About the Author

Richard Bird has been gardening since childhood and currently maintains a large garden where his abiding passion for plants is very evident. He has contributed to numerous publications and has been magazine editor for Focus on Plants, The Hardy Plant, Alpine Gardening and the Alpine Garden Society's magazine Bulletin. Jackie Matthews has contributed to and edited many gardening books, including reference manuals. She lives in the Suffolk countryside where she is able to indulge her passion for wildlife-friendly gardening and to grow herbs and vegetables organically. Andrew Mikolajski is an established gardening expert, consultant and best-selling author. He edited the RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers and the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening and has written many gardening titles, including a number of the New Plant Library series, published by Southwater.