Here at Gardening Know How, our goal is to help everyone become the gardener they aspire to be. So, whether you’re an apartment dweller with an affection for houseplants, a novice grower starting your first edible garden, or a master gardener looking to learn advanced techniques and design tricks, everyone is welcome here.
About Gardening Know How
Since its inception in 2007, Gardening Know How has grown to become the world's leading gardening website. Every month, millions of gardening enthusiasts visit our site to find the information and inspiration they need to achieve the garden of their dreams. With over 14,000 articles and more being published every day, we offer a virtual encyclopedia of gardening information.
Everyone at Gardening Know How is a gardener just like you. We know how dirt feels between our fingers, how thrilling it can be to see your first seedling or blossom of the year appear, and how good it tastes to bite into that fresh fruit you just picked from your very own garden. And because we’re gardeners too, our goal is simple: we want to make sure you get to experience these moments as well!
More than anything, gardening is fun, and we want to help you enjoy your garden and reach your growing potential.
Questions & Answers
Got a gardening question? Chances are we’ve got the answer. You can submit your questions and get expert advice on our Gardening Know How Questions & Answers site, or browse the more than 65,000 questions we’ve answered so far.
Our experienced team of gardening experts is on hand to help with whatever gardening challenges you may be having, and the answer to most questions is turned around within 24 hours. We also invite experienced gardeners to join the community and help others solve shared problems.
Learning Channel
Because our mission is to turn the whole world into gardeners, we’ve gathered some of the world’s most knowledgeable gardening experts, and given you the chance to learn straight from them in our Learning Channel.
Here, we invite you to take part in courses on a wide range of subjects led by gardening experts. Learn how to create a pollinator garden, plant a zero-waste kitchen garden, master the art of growing from seed, and more. You can also download free eBooks, such as How to Grow Delicious Tomatoes and DIY Projects to Bring Your Garden Indoors.
Join Our Community
As well as subscribing to our newsletters, you can also join our social community for the latest gardening advice and inspiration. You can follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Flipboard, Pinterest, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Meet the Team
Yes, we’re experts in content, advertising, publishing, marketing, and more, but before everything else, we’re gardeners. That’s why we’re so passionate about helping you with your garden. Collectively, we’ve gardened in every region in the US, the UK, and many other parts of the world, too. We have expertise in a wide range of topics, from creating native gardens and wildlife habitats to small-space urban gardening, houseplants, and more.
Editorial Team
I am an experienced gardener and have worked in homes and gardens media for over 20 years. I previously served as Editor on Period Living magazine, and worked for Homes & Gardens, Gardening Etc, Real Homes, and Homebuilding & Renovating before joining Gardening Know How. I have spent the last few years transforming my own garden, which is constantly evolving as a work in progress. I love propagating plants and am also a passionate organic home grower, having experimented with almost every type of vegetable at some point. In my home, I tend to an extensive houseplant collection and indoor herb garden.
The only child of a horticulturist and an English teacher, I was destined to become a gardening editor. I have been with Gardening Know how since 2015, and a Senior Editor since 2020. I hold a BA in English from Brandeis University and an MA in English from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After years of gardening in containers and community garden plots, I finally have a backyard of my own, which I am systematically filling with vegetables and flowers.
With a BFA in Electronic Media from the University of Cincinnati, a certificate in Writing for Television from UCLA, and a background in documentary filmmaking and local news, I loves providing gardeners with all the know how they need to succeed, in an easy and entertaining format. I live in Southwest Ohio, where I have been gardening for more than a decade, and spend my summers on a lake in Northern Michigan. It’s hard to leave my perennial garden at home, but I have a rustic (aka overcrowded) vegetable patch on a piece of land up north. I never thought when I was growing vegetables in my college dorm room, that one day I would get paid to read and write about my favorite hobby.
I am a former assistant editor of the UK’s oldest gardening magazine, Amateur Gardening, where I worked for five years. For the last few years, I have also been writing and editing content for digital gardening brands GardeningEtc and Homes & Gardens. I have taken part in a range of conservation and rewilding projects for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) as a way of exploring my horticultural horizons. I am currently undertaking my RHS Level 2 certificate in The Principles of Plant Growth and Development.
