RHS The Urban Gardener

Matt James is a garden designer, broadcaster and senior lecturer teaching on horticulture degree programmes at Duchy College, Cornwall, where he also runs an HND in Garden & Landscape Design. This follows five years teaching on the renowned Garden Design degree course at University College, Falmouth (now Falmouth University).

Channel 4's The City Gardener introduced Matt to the gardening public; the series was later broadcast around the globe. Two series about urban garden design in the US soon followed. Matt continues to make regular appearances on television and radio, including BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time and the forthcoming BBC series Great British Garden Revival.

Matt's previous three books include The City Garden Bible and he has also written widely for many publications in garden design and gardening. Matt has won awards for his design work and continues to run a design practice based in Cornwall, working in the UK and abroad.

Marianne Majerus is one of the world's finest garden photographers. Born in Luxembourg and based in London, she is a regular contributor to many national and international publications, including House & Garden, Gardens Illustrated, Country Life, the RHS's journal The Garden, The Times, the Guardian and Gardenia.

She has won numerous awards for her work, including International Garden Photographer of the Year in 2010, and was voted Garden Photographer of the Year in 2011 by the Garden Media Guild.