With a rare combination of formal botanical training and hands-on experience designing private gardens for the likes of Leo Schofield and Paul Keating, Michael McCoy knows gardens. He is a garden designer, author, broadcaster, speaker and obsessive home gardener, and is also a regular contributor to Your Garden, Gardening Australia and The Age. Michael has designed gardens all over Australia as well as overseas. His first book, Michael McCoy's Garden, was published in 2000.