Victoria Summerley is a national newspaper journalist who specialises in writing about gardens and gardening. For the past 13 years she has been executive editor of The Independent. In 2010, she was the winner of the prestigious Garden Media Guild Journalist of the Year award, and she also writes an award-winning blog. Her garden in London was open under the National Gardens Scheme and was featured on BBC Gardeners' World. After 50 years of living and gardening in London, Victoria now lives in the Cotswolds, but regularly returns to the capital.

Hugo Rittson Thomas is one of the UK's leading portrait photographers. He started his career in the art world, studying at Central St.Martin's and Goldsmiths University of London, and took part in the landmark exhibition Temple of Diana alongside Tracey Emin at The Blue Gallery in 1999. Hugo lives and has a studio in London.

Marianne Majerus is one of Europe's finest garden photographers. She works on commissions across the continent and her artistic and sensitive images are widely sought-after by publishers and private clients. She has won many awards, including International Garden Photographer of the Year, and has been named Photographer of the Year by the Garden Media Guild on several occasions.

In 2018 she was named European Garden Photographer of the Year. She is a founding member of the Professional Garden Photographers' Association. She is the co-author, with Heidi Howcroft, of Garden Design: A Book of Ideas.