Frank Lawley was born in Bloxwich, Staffordshire and has been known as Frank for over sixty years. Frank and his wife Marjorie have spent the past four decades rescuing Herterton House near Wallington, a long-abandoned sixteenth century farmhouse, and designing, creating and maintaining around it a new but appropriate country garden.
Val Corbett is a freelance photographer based in the Lowther Valley on the eastern fringe of the Lake District. She is well known for her garden and landscape photography which has featured in many books and magazines.
Charles Quest-Ritson is a UK-based writer and journalist specialising in horticulture and social history.