About Susan Harris

Blog editor and frequent contributor Susan Harris is a garden writer, blogger, and teacher. 

Susan’s Writing

• Susan’s a co-founder of the popular, award-winning team blog GardenRant, and on her own blog and website she covers Sustainable and Urban Gardening. 
• In print, her articles have appeared in Organic Gardening, Fine Gardening, Landscape Architecture and others. 
• To learn more about her writing services for independent garden centers, click here.

Susan’s Garden

• Her garden is all about low-maintenance, sustainable plants and practices used in the pursuit of beauty.  (Being eco-friendly doesn’t require abandoning all hope of design success, or eye-popping results.)  Mainly shrubs, the easiest perennials available, and an on-going experiment with short creeping groundcovers that she’s using to replace her lawn.
• A lifelong “ornamentalist”, Susan caught the veg-growing bug in 2009, producing a crop of edibles from containers on her deck (away from the critters).  So expect some veg-in-container as well as newbie-veg-gardener stories. 
• Help yourself to a tour of her garden.

What Susan Blogs about on the Mahoney’s Garden Blog

Her twice-weekly posts are full of seasonal tips (your virtual garden-coaching) and features about the coolest gardens and gardeners.  Book reviews, garderning-in-movie reviews, and whatever looks interesting.  And she’s always on the look-out for potential guest bloggers from among the best garden writers in New England.

Photo by Rob Cardillo for Organic Gardening Magazine.