Carol Casselden is an award-winning photographer of gardens and plants. Fergus Garrett was chosen by Christopher Lloyd as his head gardener at Dixter in 1992. He worked closely with Christo until Lloyd's death in 2006. He is now Chief Executive of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, and also combines his full-time, hands-on gardening role at Dixter with writing and lecturing all over the world. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the RHS in 2015 and in 2019, the coveted RHS Victoria Medal of Honour. Christopher Lloyd (1921-2006) was one of the greatest gardeners of the 20th century and has been described as the world's finest-ever garden writer. He devoted his life to his garden at Great Dixter, and he produced some of the most influential gardening books of the last 100 years. He was make OBE in 2000 and held the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society, the Victoria Medal of Honour.