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Biographies

Stephen Anderton

Stephen Anderton is an award-winning journalist, author, lecturer and broadcaster; he writes weekly in The Times and for many magazines.

Previously Stephen worked in the management and maintenance of historic gardens, latterly as National Gardens Manager for English Heritage, and was responsible for the restoration of the nineteenth-century gardens at Belsay Hall, Northumberland and Brodsworth Hall, Yorkshire.

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Michael Balston MA, Dip Arch, LA, RIBA, ALI

A fully qualified architect and landscape architect since the early 1970s, Michael Balston has extensive experience in landscape design from prominent urban design projects to private estates and gardens both in the UK and abroad. Since 1983, Michael has been running Balston & Company from his house and well-published garden in Wiltshire.

Michael has won numerous garden medals and awards nationally and internationally for the past 20 years culminating in the Best Garden Award at the 1999 Chelsea Show and International Prizes at Ghent in the same year. He is now a judge and member of Council for the RHS and a member of the Europa Nostra Council.

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Ian Hodgson

Ian Hodgson trained in horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, where he first became interested in garden design. He subsequently read landscape design and plant sciences, qualifying as a Landscape Architect at the University of Sheffield.

After working in the industry he became a gardening journalist working as a technical editor on titles such as Garden News, Plants and Gardens and as editor on The Gardener.

He became editor of The Garden in 1993 and has overseen evolution of the title and the development of other aspects of the Society's publishing. Ian is passionate about expanding the purpose of gardens in society, encouraging innovation in garden design and has a particular interest in the creative use of ornamental plants.

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Corinne Julius

Corinne Julius trained as a designer before pursuing a career in journalism. She writes regularly on design and contemporary craft for the Evening Standard, as well as broadcasting on Front Row. She is a reporter on BBC Radio’s Woman’s Hour and has twice won the Garden Writer’s Guild Radio Broadcast of the Year.

 

 

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Anne Wareham

Anne Wareham, a garden writer for newspapers and garden magazines, is married to Charles Hawes, the garden photographer. They have designed and created the garden at Veddw House on the Welsh border near Monmouth. The four acre garden has a star in the Good Gardens Guide and is a Royal Horticultural Recommended Garden.

Anne has been campaigning for the past fifiteen years for a renaissance in British gardens, focusing on encouraging serious reviews of gardens and on returning gardens to their place amongst the fine arts in British culture.

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Chris Young

Chris Young has a passion for design, gardens and the creation of space. Trained in landscape architecture at the University of Gloucestershire, he has an in-built love of gardens, gardening and plants, and is keen to promote this topic to as many people as possible.

His specific interest is in garden design, especially the way places are conceived, made and lived in. He lives in Lincolnshire and is slowly making his own garden (though he admits it isn’t easy!). He is currently deputy editor of The Garden (the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society).