Emma Townshend writes on general arts subjects for magazines and newspapers including The Times and The Observer, and is The Independent on Sunday's gardening columnist.

"You're looking at a minimum of £50,000 to £100,000," says Tim Richardson, a gardening columnist for The Daily Telegraph.

They are supposed to be met at the train station by Whimple (Alec Guinness), a gardening columnist on the paper, but they miss each other.

Ms. Buchan trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and is the main gardening columnist for The Sunday Telegraph of London.

Since 1981, he had been the gardening columnist for the Montreal Gazette and has been a part of the radio show Radio Noon on CBC Radio One.

Rayford Clayton Reddell, a gardening columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, also owns Garden Valley Ranch, a farm in Petaluma, Calif., whose major crop is roses for the cut flower trade.

A. I don t usually write about gardens, mostly because our section has such terrific gardening columnists in place.

Allen Lacy, a writer of gardening books and a former gardening columnist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, started Homeground, a 16-page quarterly newsletter for gardeners, in 1993.

The syndicated gardening columnist, who appears in such publications as The New York Post and The Palm Beach Daily News, is planning to bring out a line of clothing for horticultural enthusiasts by next spring.

Another volunteer is George E. Schoellkopf of Washington, a former gardening columnist for The Newtown Bee, a weekly newspaper, who is writing a gardening book.