Juliet Nicholas is based in Christchurch and has featured in many lifestyle magazines and in several books, including our own Flourish (with Barb Rogers) and In the Company of Gardeners (with Sue Allison). Rosemary Barraclough is an award-winning magazine journalist, who spent nearly a decade working for NZ House & Garden. She particularly loves writing about gardeners, who are a generous, likeable, down-to-earth lot, she says. Rosemary's happy place is her bach garden in Northland, where natives, hibiscus and frangipani grow at an incredible rate.