Dr. John Page is a linguist by profession but an Alpine plant enthusiast and expert at heart. John studied Modern Languages at King's College, Cambridge, learnt Russian during his time in the Army and did his PhD in Politics. For many years, he headed up the School of Foreign Languages at the former Birmingham City University. His strategic placement of Business Course students with European companies meant he was able to enjoy many of the best Botanic Gardens when he visited his students! John has been an active member of the Alpine Garden Society since 1975 and was Secretary of the Birmingham group for 17 years. He is the AGS Online Correspondent for the History of Rock and Alpine Gardening and is an expert on the life and times of Reginald Farrer. John contributes to the RHS Yearbook Narcissus, Snowdrops and Tulips. He is the section editor for Tulips. John has written numerous articles and is a widely-travelled plant hunter and botaniser from the Rockies to Kazakhstan.

Mike Myers has had a long association with all things horticultural in the North of England, and the Harrogate area in particular. He started out as a volunteer gardener at Harlow Carr and then pursued his studies at Askham Bryan College, Leeds, and Sheffield Universities. He had a short exile in Kent to study Mycorrhizals for his Master's degree. He ran his own garden design business in Harrogate for many years alongside part-time teaching and specialist plant sales. Mike is now Head of Horticulture at Craven College in Skipton where he runs a wide range of courses for both school-leavers and adults. Mike has been a member of the Alpine Society and Hardy Plant Society for many years. He has been growing alpines since he was a teenager and is a keen and well-travelled botaniser of alpines in the wild. He has held the National Collections at various times of Anemone nemorosa, Hepaticas and Primula marginata. Mike has been collecting and growing Snowdrops for over 33 years and has over 300 varieties growing in his garden. He discovered Galanthus plicatum 'E.A.Bowles' growing at Myddleton House in 2002. Mike was asked to advise and assist with the restoration of the Aysgarth Edwardian Rock Garden in 2002.

Michael Charlesworth is professor of art history, University of Texas at Austin. An authority on landscape and the history of gardens, on photography until 1918, and on landscape drawing and painting, he is the author of Derek Jarman (Reaktion Books, 2011), Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth Century Britain and France (Ashgate, 2008), The Gothic Revival 1720-1870 (3 Vols, 2002); and The English Garden (3 Vols., 1993). His study of Farrer, The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer: Landscape, Literature, and Buddhism, which was published in 2018, is the first full-length study of his life and work and explores the connection between British modernism and Buddhism.

Man Myth and Mountains: Reginald Farrer and his World