I joined Gardening Know How as a Content Editor in 2024, but I grew up helping my mom in the garden. I hold a bachelor’s degree in History from Miami University and a master’s degree in Public History from Wright State University. Before this, I worked for almost a decade as a Park Ranger with the National Park Service in Dayton, Ohio. The Huffman Prairie is one of my favorite places to explore native plants and get inspired. I have recently been working to turn my front yard into a pollinator garden.
Social Media & Marketing
I blend my hands-on gardening experience with a digital green thumb. With roots in family landscaping and management at a garden center, I have cultivated expertise in plants, supplies, and customer relations. Residing in the Midwest, I tend to my two-acre haven, showcasing a diverse range of trees, shrubs, and perennials. My friends call me the Hydrangea Queen, and I share my love for these blooms and impart gardening wisdom through videos and social media. Beyond gardening, I enjoy quality time with my family, travel, and theme parks. My mission is to inspire and advise plant enthusiasts, fostering flourishing gardens for both seasoned and budding gardeners alike.
Ecommerce
I’ve been with Gardening Know How since 2020, working across direct sales, project management, and e-commerce. With a Master’s in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a background in strategic planning and revenue optimization, I help support the business side of the site so our editorial team can keep writing and publishing great content. Though I’m relatively new to gardening, I love learning from our community – and I’m slowly but surely turning my outdoor space into my own personal oasis!
I am Content Director for Ecommerce across the Future's Home and Garden brands. I have been writing about homes since 2013, when I joined the Homebuilding & Renovating team as Junior Web Editor. Here I got to put a lifelong passion for architecture and design to good use, overseeing web content for the brand and helping people find information and inspiration for their own builds. When Future Plc acquired the brands in 2017, I was made Associate Editor of Realhomes.com. I was put in charge of increasing the brand’s presence as a product advisory, and built my skills around crafting review and buying guide content. In recent years, my team was asked to bring this insight to other Future brands, including Homes & Gardens, Livingetc, Gardeningetc, and, of course, Gardening Know How.
Regular Contributors
I am a master gardener and a docent at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, where I host public tours. I have studied horticulture and written about nature, trees, plants, and gardening for more than two decades. My extended family includes some 30 houseplants and hundreds of outdoor plants, including 250 trees, which are my main passion. I currently split my time between San Francisco and the French Basque Country, though I was raised in Alaska, which gives me experience of gardening in a range of climates.
I am a gardener and freelance writer based in the Detroit area. I have degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry and am a former high school science teacher. I have been gardening for more than 20 years and writing professionally for 15. My specialties are flowers, native plants, and herbs. I am the proud owner of only a few houseplants because I have cats who cannot stop chewing on them! Instead, I have developed a hobby growing terrarium plants that cats can’t reach.
My passion began with indoor gardening and deepened as I studied plant-fungi interactions in controlled settings. With a microbiology background focused on fungi, I've spent over a decade solving tough and intricate gardening problems. After spinal injuries and brain surgery, my approach to gardening changed. It became less about the hobby and more about recovery and adapting to physical limits. My growing success shows that disability doesn’t have to stop you from achieving your goals.
After graduating from Oklahoma State University with a degree in English, I pursued a career in communications. In addition, I wrote garden articles for magazines and authored a newspaper gardening column for many years. I contributed South-Central regional gardening columns for four years to Lowes.com. While living in Oklahoma, I served as a master gardener for 17 years.
I have been writing professionally for over 15 years about all things gardening and food. With a background as a professional chef, landscaper, and the gardener in charge of a well-known estate’s vegetable patches, I have immersed myself in the world of edible flora. My education includes several bachelor's degrees, a culinary certificate, and certification in urban gardening. My recent escapades have seen me install a small orchard, cultivate an edible landscape, and as a hobby, rescue and rehome wild cats. When not writing or gardening, I will often be found poring over a book or knitting a sweater. At a rough estimate, I am the custodian of around 50 houseplants, and countless outdoor leafy family members.
