About Flower-Gardening-Made-Easy.com
I got hooked on gardening when we bought our first house in 1991. Although I barely knew a forget-me-not from a weed, thanks to helping out in the family vegetable garden as a child, I'd had plenty of experience getting plants into the ground and caring for them.
Over the next few years, gardening took over my life, gradually turning from a hobby into a garden-writing and design business.
Plant knowledge came by doing and taking courses, and garden design skills by completing a community college certificate in landscape design. I also immersed myself in every good gardening book I could lay my hands on.
One gardening thing
leads to another
A couple of years later, my garden was photographed for a story in a national magazine and for a garden TV show. I'd been a magazine editor and writer since the early 1980s, so I switched my focus from general feature writing to garden writing and photography.
Before long, I was teaching gardening workshops at a local community college and giving slide talks to garden clubs and horticultural societies.
Eventually, this led to being approached by a publisher and writing a book for beginner gardeners, Clueless in the Garden, published in 2003, and reissued in spring 2008 in Canada as Basic Gardening. Once the book was out, I decided to try my hand at creating this website, which now has more 165 pages of gardening information, with more being added all the time.
In 1998 we moved to a 10-acre property in the country, which has become my own lab for garden design and a place to try out many different plants.
These days, my business is concentrated on the web site and garden writing, and I no longer have time to do garden designs for clients. Working on the site has been very rewarding, and I want to thank you for visiting Flower-Gardening-Made-Easy.com.
Please feel free to send comments, questions or feedback. I'm always interested in hearing if the site has helped you, or how it can be improved to offer even more gardening help.
Happy gardening, Yvonne Cunnington
Publisher, Flower-Gardening-Made-Easy.com
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