The judging panel
Chris Baines
Chris Baines is a horticulturist and landscape architect. He is an award-wining writer and broadcaster and an independent environmental adviser to government and to senior executives in the house building, minerals and water industries. He is on the steering committee for CABE Space, an adviser to the Lottery and vice-president of the Wildlife Trusts.
Chris Beardshaw
Chris Beardshaw caught the gardening bug at the age of four since when all he ever wanted to do was work with plants. He qualified first as a horticulturist and then as a landscape architect and was already lecturing and running his own business by the time the broadcasters came knocking on his door.
Val Bourne
Val Bourne is an organic cottage gardener with special interests in perennial plants and vegetables. A regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph, and gardening correspondent for The Oxford Times, she contributes to many magazines including The Garden and The English Garden. GWG member.
Clive Boursnell
Clive Boursnell is a professional photographer of gardens, landscapes, people, portraits architecture, and, he says, the world. His education was unusual and included classical ballet, working as a woodman, farmhand, miner and prospector and a professional mountaineer in Canada. Since the early 1990s, he has concentrated on garden photography for all the national newspapers and lecturing. GWG member.
Fiona Bradley
Fiona Bradley is a designer working at RBG Kew. She graduated from the London College of Printing in 1989 and after a short period freelancing, stepped into temporary shoes at Kew, and has been there ever since. In 2001 she was promoted to Head of Media Resources. Her main hobby is sheepdog trialling, and is Chairman of the Surrey Sheepdog Society.
Tim Briercliffe
Tim Briercliffe is Director of Business Development at the HTA with responsibility for business initiatives, including business improvement schemes, training awards, market information, lean manufacturing, and many other developments. He co-ordinates policy discussions with government (especially DEFRA) and he has developed an industry strategy and action plan for what the production industry needs to do to meet the challenges it faces.
Rosemary Campbell-Preston
Rosemary Campbell-Preston is a horticulturist, and for 15 years has been consultant for the garden centre group, Capital Gardens, including production of magazine and editorial consultant for its gardening website. She is Chairman of the European Gardens Scholarships and assessor of student projects. Course director at The English Gardening School, for the diploma course in Plants & Plantsmanship and Advanced Plantsmanship.
Paul Evans
Paul Evans is a freelance writer and broadcaster. He writes regularly for The Guardian as a country diarist and contributes feature articles on conservation, biodiversity and landscape issues for The Guardian and environmental periodicals. He is a presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme Nature. He has been conservation director of Plantlife - the wild plant charity.
Helen Fickling
Helen Fickling grew up in South Africa, and moved into photo-journalism working closely with foreign press agencies to print and process documentary material on the Rhodesian conflict. In 1991, she made the break and returned to her true vocation - shooting reportage and editorial material for numerous UK and foreign publications. She is a photographic judge for the Royal Horticultural Society. GWG member.
Mike Fitt
Mike Fitt trained with London’s Royal Park and was one of the early Parks’ apprentices. He rose through the ranks, eventually becoming Deputy Chief Executive, responsible for all of the Royal Parks throughout London and the Home Counties. He retired last year and has moved to the Isle of Wight. In retirement, he’s Chief Archivist and Chair of the newly formed Royal Parks Guild.
Catherine Hayward
Catherine Hayward is a horticulturist with a degree in biological sciences. She has been a researcher for Carol Klein's TV programme Real Gardens on Channel 4. Currently, her main interest is enthnobotany and she travels all over the world in search of her science. She also lectures at Writtle College and the English Gardening School.
Christopher Holliday
Christopher Holliday writes for national magazines such as The English Garden, Country Homes & Interiors and BBC Homes & Antiques. He has held a national collection of phormiums and is particularly keen on exotic plants, long-flowering perennials and grasses. He has been a garden designer in the north-west since 1991, and is also a garden tour guide. GWG member.
Erica Hunnigher
Erica Hunnigher is the sole author and co-author of many gardening titles with such names as Christopher Lloyd, Carol Klein and Jonathan Buckley. Her day job is as an agent, executive editor, consultant and packager. GWG member and former member of the Committee.
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson is Director of Scotsdale of Cambridge, responsible for all growing aspects of plants, including staff training, in-house demonstrations, lecturing, evening talks to gardening clubs and professional bodies. For the last 21 years, he has presented a weekly live gardening phone-in andpre-recorded Saturday morning Gardening Tips for the Week for BBC Radio Cambridge. GWG member.
Rodney Kiddell
Rodney Kiddell is a former Editor of the East Anglian Daily Times and Evening Star, Ipswich, and a former staff Sub-editor with Express Newspapers, London. He has also worked for an internet company as Content Editor for various websites, produced scripts and commentary for videos, and edited a computer magazine.
