Richard Bowman tells how anyone can follow their passion to create the garden of their dreams

The garden designer and TV presenter who is campaigning to make a metre matter

First plant love The first plant I bought was an Iceberg rose. I went through a phase of being snooty about roses, but I love them now, especially species and old roses. Biggest inspiration My father.

INTERVIEW

The founder of White House Farm Garden and Arboretum in Kent on his enduring love of woody plants and hopes for the future I grew up amid rolling farmland, surrounded by birds, flowers and trees, and

Do you still feel in need of a challenge? Or have you been gardening so long that you know your plot inside out – along with what will grow in it and what will steadfastly refuse to budge – and are co