Cold Climate Gardening

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Alice Nelson

USDA Hardiness Zone: work in 3-5 Location: Home:small urban: work:homes and businesses Geographic type: hills, rocky outcroppings Soil type: gravelly soil - sand - sandy loam - silt - clay Experience level: professional 16 years Particular interests: design using perennials, annuals, shrubs and rock.

Number of posts: 16
Email address: Yoopernelsons@aol.com

Chan Stroman

Chan Stroman, aka the Bookish Gardener, is "an attorney (by trade) and a mother (by great fortune)." A lover of books and a lover of music, she's also a great fan of Henry Mitchell. USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 on the north, 5 on the south AHS Heat Zone: ? Location: urban; south central Wisconsin Geographic type: Eastern Ridges and Lowlands of Wisconsin (earth deposited by glacier movement over limestone) Soil Type: alkaline clay Experience level: enthusiastic and obsessed relative beginner Particular interests: peonies, annuals, edible ornamentals and ornamental edibles, color, fragrance

Number of posts: 1
Email address: bookishgardener@gmail.com
Web site: http://bookishgardener.com

Barbara Morse

Email address: kopurdy@yahoo.com

Craig Levy

I started in 1977 growing plants at wholesale nurseries and a wholesale seed company in California. In 1992 I started volunteering (in the nursery, of course!) at Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco where I met my wife. My wife is originally from upstate and we moved here in 2002. It took at least two years of living here for me to fully understand our property and to take advantage and work with our microclimate. Although growing zone maps show us to be in 5, we are realistically a 4b. I am inordinately proud, in a smarmy kind of way, of how many of the plants we brought with us have thrived. Coming from a zone 9 has been quite an adjustment for all of us. But we are thriving and enjoy the beauty and what the land gives us everyday. USDA Hardiness Zone: 4b/5a Location: rural; Central Leatherstocking near Cooperstown, New York Geographic type: riverine valley Soil type: Chenango alluvial - shallow clay and highly stony Experience level: 28 years professionally wholesale and retail, no longer in the business Particular interests: native plants and ecosystems, flowering and berry producing shrubs, home-grown foods, maples, birches, willows, ornamental grasses, filipendulas, iris, ligularias, persicarias, asclepias, artemisia, asters, arisaemas, hardy geraniums, euphorbias, eupatoriums, origanums, lysimachias, eryngiums, lilies, and visiting nurseries

Number of posts: 16
Email address: nepetaguy@yahoo.com
Web site: http://rustlingleavesny.blogspot.com/

Jeff Gillman

Jeff is an associate professor in the department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota where he teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in nursery management. He also conducts research and gives talks on the production of woody ornamental plants and the use and abuse of pesticides. Jeff has a loathing for information that is passed out without concern for the consequences. Hearing self-proclaimed experts spouting things such as feeding syrup to plants gets him so fired up that he decided to do the research on all those common household remedies and write the tell-all book. When not teaching, conducting research, or participating in numerous master gardener programs in Minnesota and nearby states, Jeff likes to spend time with his four-year-old daughter who involves him in her slug hunting and slug control research. Together they test lint, eggshells, coffee grounds, and other top-shelf ingredients. "But," says Jeff, "that's another book."

Number of posts: 1
Email address: gillm003@umn.edu
Web site: http://www.timberpress.com/media/getAuthorByID.cfm?AuthorID=1241

Innes Kasanof

Number of posts: 2
Email address: inneskas@localnet.com

Judy Miller

USDA Hardiness Zone: 4b/5aLocation: rural; just south of British Columbia/Idaho borderGeographic type: foot of Black & Clifty Mountains (foothills of Rockies--the Wet Columbia Mountains in BC climate- speak)Soil type:acid sand (glacial lake bed)/coniferous forestExperience level: intermediate/professionalParticular interests: fragrant & edible plants, hardy bulbs, cottage gardening, alpines, peonies, penstemons & other blue flowers, primulas, antique & species roses & iris; nocturnal flowers Also: owner of Paradise Gardens Rare Plant Nursery

Number of posts: 44
Email address: paradisegds@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.rareplantnursery.net

Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. • USDA Hardiness Zone:4 • AHS Heat Zone: 3 • Location: rural; Southern Tier of NY • Geographic type: foothills of Appalachian Mountains • Soil Type: acid clay • Experience level: intermediate • Particular interests: colchicums, narcissus, cottage gardening, NY native plants, gardening with/for children

Number of posts: 530
Email address: kathy@coldclimategardening.com
Web site: http://www.coldclimategardening.com

rosemarie hanson

USDA Hardiness Zone: 4b/5aLocation: small town; NY's North CountryGeographic type: Eastern Lake OntarioSoil type: alkaline clayExperience level: advanced beginner Particular interests: fragrant plants, old garden roses, tulips, gardening for kids, kitchen gardens.

Number of posts: 23
Email address: rotonyh@aol.com

Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Wittig Albert is the author of Nightshade, (April, 2008, hardcover)Spanish Dagger, (April, 2008, paperback), and the China Bayles' Book of Days. She has written fifteen other China Bayles novels, and more than a dozen short stories. Her newest mystery series features Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Hawthorn House). She is also the author of two non-fiction books: Writing From Life: Telling Your Soul's Story and Work of Her Own: A Woman's Guide to Success off the Career Track. A former English professor and university administrator, Ms. Albert has been writing full-time since 1985. She and her husband Bill Albert have written over 60 novels for children and young adults, including books in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series. Writing under the pseudonym of Robin Paige, the Alberts are also the co-authors of twelve Victorian mysteries, the latest of which is titled Death on the Lizard. They live in rural Texas with a varying assortment of dogs, cats, ducks, geese, cows, and sheep. Ms. Albert is a founder and past president of the Story Circle Network, a non-profit organization created to help women explore their life stories.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: china@tstar.net
Web site: http://susanalbert.typepad.com/lifescapes/

Talitha Purdy

In addition to being the primary vegetable and herb grower for Purdyville, Talitha is also chief pickler, canner, and bread baker. She grows flowers in between the vegetable rows and cuts them for arrangements. In her "spare" time she is developing her own sloper and sews many cool presents for her relatives--everything from capes to stuffed animals, and even a teepee! USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 AHS Heat Zone: 3Location: rural; Southern Tier of NYGeographic type: foothills of Appalachian MountainsSoil Type: acid clayExperience level: advanced beginnerParticular interests: herbs, vegetables, cutting garden

Number of posts: 35
Email address: talithap@gmail.com