Hattie Klotz is a British journalist who has lived in Canada for close to 20 years. She writes regularly on food, design and interesting people doing interesting things. Married and the mother to three young girls, she grew up in a beautiful house with stunning gardens, now open to the public, created by her parents in East Sussex, England. Hattie has worked for the Evening Standard (London) and the Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa) and freelanced widely for other publications. She has written a cooking show for The Food Network and worked in the performing arts in programming and promotion. She currently serves on the board of the Ottawa International Writers Festival and chairs the annual gala for the Ottawa Art Gallery. In her free time she loves to ski, ride horses, grow vegetables, cook and run.

Leigh Clapp is a professional photographer with over 20 years experience, primarily as a garden specialist photojournalist but also with interiors and travel. She delights in discovering the tiny elements to the overall essence of a subject. Inspired by the play of light, colour and form, photography is an artistic expression and passion for capturing the frames she has always seen in the world around her. Leigh's work appears regularly in magazines, newspapers and books, both in the UK and abroad, including being gardening editor and photojournalist for Surrey Life , Kent Life, Hampshire Life and Sussex Life , photographing gardens for Period Homes and Interiors magazine, Country Life , Period Living and Gardens Illustrated ; as well as being sole photographer for a number of books, including Garden Details , Feng Shui in the Garden, The New Native Garden and the Mother and Baby Book .