The Faces of Gardeners' World

Gay Search, photographed in 1996

One of the country's most popular female television gardeners, Gay Search is renowned for her ideas that provide busy people with instant gardens. Gay has devised and presented gardening shows for BBC2 since 1988 and is best-known for her work with Geoff Hamilton, with whom she presented Gardeners' World for six years. She is a prolific writer and is recently collaborated with long-time friend Delia Smith on Delia's Kitchen Garden, a great read for anyone who's interested in good food and keen to try their hand at growing their own.
Books by Gay Search: The Impatient Gardener, Front Gardens, Gardening From Scratch and Gardening Without A Garden.

Antony Henn, photographed in 1996

Antony Henn's life has always been surrounded by plants and gardening, having worked in his family's nursery business since 1977. He travelled extensively throughout Europe and studied horticulture before returning to set up his own garden design company, Gardens For Life in Hatfield, Herts. He also owns a TV production company, Henhouse Productions which he started to fulfil his dream of producing his own gardening programmes. Antony has been involved in several gardening shows from having his own gardening makeover slot on BBC1 to Gardeners' World.
Books by Antony Henn: Miracle Makeovers With The Garden Guru
Related links: Henhouse Productions, Gardens For Life

Bob Flowerdew, photographed in 1996

Bob Flowerdew comes from a farming family and has carved out a place for himself as Britain's favourite organic gardener. With a financial management degree under his belt, he travelled the world learning about different farming methods before returning to the UK to tend a plot. Here he grows organically almost every fruit and vegetable possible in our climate including bananas, pineapples and guavas and has proved that all this could be done single-handed and in one's spare time! Bob runs a consultancy landscape service, teaches at agricultural college and is President of the Norfolk group of the Soil Association. He presented the Channel 4 series Muck And Magic the BBC's Gardeners' World and is on the Royal Horticultural Society’s approved panel of lecturers.
Books by Bob Flowerdew: Bob Flowerdew's Complete Book Of Companion Gardening, Bob Flowerdew's Complete Fruit Book and Bob Flowerdew's Organic Bible.
Related links: Soil Association

Toby Buckland, photographed in 1997

Toby's love for gardening is evident in all his work, whether it's writing, TV, or barrowing down the lane between his large Cambridge garden and his allotment. He has a first class degree in landscape management, but Toby is known for his light-hearted, hands-on approach to growing and landscaping. Toby has presented and guest-presented for many garden series like Real Wrecks, Home Front In The Garden, RHS Garden Challenge, Weed It & Reap and of course, Gardeners' World. Toby has designed and built a garden for poet laureate, Andrew Motion and was briefly a gardener to novelist Tom Sharpe.
Books by Toby Buckland: The Garden Makeover Book and The Times Small Garden.