Gordon Hayward is a nationally recognized garden writer, designer and lecturer. He wrote for Horticulture Magazine for twenty-five years and lectured with the magazine on nine of their multi-city lecture tours across America. He was a contributing editor at Fine Gardening Magazine for six years and the author of eleven books on garden design, two of which have won national awards. With his wife Mary, he has been developing a 1.5-acre garden for the past thirty years around their 240 year old home in southern Vermont. They also have a tiny garden outside their cottage in the North Cotswold Hills of England where Mary is from.