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Penelope Hobhouse is one of gardening's brightest stars. She is holder of the Royal Horticultural Society's Victorian Medal of Honour and the Garden Writers' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, and her garden designs throughout Europe and the United States, as well as her authoritative books, include Colour in Your Garden, Garden Style, Plants in Garden History and The Story of Gardening, have brought her international acclaim. She is an associate editor of Gardens illustrated and an accomplished teacher and lecturer. In 2000 and 2001 she led groups of gardeners and garden historians in Iran and made further research trips in 2002 to visit the gardens featured in Gardens of Persia.