Matt Collins

Matt is a garden and landscape writer, and Head Gardener at the Garden Museum in London. Matt contributes articles on horticulture, nature and travel for publications including The Guardian , RHS's The Garden and Hortus. He writes a monthly column for the Daily Telegraph where our garden plants come from. Matt has several books published internationally by Pavilion Books. Matt’s interests lie at the intersection between cultivated and natural environments; his latest book, Forest, Walking Among Trees (Pavilion) traces an intercontinental pathway between British trees and their wild-wooded counterparts, and was shortlisted for an Edward Stanford Travel Writing award. Matt is a member of the Garden Media Guild.

These tender foliage plants embody a new, light-hearted and exuberant approach to gardening. Garden writer Matt Collins is your guide to how to grow begonias, when to plant them and chooses his favourite varieties to grow. Photographs Jason ingramShow more

Matt Collins

This London garden by Dan Pearson is a design masterclass in making a small space feel bigger

Meet Pippa Greenwood – gardening's agony aunt with a fetish for pests and diseases

This easy-grow 'unicorn' plant likes shade and poor soil, and flowers in winter

War of the roses: which new book about the history, lore and love of roses is better?

Exotic planting brings Californian style to Adam Sykes's London garden

Begonias: the best for your garden and how to plant

Matt Collins

This London garden by Dan Pearson is a design masterclass in making a small space feel bigger

Meet Pippa Greenwood – gardening's agony aunt with a fetish for pests and diseases

This easy-grow 'unicorn' plant likes shade and poor soil, and flowers in winter

War of the roses: which new book about the history, lore and love of roses is better?

Exotic planting brings Californian style to Adam Sykes's London garden

Begonias: the best for your garden and how to plant

A modern meadow garden