Mariko Imai
Japan
Born 1942
Mariko Imai was awarded and RHS Gold Medal in 1996 and has had her work on the cover of the RHS Japan Magazine. In 1997, she went to live a in small village in the north of Honshu where she started to grown her own vegetables and cultivate a collection of Asarum - and hopes to produce and illustrate a monograph of the genus