Holly Farrell trained at RHS Garden Wisley, where she gained the Wisley Diploma and RHS Certificates in Horticulture. Since then she has worked in gardens large and small, and written numerous books. RHS Gardening for Mindfulness was a finalist at the 2017 Garden Media Guild Awards, as was The Jam Maker's Garden. Holly is also the author of Growing Herbs (Kew Gardener's Guides), Grow Your Own Cake, RHS Happy Houseplants, RHS Miniature Garden Grower, and RHS Plants from Pips (winner, Prix PJ Redouté 2016). Get Growing is her latest in a series of titles all aimed to inspire people to get outside and take up gardening; forthcoming titles for 2020 and 2021 are Do Bees Need Weeds? (co-author) and Healing with Plants: The Chelsea Physic Garden Herbal.


Holly also regularly contributes to magazines such as The Garden, In the Moment, Breathe, The English Garden, Kitchen Garden and Teen Breathe. Her Instagram account, @hollyfarrellgarden, follows her in her own Shropshire garden and out in the countryside.

Gareth Richards is Associate Editor of The Garden magazine, a monthly publication for the RHS's 600k+ membership. He also curates and co-hosts the weekly Gardening with the RHS podcast. Gareth has a BSc (Hons) in Horticulture from Writtle University College and is a keen gardener and allotmenteer.

His many interests include a special fondness for wildlife and eco-friendly gardening, Mediterranean plants, botanising and growing unusual edibles. Gareth gardened in France, Italy and New Zealand before settling back in the UK.

He's written magazine articles for The English Garden, Garden News and The Garden and is author of two books, Do Bees Need Weeds? (with Holly Farrell, Mitchell Beazley, 2020) and RHS Weeds - The beauty and uses of 50 vagabond plants (Welbeck, 2021). He's also a contributing author to RHS Grow Your Own Veg Through the Year (Mitchell Beazley, 2025) and 1001 Plants You Must Grow Before You Die (Cassell, 2016).