My latest news is that my Transatlantic Gardener blog has won the Garden Blog Of The Year award from the Garden Media Guild. The blog was a beaten finalist twice so it's really great to win.

In North America I now have Graham Rice @ Rodale's Organic Life - my own pages on the Rodale's Organic Life magazine website - so please hop over there to see a wide range of short, crisp pieces on ornamentals of all kinds.

In Britain I'm now blogging for the top British mail order seed and plants company, Mr Fothergill's, so please take a look at my Plant Talk blog - it focuses on insight and background on a wide range of ornamentals and ornamental edibles.

Please check out my most recent book, Powerhouse Plants: 510 Top Performers For Multi-Season Beauty following on from Planting the Dry Shade Garden - both with photography by judywhite. Both have been well-received, I'm delighted to say.

I'm also continuing to appear every month in Britain's Gardener's World magazine (available in Barnes & Noble stores in North America), with Plant For All Seasons, a series based on my book Powerhouse Plants.

I have three ebooks avavailable for American gardeners, in all the usual formats, including the first two in my new Plants For Problem Places series. Two of my ebooks are also available fro British gardeners. Take a look at details of all these ebooks.

In all, I've now published twenty eight books, and won seven writing awards - three in the US and four in the UK. I continue to run three blogs: Transatlantic Gardener, Plant Talk for Mr Fothergill's and the New Plants blog for the Royal Horticultural Society. I continue to write for a number of American and British magazines and newspapers.

I judged for many years at the Chelsea Flower Show and am member of a number of Royal Horticultural Society committees. These days I garden mainly in Pennsylvania, but also in Northamptonshire in England.

You can follow me on Twitter and find me on Facebook.

And don't forget my perennials encyclopedia, the largest book on perennials ever written. The Encyclopedia of Perennials describes almost 7,000 plants, it was published in an American edition with the American Horticultural Society and in a British edition with the Royal Horticultural Society - and won the Laurent-Perrier Award for the gardening reference book of the year.