Penelope Hobhouse is a garden writer, garden designer, garden historian, lecturer and gardener. In 1996 she hosted the Art and Practice of Gardening (with Perennial Productions) for House and Garden Television in the United States. Titles included in this collector's edition are: Roses for the Garden, Visions of Nature, Structural Elements, the Summer Garden, Nurseries & Plant Collections, Flower Gardens, Color in the Garden, the Useful Garden, the Smaller Garden, the Country Garden, Design Basics, and Planting the Bones of a Garden.