Zia Allaway is a horticulturalist, editor, and journalist. She writes a regular column on gardeners for Homes & Gardens magazine and has written a range of titles for DK, including Grow Small Gardens, Grow Trees, Grow Low-maintenance, Grow Compost, Grow Eco-Gardening, RHS Practical House Plant Book and RHS Practical Cactus & Succulent Book, Indoor Edible Garden, How to Grow Practically Everything, RHS The Complete Gardener’ s Manual, and RHS What Plant Where. She has also contributed to RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers.