Holly Shimizu

Holly Shimizu is the executive director of the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., and former managing director of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, near Richmond, Virginia. She contributed to the BBG handbook Gourmet Herbs (2001), served as editorial consultant on the Eyewitness handbook Herbs, and was a coauthor of The American Garden Guide Book on Herb Gardening. She was also one of the hosts of the television show Victory Garden and developed Holly Shimizu's Video Guide to Growing and Using Herbs.

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