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.

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

Who do you live with and where? I live in west London with my husband Owain, our children, Wilf, 10, and Willow, nine, and our cats, Zola and Ziggy. What kind of English home do you have? Our house is

It took Sarah Biddulph a while to work up to tackling the long borders at Rodmarton Manor. Not just because of their sheer size, but also because they are the centrepiece of an Arts & Crafts garden th