

Pioneer of dry-climate gardening; Mediterranean nurseryman near the Étang du Thau.

Paul Spriggs

Rock gardener and crevice-garden builder based in Victoria, British Columbia.

Philip Oostenbrink

Head Gardener at Walmer Castle, Kent; holder of four National Plant Collections.

Rachel Siegfried

Cut-flower grower and florist; founder of Green and Gorgeous in South Oxfordshire.

Rory Dusoir

Head gardener, designer and writer; chronicler of the Oudolf Gardens at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

Roy Lancaster

Plantsman, plant-hunter and broadcaster; first Curator of the Hillier Arboretum and Vice President of the RHS.

Tamar Galstyan

Armenian botanist, photographer and field guide to the flora of the Caucasus.

Wolfram Kircher

Professor of plant ecology at Hochschule Anhalt, Bernburg; researcher of perennial mixtures and natural swimming pools.