After training as a biographer and landscaper,Bndicte Boudassou devoted herself to journalism and writing books on gardening. She has collaborated for many years with various consumer magazines and has published numerous gardening and nature titles for adults and children. Charlne Tong is an artist who worked as an illustrator for children books and designer of sceneries for cartoons. Her hobbies are rather simple: reading, knitting, hiking, traveling, and gardening. Plants are for her an inexhaustible source of inspiration so, after ten years dedicated to an artistic career, she moved into a new inspiring career in horticulture.