Andrew Mikolajski has a busy career as a gardening author, lecturer and speaker.
Author of over 30 books, he was a horticultural adviser on the new edition of the RHS A–Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and is now an RHS judge.
Other titles include The World Encyclopedia of Apples, RHS Pruning Plant by Plant and, most recently, Permaculture.
He has contributed to Gardens Illustrated, Intelligent Life and Slate.com
He has taught garden design and RHS certificate at Warwickshire College, and garden history at the English Gardening School and is a speaker for the Historic Houses Association.
When not writing or lecturing, he can be found battling an east wind and heavy clay soil in his Northamptonshire garden.