Meet Fine Gardening’s New Contributing Editors

o.k. horticulture , the nation ’s lead provider of useful , trustworthy horticulture info , announces the fitting of eight unexampled contributing editors to the magazine . We feel these individuals are kindred spirits who partake in our no - trumpery approach to delivering useful information to hands - in - the - dirt gardener across the country .

Here is a list of the new contributing editor ofFine horticulture :

Linda Chalker - Scotthas a doctorate in gardening from Oregon State University and is an International Society of Arboriculture licence tree surgeon . She is an propagation urban horticulturist at Washington State University and an associate professor in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture . She is the author ofThe Informed GardenerandThe Informed Gardener Blooms Again , both of which try common horticultural myth . In 2009 , she and three other donnish colleagues launchedThe Garden Professors , a blog through which they train and entertain an outside consultation .

Stephanie Cohen , also known in the horticultural industry as “ the recurrent prima donna , ” learn herbaceous plants and perennial innovation at Temple University for more than 20 years . She was the founding father and director of the Landscape Arboretum of Temple University – Ambler . She has take in three design honour from the Perennial Plant Association , as well as its Service Award and Academic Award . She has also received laurels from Temple University and The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society , and was named Garden Communicator of the Year in 2000 by the American Nursery & Landscape Association . She is coauthor ofThe Perennial Gardener ’s Design Primer , Fallscaping , andThe Nonstop Garden . She gardens in southeast Pennsylvania and blog atThe Perennial Diva .

Jeff Gillmanis an associate prof in the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota . He is the author of four Quran , includingThe Sojourner Truth about Garden Remedies , The Truth about Organic Gardening , andHow Trees Die . Like Chalker - Scott , Gillman contributes toThe Garden Professors , and is committed to helping gardeners feel substantial answer among the self-contradictory and false information regularly offered to today ’s natural scientist and gardeners .

Amy Goldmanis a passionate vegetable gardener whose three books , Melons for the Passionate Grower , The Compleat Squash , andThe Heirloom Tomato , have each won the American Horticultural Society ’s Book Award . She is a board appendage of Seed Savers Exchange and The New York Botanical Garden . Goldman grow hundreds of variety of heirloom vegetables in her garden in upstate New York .

Billy Goodnickis a landscape architect , pedagog , and author in Santa Barbara , California , who has 35 days of experience in retail - glasshouse sales , landscaping , design , and pedagogy . Goodnick partake in his sapience on his web log , Cool Green Gardens , which can be obtain on FineGardening.com .

Richard Hawkeis industrial plant rating managing director at the Chicago Botanic Garden , where he conducts long - term trials on dozens of ornamental industrial plant . This programme received the Award for Program Excellence from the American Public Gardens Association in 2008 . Hawke lectures wide on topic associate to his research and teaches several courses at the Chicago Botanic Garden . He was the recipient of the Perennial Plant Association ’s Academic Award in 2005 .

Jason Reevesis the research horticulturist with the University of Tennessee at the West Tennessee Research and Education Center in Jackson . He holds a overlord ’s degree in decorative gardening and landscape design from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville . Reeves is wide respected for his plant cognition , honed while work at leading institutions , such as the Missouri Botanical Garden and Longwood Gardens .

Amy Stewartis the accolade - win author of five books on the endangerment and pleasures of the natural world , including twoNew York Timesbest sellers , Wicked PlantsandFlower Confidential . She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts , the American Horticultural Society ’s Book Award , and the California Horticultural Society ’s Writer ’s Award . Stewart hold up and garden in Eureka , California , and blog regularly atwww.gardenrant.com .

Fine horticulture is a cartridge holder dedicate to making readers better gardeners . Our readers span all ability stratum , but they share a warmth for growing all type of plants . Fine Gardeningis write by expert gardener and horticulturists from around the nation and focus on works , techniques , designs , that lector can practice in their own gardens . The magazine is published six metre a class by The Taunton Press .

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