Dubbed 'the Damien Hirst of horticulture' for his boundary-pushing garden designs, TV's Diarmuid Gavin is the face of this year's Ely Flower Festival.
Robert Barker began his formal training in horticulture studying with the RHS (the Royal Horticultural Society) at Capel Manor College in Enfield, which then led to him being trained at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
The Cambridge Independent's columnist Dawn Isaac was recognised as one of the country's leading gardening writers as she was shortlisted for the Garden Media Guild Awards 2017.
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