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Andi Clevely has spent thirty-five years as a working gardener. After taking a degree in English at Oxford he began his gardening career on the Crown Estate at Windsor Great Park. Since then he has been employed as head gardener in private service (initially for J.B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes). He is currently responsible for managing a country estate and garden near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. His books include The Integrated Garden (Crown, NY), The Kitchen Garden (Sterling, NY), Designing Herb and Kitchen Gardens and A Year in the Garden. He also contributed to The Reader's Digest Encyclopedia of Gardening, Reader's Digest Your Garden through the Year and Collins' Complete Gardening Manual (HarperCollins). As a journalist he writes regularly for The Garden, Homes and Gardens, The Field, and BBC Gardener's World Magazine. In 2003 he won the Garden Writers' Guild Award for Practical Journalist of the Year. Steven Wooster is a distinguished photographer who specializes in gardens and plants. His photographs have appeared in numerous books and magazines, including Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden and Organic Gardening.