Tim Richardson

Tim Richardson is a landscape historian and critic and the author of more than 20 books including The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia (2024), Sissinghurst (2020), Oxford College Gardens (2015), English Gardens in the 20th Century (2005) and The Arcadian Friends: The Makers of the English Landscape Garden (2006). This last formed the basis for his online course on English landscape history which is still taught via Oxford University's continuing education department. His next book (published this autumn) is an expanded edition of The Landscape of Man by Geoffrey Jellicoe. As a journalist he has been gardens editor at Country Life and a long-standing columnist in the Daily Telegraph. Tim was founder-director of the Chelsea Fringe Festival (2012-23).