Graham Rice trained at Kew and is an award-winning horticultural author. He has written regularly for BBC Gardeners' World magazine, The Garden, been gardening columnist for The Observer and the Evening Standard, and contributed to a wide range of other newspapers and magazines. He has published over twenty books including Hardy Perennials and, with Christopher Lloyd, Garden Flowers from Seed and is Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Perennials. Graham is a member of a number of Royal Horticultural Society committees and gardens in both Northamptonshire and Pennsylvania.