Tricia Knibbs
Having studied Economics, Law and Computing for her degree, Tricia followed a career in Computing Systems. She has worked in the agrochemical industry for 21 years. During that time she has held several positions from Analyst Programmer to Data Centre Manager in the UK. She is now part of the European Team supporting the financial systems of a Multi-National Organisation.
Andrew Lane
Andrew Lane has been broadcasting, on both sides of the microphone, for more than 30 years. Having started with a thorough training at the BBC, he went on to work overseas for the British Forces Broadcasting Service before returning to the BBC as an Announcer, Newsreader and Presenter. These days, as Manager of the BBC's Weather Centre, he does his best to get inside information to help fellow gardeners - and always gets the blame when the forecast goes wrong!
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson is a photographer whose photographs encompass all aspects of gardening. His picture library is filed under three main headings - plant portraits, named gardens and garden features. Colour is a special passion for him. GWG member.
Tony Lord
Tony Lord was Gardens Adviser for the National Trust until 1989, before going freelance and working as a horticultural author and photographer. He was sole editor of The Plant Finder for its first 10 editions (1987-1996) and is now Consultant Editor in its current incarnation as The RHS Plant Finder. He also acts as technical consultant and editor, dealing with books on plants and gardens for numerous publishers.
Kirsty Maclean
Kirsty Maclean graduated in English and Media in 2000 and joined The English Garden magazine’s editorial team two years later working her way up to her current position of Senior Sub-editor. Kirsty won the GWG 2006 New Journalist of the Year for her first feature on An Cala -a garden on the remote island of Seil on the west coast of Scotland where she was brought up.
Steve Mitchell
Steve Mitchell spent 10 years as an agricultural journalist and editor before moving into PR, and set up the John Deere Training Award for budding agricultural and horticultural journalists in 1991.
Anthea Morton-Saner
Anthea Morton-Saner spent 33 years at Curtis Brown where she became a Director specialising in gardening books. The very first garden writer she looked after was CC Vyvyan. Since then she says she has been privileged to represent some marvellous writers and gardeners, and from them and their books she has learnt a great deal.
Reg Moule
Reg Moule trained at Pershore College and now is a consultant to the Hurrans Garden Centre chain in the Midlands. He is resident gardening expert for BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Gloucester and formerly a live phone-in on BBC Radio 2, He was a presenter of Gardeners' Diary on ITV, and now currently supports horticultural news on BBC Midlands Today. GWG member.
Jo O’Brien-Gourlay
Jo O’Brien-Gourlay is Editorial Director and co-founder of Circle Publishing - Dive magazine, Geographical and CAN for Christian Aid. A journalist for 23 years, she has written for The Observer magazine, The Telegraph magazine, Harpers & Queen, the Daily Express, London Evening Standard, the Mail on Sunday newspaper and other national magazines and newspapers.
Gordon Radley
Gordon Radley is an experienced television presenter. Until recently he was a news anchor on Sky News, and formerly at TV South and Anglia Television. He has now progressed into media training, developing programmes for major UK corporations. He has entered the gardening world to make several gardening videos with Steve Bradley and Periwinkle Productions.
Edwina Robarts
Edwina Robarts is the National Gardens Scheme County Organiser for Hertfordshire. She has opened the garden that she created for the last 25 years.
Geoff Stebbings
Geoff Stebbings trained at Kew Gardens and was a Head Gardener before his career as a garden writer. He writes regularly for many garden magazines and has written five books and has contributed to others. He is a member of the Bayer Garden Roadshow Panel and Associate Editor of Garden Answers magazine.
Nigel Taylor
Nigel Taylor is Curator of Horticulture & Public Education at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. His specific hobbies, within a broad interest in gardening, are dwarf pyramid fruit trees and vegetables. He was a key player in the team which secured World Heritage Site status for RBG Kew in 2003.
Ken Turner
Ken Turner, horticulturist, lectured at Hadlow College for 20 years. He's currently a member of Lantra's Production Horticulture Industry Group, the HTA and IOH Education and Training Committees and the RHS Education and Qualification Policy Board. Also an Examiner for the RHS Diploma, and the HTA Retail Awards, and a judge for South and South East in Bloom.
Jessica Walton
Jessica Walton is an experienced picture editor and creative visual researcher. She has commissioned some of the world’s leading photographers in interiors, lifestyles, landscape design and architecture.
David Wheeler
David Wheeler founded the literary gardening journal Hortus in 1987 and contributes regularly to Country Life, The Garden and Horticulture. His books include Over the Hills from Broadway, Images of Cotswold Gardens and Panoramas of English Gardens. He lives at Bryan's Ground (where his garden is open to the public) in north-west Hertfordshire.
Chris Young
Chris Young is Deputy Editor of The Garden. Previously he was Editor of the Garden Design Journal, and has a passion for gardens and the creation of space. He has an in-built love of gardens, gardening and plants, and is keen to promote this topic to as many people as possible. He believes outside space, whether public or private, is crucial for the well-being of individuals.
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