A Lifelong Passion for Gardens

I’ve been gardening my entire life, first learning at the side of my mother and father, who made sure we always had a vegetable garden, roses, perennials and annuals wherever we lived.

But I was always an avid reader; English was one of my minors at the University of Michigan, and it fostered a love of writing, too.

As a freelance news writer in Latin America (I lived in Peru and Argentina), I experienced an entire new world of plants. And even more after I moved to DC and became an on-air radio news correspondent for the Voice of America, with assignments at the White House, the Pentagon, the Supreme Court, New York City, and London. Living in Britain and visiting many gardens, I determined one day to become a landscape designer. Back in DC, I graduated from the George Washington University Landscape Design Program, started a business with two friends, and after several years became a Fellow of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD).

“But I missed writing and editing.”

I eventually became editor of APLD’s magazine, The Designer, and also published articles for Landscape Architecture, The American Gardener, and other magazines.

Not once have I regretted changing careers.

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