Tim Smit was born in 1954 and educated at Durham University. As well as the Lost Gardens of Heligan, he is the prime mover behind the hugely successful and world famous Eden Project, the major millennium-funded ecological/horticultural venture near St Austell.
The Tremayne family began a garden in the 1880s, creating a 150-acre sub-tropical garden in the heart of Cornwall. Tim Smit and his partner John Nelson uncovered the original garden and have wonderfully restored it to its initial splendour. (Kirkus UK)