Zia Allaway is an author, 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 Compost, Grow Eco-Gardening, RHS Practical House Plant Book, RHS Practical Cactus & Succulent Book, Indoor Edible Garden, and RHS What Plant Where, and has also contributed to RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers.

Award-winning horticulturist Fran Bailey grew up on a cut flower nursery near York, where her Dutch father encouraged her love of all things botanical. After studying at the Welsh College of Horticulture she moved to London working as a freelance florist.

Later she opened her first shop the Fresh Flower Company in South London expanding into houseplants with the opening of Forest in 2013, which she runs with the help of her daughters. Fran has written two other House Plant books in collaboration with the RHS.