ANDREW LAWSON  is widely regarded as England's leading garden photographer. He has provided the photographs for many books, including Good Planting by Rosemary Verey, Penelope Hobhouse on Gardening, Designing Gardens (9780711217577) by Arabella Lennox Boyd, Little Sparta  (9780711220850) by Jessie Sheeler, The Garden at Highgrove  by HRH Prince of Wales, and The English Garden  (9780711226388)by Ursula Buchan and The New English Garden (9780711232709) also by Tim Richardson. He holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Medal for Photography and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Garden Writer's Guild. His garden in Oxfordshire is open under the National Gardens Scheme. Tim Richardson is a writer who specializes in garden and landscape design and history. He has been gardens editor at Country Life , and landscape editor at Wallpaper* magazine, and was founding editor of both the award-winning gardens magazine New Eden and Country Life Gardens . He now contributes mostly to the Daily Telegraph , House and Garden , Gardens Illustrated and Country Life . He is the author of Phaidon's The Garden Book , Vanguard Landscapes Gardens of Martha Schwartz , English Gardens of the 20th Century and Arcadian Friends: the Makers of the English Landscape Garden .

He is also editor of Vista: the Culture and Politics of Gardens (Frances Lincoln).