Books by Thomas Wright

John Watkins has been Head of Gardens and Landscape at English Heritage since 1999, providing policy advice and technical guidance on the maintenance and management of designed landscapes and historic parks and gardens. Formerly Senior Lecturer at Hadlow College in Kent, he has worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Edinburgh and Kew, the National Trust for Scotland and the RHS at Wisley and Hyde Hall. He is on the management board of Plant Network and is a Trustee of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust. He has served as an examiner for the RHS examinations, judges at RHS shows and represents English Heritage on the Green Flag Board. Thomas Wright has managed historic landscapes for more than 40 years. A boyhood addiction to plants, gardens and Natural History led to a degree in Horticulture at Wye College in Kent. Since then his commissions have included Hampton Court Palace gardens, Chatsworth, Grimsthorpe Castle, Firle Place, Holker Hall, some National Trust gardens and other private estates and gardens in the UK, France, Italy and Austria. He has written and contributed to several books and has lectured widely in the UK and overseas. He lives in West Sussex where he can wake up to an inspirational view of the South Downs.