Christine Allen lived and worked on Killara Farm in Langley, BC, from 1993 to 2006. Since then she and her husband, Michael Kluckner, have lived in Australia, returning to Vancouver in 2010. Allen is a regular contributor to "GardenWise" and other magazines, and has written a number of books, including "Gardens of Vancouver" (Raincoast, 2000) and "Roses for the Pacific Northwest" (Steller, 1999).