Born in Cambridge, England, Graham Stuart Thomas was a
wayside gadens model of international artist horticulture and garden, a student in the University Botanical Gardens at the University of Cambridge. He has won numerous awards and medals for his work by the Royal Horticultural Society, National Rose Society and the Garden Writer's Guild. The famous rose breeder David Austin, also a rose that bears his wayside gardens name.
It combines art and science of gardening in harmony. Although wayside gardens beautiful and passionate, his paintings have been precise enough to be seen in most scientific publications are gardening. Thomas passed in 2003, a legacy to leave behind wonderful creations - for the wonders of nature, a bit 'more on the Internet for the rest of us.