Gardens in China

Peter Valder, educated at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge, is a retired botanist with a lifelong interest in gardens and gardening. He has also been involved in the popularising of plants, gardens and horticulture in general, making appearances on radio and television, lecturing, and writing for magazines. As well as this, his enthusiasm for his family's garden in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales led him to travel extensively in South-east Asia to collect plants suited to Australian conditions. He first visited China in 1980, and between 1994 and 2000 has made nine further visits, principally to see and photograph gardens and garden plantsValder, Peter is the author of 'Gardens in China' with ISBN 9780881925555 and ISBN 0881925551.