Paul Urquhart

Paul Urquhart, editor of Your Garden, is an accomplished garden and travel writer with five published books to his credit. These include the ground-breaking The New Native Garden - Designing with Australian Plants, and his most recent work, a comprehensive look at design ideas for small garden spaces titled Small by Design, (due for release in August 2007). He has been contributed to most Australian lifestyle magazines and many overseas magazines, including English House and Garden and Gardens Illustrated. A passionate lover of travel and gardens, Paul once spent an three months travelling around France, Spain and Italy visiting gardens and recently undertook photographic safaris to Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and to Brazil.

'Come with me on a fascinating tour of the gardens of France starting at the wonderful Chelsea Flower Show. We’ll travel through some of my favourite French regions starting in the cosmopolitan and bustling port city of Marseille; then we’ll explore the charming countryside and towns of the Rhone Valley and the Dordogne. You’ll love, too, the fabled Loire Valley with its chateaux and the Chaumont Garden Festival, a garden show like no other – original, witty and groundbreaking. Then it’s onto Paris with its beautiful public gardens, the roses at the Bagatelle and possibly the most famous private garden in the world, Monet's beloved Giverny. You’ll love every minute. I do hope you can join me'. – Paul Urquhart.