Visionary

Claire Takacs is a freelance photographer who has specialised in capturing gardens and landscapes around the world for the past twenty years. Her work features regularly in international magazines, including Gardens Illustrated. She has contributed to many books, and this is her fifth title, which she has photographed exclusively. Previous books include: the highly acclaimed and successful Dreamscapes (Hardie Grant), which she also authored, Australian Dreamscapes (Hardie Grant), Windcliff; A Story of People, Plants, and Gardens by Dan Hinkley (Timber Press) and Wild: The Naturalistic Garden, with text by Noel Kingsbury (Phaidon). Giacomo Guzzon is a landscape architect and expert in planting design. He has taught planting design at several schools and universities, such as Sheffield, Greenwich and KLC, and currently serves as Head of Planting Design at the international landscape architecture firm Gillespies in London. He contributes to conferences and publications and has spoken in Hong Kong, the US, and throughout Europe. He is currently pursuing a PhD in plant science at the Technical University of Berlin.