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Andrew Bunting has been curator at the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College since 1993. The arboretum focuses on ornamental collections of woody plants, including hollies, magnolias, rhododendrons, and ornamental vines. For many years he taught the certificate course on ornamental vines at Longwood Gardens. He also owns Fine Garden Creations, a garden-design and installation company started in 1992 and located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Claire Hagen Dole is the former publisher of Butterfly Gardeners' Quarterly. She edited the BBG handbook The Butterfly Gardener's Guide (2003) and contributed to the BBG handbook Designing an Herb Garden (2004). She lives in Seattle, Washington, and writes about wildlife gardening for numerous publications. Claire's own hell strip was featured in an HGTV segment on gardening in 2002.
Caleb Leech is curator of the Herb Garden and Hardy Fern Collection at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and former curator of BBG's Alice Recknagel Ireys Fragrance Garden. He has gardened almost all his life, in many different climates. He currently focuses on community gardens, shared landscapes, and the connections people feel with plants and place.
Beth Hanson is a former managing editor of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's handbook series and is editor of ten BBG handbooks, including Buried Treasures: Tasty Tubers of the World, The Best Apples to Buy and Grow, Easy Compost, and Natural Disease Control. She also contributed to The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Gardener's Desk Reference (Henry Holt, 1998). She lives outside New York City, where she is a master gardener volunteer and writes about science and health for various publications.
Monika Hannemann is an urban horticulturist and educator. Until recently, she managed the horticulture and family education programs in BBG's Discovery Garden, an adventure garden for children and families. All the plants in her chapter were tested and approved by young visitors in the Discovery Garden. She also worked with children in New York City schools, helping them connect with plants through gardening and growing food. Monika is currently training to become a certified arborist in Maplewood, New Jersey, and continuing her work with children.
Janet Marinelli is a former director of Publications at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She has written several books on sustainable landscape design and blogs about all things photosynthetic on her website, janetmarinelli.com. Her work has garnered numerous awards, including the American Horticultural Society's prestigious American Gardener Award for writing "that has made a significant contribution to horticulture” and the 2008 Trudy Farrand/John Strohm magazine writing award from the National Wildlife Federation.
Leda Meredith is an ethnobotanist and an instructor at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Botanical Garden. She is the author of Botany, Ballet & Dinner from Scratch: A Memoir with Recipes (Heliotrope Books, 2008), and the winner of Adelphi University's 2008 Teaching Excellence Award.
Anne O'Neill has gardened in Ireland, England, and New York. She is curator of the Shakespeare Garden, Alice Recknagel Ireys Fragrance Garden, and members of the Plant Family Collection at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She also was curator of the Cranford Rose Garden from 2001 until 2008. She has a particular interest in sustainable horticultural practices.
Meghan Ray worked at Brooklyn Botanic Garden from 1994 until 2006 as curator of the Shakespeare Garden, Alice Recknagel Ireys Fragrance Garden, and the Rock Garden, among others. In 2006, she joined the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, where she manages the South African and Palm and Cycad collections. She has a master's degree in garden history and landscape studies from the Bard Graduate Center in New York City and writes and teaches about horticulture and landscape history.
Jennifer Williams has worked at Brooklyn Botanic Garden for almost ten years as a gardener in the Steinhardt Conservatory and specializes in interior display and container design. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia, where she studied drawing and painting. Before joining BBG, she pursued a career in independent filmmaking.