Ambra Edwards and Charlie Hopkinson explore, in words and pictures, the lives, visions and achievements of fourteen very different head gardeners: Ned Price of The Weir, Herefordshire; Fergus Garrett, Great Dixter, East Sussex; Paul Pulford, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; Mick Evans, Packwood House, Warwickshire; Beatrice Krehl, Waltham Place, Berkshire; Troy Scott Smith, Sissinghurst Castle, Kent; Lucille Savin, Merton College, Oxford; Alistair Clark, the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Dumfries; Carol Sales, Headley Court, Surrey; Andrew Woodall, Broughton Grange, Oxfordshire; Michael Walker, Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire; Martin Ogle, Lowther Castle, Cumbria; and Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain, West Dean Gardens, West Sussex.

Author Biography

Ambra Edwards is a journalist with a special interest in garden history, and the people, passions and often surprising stories that lie behind our gardens. Three times voted the Garden Media Guild's Garden Journalist of the Year (2006, 2009 and 2015), she is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the Telegraph, Gardens Illustrated, Hortus and Country Living. She lives in Dorset. Charlie Hopkinson is a portrait and landscape photographer specializing in the arts, gardening and landscape. As well as being published in magazines and books worldwide, his work is exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery. Charlie Hopkinson lives in London