Authors

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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

Michael Allaby

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

Author of Plant Love

Arit Anderson

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

Co-author of The Essential Tree Selection Guide

Jimi Blake

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

Co-author of A Beautiful Obsession

Nigel Dunnett

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

Author of Naturalistic Planting Design

Rory Dusoir

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

Author of Planting the Oudolf Gardens at Hauser & Wirth Somerset

Olivier Filippi

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

Author of Bringing the Mediterranean into your Garden · Co-author of Planting Design for Dry Gardens

Tamar Galstyan

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

James Golden

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

Author of The View from Federal Twist

Michael Guidi

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

Co-author of Shrouded in Light

James Hewetson-Brown

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

Author of How to Make a Wildflower Meadow

Noel Kingsbury

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

Author of Gardens Under Big Skies · Co-author of A Beautiful Obsession

Wolfram Kircher

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

Co-author of How to Build a Natural Swimming Pool

Roy Lancaster

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

Author of Roy Lancaster: My Life with Plants

Ian Miller

Scythesman, agroecologist and homesteader near Decorah, Iowa.

Author of The Scything Handbook

Philip Oostenbrink

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

Author of The Jungle Garden

Dan Pearson

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

Co-author of Tokachi Millennium Forest

Elaine K. Perry

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

Co-author of Botanical Brain Balms

Nicolette Perry

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

Co-author of Botanical Brain Balms

Maayke de Ridder

Dutch garden and landscape photographer working from the Netherlands.

Photographer of Gardens Under Big Skies

Kenton Seth

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

Co-author of The Crevice Garden

Midori Shintani

Head gardener of the Tokachi Millennium Forest, Hokkaido.

Co-author of Tokachi Millennium Forest

Rachel Siegfried

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

Author of The Cut Flower Sourcebook

Henrik Sjöman

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

Paul Spriggs

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