RHS How to Plant a Garden

A guide to using plants as a design feature, revealing the potential for a good planting scheme to transform a garden.

Matt James is a garden designer, broadcaster and senior lecturer on horticulture degree programmes at the Eden Project, Cornwall, where he also manages a respected HND in Garden & Landscape Design.
Channel 4's The City Gardener introduced Matt to the gardening public; the series was later broadcast around the globe. Two series about urban garden design in the US soon followed. Matt continues to make regular appearances on television and radio, including BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time.
Matt's previous four books include RHS The Urban Gardener (Mitchell Beazley), and he has written widely for many publications in garden design and gardening. Matt has won awards for his design work and continues to run a design practice based in Cornwall, working in the UK and abroad.