Rebecca Starling is an English trained farmer-florist who studied at the Royal Horticultural Society in London, the New York Botanic Gardens, the Master Gardener program and the London Flower School. She has grown flowers in places with wildly different climatic conditions, from a thatched Cambridgeshire cottage to the mountains of Switzerland, from the humid summers and cold winters of Connecticut to her current home on a flower farm on the coast of South Australia.

Christine McCabe is an expert gardener and a senior contributing editor for The Weekend Australian’s Travel + Luxury supplement. She is the author of Adelaide Hills Gardens (Thames & Hudson Australia).