Marina Schinz, born in Zurich, moved to New York in 1964 to work for German-born fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld and to pursue a career as an independent photographer. Her garden photography has been published in magazines such as House & Garden, House Beautiful, New York Times Magazine, Time & Life Books, and Architectural Digest, and her previous books Visions of Paradise, The Gardens of Russell Page, and A Tuscan Paradise. She now lives near Piacenza, Italy.