Jamie Butterworth is fast-emerging as one of the UK’s most exciting younger gardeners, cocreating the RHS Dog Garden with Monty Don OBE at the 2025 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, running a successful plant nursery, writing two books and presenting on BBC Gardeners’ World – and he’s still only 30. Amateur Gardening’s Sue Bradley first interviewed Jamie as an aspiring 18-year-old and the two recently met up again at the Garden Media Guild Awards.

Favourite garden The ‘Ditch’ at Dan Pearson and Huw Morgan’s Hillside garden captured me from my first visit. It’s the perfect encapsulation of embracing weeds, while still steering land to be biodive

When writer Sheila M Averbuch and her husband moved into their Pencaitland home in East Lothian over 20 years ago, the garden was little more than a flat upper lawn with a steep slope down to the bung

Spring is in the air already for Joe Swift , who says go wild and have some fun in your garden

Dame Mary Berry, baker, cook and keen gardener, is as happy among the plants in her plot as she is among the pots and pans in her kitchen

Butter Wakefield has spread her wings. Renowned for her beautifully detailed city gardens, she now has a five-acre, award-winning design in her portfolio. “I love our London gardens, but being able to