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Benjamin Futa
Benjamin Futa is currently in his second year at Purdue University studying Public Horticulture. He has been an avid gardener from a young age and imagines a life centered around connecting people to plants. He also blogs at PLAN-T.
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Elizabeth Childs
Elizabeth Childs loves quirky plants and colorful gardens that connect kids to the outdoor world. She's constantly in search of the latest chic garden fashion all while pursuing her graduate degree at Iowa State University in agricultural education.
Fern Richardson
Fern Richardson is a master gardener in training. She gardens on a Southern California balcony and and blogs at www.lifeonthebalcony.com.
Josh Schultes
Josh Schultes is a budding plant guru and landscape designer from Des Moines, Iowa. In his eyes, a garden without stones is like life without air. He'll graduate in May 2010 with a bachelor's degree in horticulture from Iowa State University.
Kelly Norris
Kelly Norris is the founder and editor of Dig This, the bookazine for people who love dirt. He's your best friend in the plant world, addicted to cool plants and the people who grow them. You might say he likes irises too, just a little.
Laura Mathews
Laura Mathews is a writer and photographer who writes about and photographs what she knows: plants and gardening. She tends an acre of gardens while caring for her family and chickens in central Pennsylvania. A sliver of time is left for her blog and studying horticulture.
Paul Westervelt
Paul Westervelt is a rising star horticulturist who works as annual and perennial production manager for Saunders Brothers. He's an avowed plant geek and recently spent time in Costa Rica immersed in tropical flora.
Rebecca McMahon
Rebecca McMahon is a horticulture educator with K-State Extension in Wichita, Kansas, where she teaches beginning and experienced gardeners how to find excitement in the vegetable garden. She plants, harvests, and cooks at The Demo Garden Blog (thedemogardenblog.wordpress.com).
Shaylen Linke
Shaylen Linke is a dancing diva and style maven. A 2009 graduate of Northwest Missouri State University, Shaylen and her husband Aaron live on an acreage with their dog Lizzy. She calls herself a hopeless gardener.
Stephanie Cohen
Stephanie Cohen is an award-winning writer and garden designer known to many as "The Perennial Diva". Look for her new book in May from Timber Press The Nonstop Garden, a book on mixed borders, which is co-written with Jen Benner.
Tyler Johnson
Tyler Johnson is a hopelessly crazed plant lover and senior in horticulture at Iowa State University. Originally from Elburn, Illinois, Tyler gardens on 1.5 acres chock full of all sorts of plants, including his new love irises.
Veronica Lorson Fowler
Veronica Lorson Fowler is a garden writer and complete garden geek living in Ames, IA. She is the author and editor of a number of gardening books, including "Gardening in Iowa," the proceeds of which go to Reiman Gardens. The former editor of Better Homes and Garden's Flower Gardening magazine, she is now a freelance writer and editor who has contributed to a variety of other gardening books and many magazine articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Country Home, Horticulture, Garden Design, and others. She is also a regular contributor to Iowa Gardening magazine.