Stephanie Mahon is the editor of the highly regarded Gardens Illustrated magazine. She is also an award-winning writer, specialising in lifestyle content, including design, landscape, architecture, food and travel. Stephanie works freelance for newspapers and magazines including The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Homes & Gardens, and Country Living. She lives in Monmouthshire, United Kingdom.
From the orchid-studded wild flower meadows of Stowe and the artful gardens that Dan Pearson recently designed around the picturesque ruins of Lowther Castle, to the tree fern glades of Trengwainton in Cornwall, the exotic “jungle” of Glendurgan (also in Cornwall), and the “nature on steroids, visual suckerpunch” that is Bodnant, Mahon paints a vivid, immersive picture of these “wild” gardens and how they support a complex, biodiverse range of vulnerable habitats. The Irish Times