After attending college at Western Washington University, I moved to Seattle where I spent the next 28 years as a chef and caterer. The daughter of a Master Gardener, my interest in gardening could be termed genetic. For over 30 years I have babied houseplants, tended my own vegetable and herb gardens, planned and executed perennial gardens for clients, and even had a hand in creating a local community garden. My passion for food and gardening intertwine in my garden filled with fruit trees, berry brambles, herbs and veggies fresh picked for my next culinary creation. I now reside in Eastern Washington with my partner, our rescue dog Lillybelle, a garden full of edible plants and perennial bloomers, and houseplants galore.
I am a horticultural communications consultant with 30 years of experience writing about all aspects of the gardening world. I have worked for many of horticulture’s biggest brand names, writing blog posts, articles, press releases, and design and instructional pieces. My previous roles include Senior Editor and Editor-at-Large for Ball Publishing. I am based in New England where I garden in Zone 7a. I love tending to flower-filled containers on the patio and puttering around my vegetable garden.
I became Manager of Marketing Communications at Gardening Know How in 2019, but have recently retired and now contribute articles on a freelance basis. A Northwest native, I have resided and gardened in multiple zones in the US and am currently at home in Bandon, Oregon. Writing and editing for various publications since 1998, my BA in American Studies from Southern Maine University includes an emphasis in English. I was raised in California by avid gardeners and continue to enjoy the natural world with an appreciation for the concepts of sustainability and organic care for the planet.
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Advertise with Us
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Work with Us
Want to join the Gardening Know How team? We occasionally have job opportunities; please visit our Workable site and search for Gardening Know How for any available positions.
If you are a freelance gardening writer interested in contributing to the site, contact the editorial team.
Product Testing & Reviews
Our product reviews and buying guides are created with the aim of helping you choose the best products for your garden. Collectively, our team has many years of hands-on gardening experience, using the products that we write about. We are proud to share our knowledge and expertise to help you make the right choice – whether choosing a new lawn mower or seed-starting kit.
The products we review are carefully chosen by our editors based on specialist expertise and rigorous in-house testing. We test the products in our own homes and gardens to give them a real-life experience, but we also research third-party expert reviews, user reviews, and ratings for a more complete picture.
We review new and best-selling products available at many popular retailers, bringing you unbiased advice on the best products at the time of writing. We try to simplify the buying process and answer common questions.
Product samples are sent to us for review (often free of charge by the brands). Often, we buy products ourselves or choose to review products we have enjoyed using at home. Our team will test a product for at least two weeks – longer where necessary – to allow us time to get a full picture of how each product performs.
When we have finished our testing, we write the review and give honest feedback about how well the product performed. These product reviews may form the basis of larger buying guides.
Affiliate & Advertising Disclaimer
We are committed to helping you find the best products and services for your needs and connecting you with trustworthy retailers where you can purchase them at competitive prices. Within our editorial content, we often provide links to products and services on retailer sites for which we can receive compensation – called an affiliate fee – if you click on those links or make purchases through them. That affiliate fee is paid to us by the retailer and does not directly affect the price you pay for the product or service.
Our expert editorial teams are independent. This means the products and services they select to appear in our articles are chosen based on their unbiased, expert judgement and relevance to the readers' needs and article content. While our editors may be informed by commercial insights to understand the market, our goal is always to provide independent, objective, valuable and useful advice to our readers.
Our curated product widgets that you see in some of our articles are intended to help you find the best products and services, at competitive prices, at trusted retailers. Those widgets are powered by our own software, called Hawk, which displays the latest product and price information from thousands of retailers. We will always do our best to ensure that we display the most up-to-date information possible. On occasion, a retailer may have updated their prices, up or down, before the adverts displayed by Hawk are updated. Retailers may also add delivery or other costs to the purchase – please see the retailer's site for more information. The affiliate fees we receive help us to continue developing Hawk as well as helping to pay our teams and other website costs.
We also run advertising in various forms. Ads on our websites are designed in a way that makes them clearly identifiable as ads and distinguishable from our editorial articles.
From time to time, we also publish paid-for editorial content on the site. This content is labelled so you can see who has funded it and how it was created. We have a full guide to content funding on Gardening Know How here. You can also see the full terms and conditions that apply to your use of our sites right here.