Meet the gardeners

Flower farmer and florist Rachel Siegfried reveals how a passion for pottery has led to her designing and throwing vases for her seasonally grown blooms

The deputy director and head of science at Oxford Botanic Garden on his early obsession with squirting cucumbers, his detailed botanic art and clambering over cliff edges

A trainee gardener at London’s Inner Temple Garden, Dylan loves spontaneity in planting and billowing borders

Garden designer and TV presenter Adam Frost on the year that changed his attitude to life, the book that came out of it and what he’s up to next

Our resident botanist Dr James Compton talks about his new collaboration with Hans Walter Lack and Martin Callmander

The sweet pea and dahlia breeder on his early love of breeding, the excitement of seeing dahlias in the wild and finding the missing slice of the sweet pea colour spectrum

Flower farmer Roisin is owner of Verde Flower Co, based in Newcastle-Upon- Tyne, and is currently establishing the British Cut Flower Association.

Discover all about Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club, the new season that focuses on gardening on ITV1

To mark International Women's Day, we round up some of the top women garden designers working in the UK today

Garden designer and influencer Henry Agg is a fresh face on the daytime gardening show - here's all you need to know about him

Landscape designer Jinny Blom picks the 50 plants she loves the most, from first loves, to flowers great for a pot

Discover the new gardening channel being launched by horticulturalist Alan Titchmarsh

The enigmatic French designer, botanist, entomologist, writer and gardener on working with rather than against nature and making room for moles.

Cel Robertson of Forever Green Flower Company in Norfolk on flower farming and the best blooms to grow in your garden for cutting

The late, pioneering plantswoman Beth Chatto convinced us to find the right plant for the right place. Here, those who were influenced by her reflect on her lasting legacy.

Professional gardener Tom, aka the Drag Queen Gardener, cares for a private 90-acre estate in Warwickshire, but trades secateurs for stilettos to become his alter ego, Daisy Desire. Portrait: Andrew Montgomery

Not typically one to act on impulse, Nigel Slater wonders if more spontaneity, and stone paving, might be in order.

At his Somerset home, Hillside, designer Dan Pearson has worked sensitively with the open, sloping site to create a beautifully intricate garden with a true sense of place.

The biodynamic grower on the pains and pleasures of hard work, the joys of producing culinary ‘fairy dust’ and on being part of the bigger picture. Words: Natasha Goodfellow, Portrait: Lisa Linder

By replacing grass lawns with a relaxed mix of resilient planting, Tom Stuart-Smith has ensured this Mediterranean garden is firmly grounded in its landscape. Words: Errol Reuben Fernandes, Photographs: Richard Bloom