Richard Rosenfeld became a freelance journalist after working in publishing for many years. He was voted Garden Writer of the Year in 1993 by the Guild of Garden Writers, having whetted his appetite by visiting gardens in Mexico, India, and Argentina. He has written seven books and been a regular contributor to The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Express and Daily Mail. He has designed gardens in Italy, America and England, and lives at the foot of the South Downs in West Sussex where he is converting a four-acre field into an arboretum.