Karen Hugg is a writer and gardener with a passion for plants. She’s a certified ornamental horticulturalist and Master Pruner. She has helped hundreds of clients create relaxing, beautiful gardens via her garden design and maintenance company for almost 20 years, and has taught horticulture at the community college level. Now she writes about plants and gardening with published articles in Garden Center Magazine, Garden Rant, Northwest Garden News, and others. She also writes novels about plants and flowers, including The Forgetting Flower, The Dark Petals of Provence, and the forthcoming Harvesting the Sky. Hugg lives in the Seattle area with her husband, three adopted kids, and dog Olive.
How often when you're reading a gardening book do you find yourself laughing, smiling, and nodding in agreement, maybe even answering out loud? Karen Hugg's down-to-earth book touched my heart, inspired and informed me about not only gardens, but also my own health and happiness and relationship with nature. Brava! - Sharon Lovejoy, author of Sunflower Houses, Roots Shoots Buckets & Boots, and Trowel and Error, among many others Karen Hugg has written a fine and important guide on how gardening nurtures us as we nurture the Earth, and how to deepen our reciprocity with the rest of the natural world. -- Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle