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STEPHANIE MAHON is an award-winning gardening writer and editor of Gardens Illustrated. She has written regular features for The Telegraph, Country Living, Home and Gardens, The Guardian, and The Sunday Times, among others, and is a two-time winner of Journalist of the Year by the Garden Media Guild. She is also the author of Wild Gardens (National Trust Books, 2022), Grow Pruning & Training, Grow Herbs and Grow Bulbs (all DK).

JOHN CAMPBELL is a photographer and film maker specialising in gardens and landscapes. He is the photographer behind Buckingham Palace: A Royal Garden (Royal Collections Trust, 2021), Mounton House (Lund Humphries, 2022) and his work has featured in Country Life, Country Living, Country Homes & Interiors, The English Garden, RHS The Garden magazine and Gardens Illustrated.

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Celebrate Britain and Ireland’s most imaginative gardens—and the remarkable people who created them.  
 
Stephanie Mahon, editor of Gardens Illustrated, and award-winning landscape photographer John Campbell step inside the private worlds of artists, writers, designers, and makers whose gardens are as distinctive as their work. 
 
Among the featured tastemakers are: 

• Nigel Slater, whose layered Highbury garden offers woodland calm in the heart of London. 
• Matthew Rice, the artist who carved a moat around his medieval Oxfordshire home and grows vegetables with theatrical flair. 
• Sarah Price, the celebrated designer whose Welsh garden is both experimental and deeply personal. 
• Pioneering professionals pushing boundaries in design and ecology, from Charlie Harpur at Knepp to Jonny Bruce at Prospect Cottage.

From city courtyards to wild country plots, formal spaces to naturalistic retreats, each garden reflects a unique vision shaped by its creator’s passions. Discover how these outdoor sanctuaries feed creativity, and how artistry and horticulture combine to produce spaces of extraordinary beauty. 
 
The Creative Gardener is a journey through gardens that marry imagination with nature—a book for anyone who loves gardens, artistry, and the stories that connect them. 

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Introduction
    
ALISON JENKINS    
NIGEL SLATER     
SARAH PRICE 
JONNY BRUCE 
DECLAN BUCKLEY 
CHARLIE HARPUR     
KAORI TATEBAYASHI 
JIMI BLAKE 
MARTHA KREMPEL 
JENNY BARNES 
JOSHUA SPARKES 
KYLA LA GRANGE 
RACHEL SIEGFRIED    
JOHN LITTLE 
ROSANNA MORRIS 
STEPH WILSON & TOM RAPLEY    
MONIQUE & SIMON GUDGEON 
ALICE VINCENT 
DEAN CHARLTON 
ERROL REUBEN FERNANDES 
CHARLOTTE MOLESWORTH
KATY MERRINGTON
MATTHEW RICE 
BEX PARTRIDGE 
FARRAH STORR 
MATT COLLINS
WILL TOMSON

Index 
Acknowledgments    
About the author and photographer