Susan Harris

In a nutshell, Susan Harris is a national garden writer, blogger, and teacher.  Her semi-official resume is right here.

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.
    

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 used 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 cover these and many more subejcts:

• Her best gardening tips about design, great plants, and techniques that work.
• National gardening news, like what’s happening in school gardens, community gardens, the White House Garden.
• Profiles of nationally known gardeners, garden writers, speakers, even TV personalities
• The latest tips for gardeners from top horticultural researchers
• Top picks for U.S. gardens to visit
• Cool gardens in movies (“It’s Complicated”!)
• Reviews of the latest and greatest gardening books, magazines, products, blogs and websites.
• What’s growing in her Zone 7 Maryland garden – all plants that are hardy in Boston’s Zone 6

Photo by Rob Cardillo for Fine Gardening Magazine.