Katherine Swift a year with Lindsay Bousfield, independent rose grower Diana Ross the garden at St Nicholas, Yorkshire Simon Dorrell Hadspen Gardens in Somerset in autumn Tim Longville two gardening doctors, number two, Tommy Horder Martin Wood Southern GraceÍ (part one of Nancy Lancaster and her gardens) Belinda Stewart Cox on Sam Popham and his trees in Sri Lanka Peter Parker Christopher Smart, another mad poet in the garden William Grant An Essayist in the Garden (from California) On My Bedside Table, by Mirabel Osler. Book reviews by Andrew Lawson, Stephen Lacey, Rosemary Verey, Deborah Kellaway, Richard Mabey and Noel Kingsbury.