About

Madison is a writer, editor and life-long plant lover. After discovering an obsession with indoor gardening, she transformed her passion for plants into a career, contributing to various online and print publications in the gardening sphere. Through her writing, Madison hopes to encourage new gardeners to garden with the plants and the planet in mind.

Madison has written for many major online gardening publications and is one of our top contributing writers at All About Gardening. She continues to write for other gardening publications like Rural Sprout, and Gardener Magazine. She’s also been featured by Real Homes, and Architectural Digest for her in-depth experience with tropical plants. When Madison isn’t writing for us, you can catch her in her home country of South Africa planting in her garden.

Logan Hailey is a passionate garden writer and former full-time ecological farmer turned digital nomad. She is an expert in organic gardening with a BS degree in Sustainable Horticulture. She loves vegetables and has grown many different plants in her lifetime.

Logan is one of our top authors, and has written much of our organic gardening content at All About Gardening. She’s been featured in MSN.com, Thrillist.com, Apartment Therapy, and other major news media outlets. When she’s not writing, or gardening, you can keep up with her adventures on Instagram @naturallylogan, or on her podcast, The Soil Collective.

Taylor is a farmer-florist and owner at Sievers Blumen Farm, a fresh-cut flower farm in rural Illinois. She was raised on a cattle and grain farm and grew up participating in 4-H, FFA, and several horse shows. Her main interests are cooking from scratch, creating unique bouquets for her customers, wild plant identification, and learning about plant history and use.

Taylor received her Master’s degree in Plant, Soil, & Agricultural Systems in 2016 from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she studied cover crops and soil fertility. She and her husband are working towards their goal of a mostly self-sustaining homestead. She chronicles her flower farming and homesteading experiences on her farm blog, www.sieversblumenfarm.com.

Laura Elsner is a certified master gardener and has been gardening professionally for over 15 years. When she’s not out in the dirt running her own gardening business, Calgary Gardener, she can be found reading about gardening, writing about gardening, out in her own garden, or fussing over her many houseplants.

As a Northern Climate gardener, Laura knows the challenges  of living and growing in a less than ideal environment.  She specializes in growing lush and visually stunning gardens, focusing on bloom times and plant choice. She loves playing with the various textures, colors, and features of plants to come up with interesting and lovely combinations. 

Laura is also a mom to two young boys who enjoy helping out in the garden, especially anything that involves getting very muddy.

Liz Jaros is a professional writer and gardener who calls the Midwest home. She divides her time between running a small landscape design business (Yardlove), writing garden content and volunteering as a Certified Master Gardener. 

Formally educated in both horticulture and journalism, Liz is either working with plants or writing about them. She specializes in urban yard restoration and small property landscaping for metro area homeowners. She enjoys making plant recommendations for challenging sites, maintaining perennials, pruning shrubs, and coaching newbie gardeners. 

When not digging in the dirt (physically or verbally), Liz enjoys music, art, and cooking for the people she loves. She has three almost-grown children, a supportive husband, and two rescue pets.

Jill is currently a hobby gardener and stay at home mom. Her love for gardening came from a high school job at a local garden center. Jill then earned her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Horticulture and Turfgrass Management from the University of Rhode Island in 2007.

Jill has spent her years post college as a plant recorder at a botanical garden, golf course horticulturist, and high-end gardener. She specializes in coastal plantings in zone 6b and loves hydrangeas.

Liessa decided at the age of 10 that she wanted to be a naturalist, and started learning everything she could about plants, animals, and ecosystems. Many years later, she earned a Master’s degree in wildlife biology (Iowa State University) and a PhD in forestry (North Carolina State University), both with an emphasis on conservation biology and birds. She has worked as a greenhouse technician, wildlife biologist, educational consultant, artist, and homeschooling mom. She’s also written for NC State University about plants and wildlife.

Liessa has special interests in native plants, gardening for wildlife, ecology, and conservation. She has maintained a garden everywhere she has lived. She currently lives in North Carolina and maintains a small urban garden with annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, and a persimmon tree. She also has several house plants and two rescue cats who get into everything! In her spare time, you will most likely find her wandering around in the woods with a camera.

Melissa is a writer, hobby gardener and beekeeper who spent many years as a Language Arts teacher before pursuing life as a homemaker.  Now she can be found working in her extensive pollinator garden, trolling local nurseries for unique plant specimens, tending to her chickens, honey bees, and the many fruit-bearing plants on her property. Melissa hopes to inspire other gardeners to delve into the rich and fulfilling world of pollinator gardening.

Melissa spent many years gardening in the tropical climate of South Florida where orchids are part of the natural landscape and many common houseplants are native species. In 2016, she moved to North Florida where she currently resides with her husband, three daughters, 13 chickens, thousands of honeybees and a rooster named Bruce. Melissa’s greatest gardening goal is to create a home for an abundance of hummingbirds, dragonflies, butterflies and-her personal favorite-bumble bees.

Jenna is a former Chicago business professional turned organic farmer with over 5 years of experience organically growing vegetables, herbs and cut flowers. She has grown for farmers markets, CSA, an online store and several local restaurants in zone 5a. She co-owns and runs Partners’ Gardens LLC, a small-scale, no-till market garden in southwestern New Hampshire.

What Jenna loves most about farming is being part of a supportive and genuine community and getting local food on plates all across the Monadnock Region. She lives with her partner and husband Tyler, cat Winks and dog Rocko whom she is utterly obsessed with.

Danielle is an avid gardener and rose enthusiast originally from the Pacific Northwest. She now gardens in the high desert of Washington State. She comes from a long line of hobbyist and professional gardeners, and has fond childhood memories of gardening with her mother and helping her grandfather prepare veggies for the farmer’s market. 

Danielle has experience with a wide variety of roses and companion plants. Her personal favorites at home are ‘Eden’ and ‘Teasing Georgia’.

A mom of 4, Danielle is passionate about sharing the magic of gardening with kids. For many years, she taught teens the value of growing their own food and beautifying the earth at her local High school’s community garden. 

Her biggest gardening challenge is convincing her two dogs, Louisa and Pinecone, to keep out of the roses after applying manure. Danielle is an advocate for planting keystone native species and creating wildlife habitat along with roses in the garden. She is in the process of earning her Master Gardener certification.

Natalie was born and raised in Kansas where she spent most of her summers as a child helping on a farm. She helped grow thousands of mums and other herbaceous plants. This is where her love for plants began, and she has been in the horticulture industry ever since. In 2018 she earned her Bachelor’s of Agriculture with a focus on Horticulture Production. 

Natalie currently resides in Colorado with her husband, dog, two cats, and way too many houseplants. In her spare time you can find her enjoying her animals, hiking outdoors, or running local trails. Most of her horticultural experience lies in production, herbaceous perennials & annuals, and houseplants. She continues to further her education in homesteading and cut flower gardening.

Jason is a hobby gardener, and professional writer. Most of his experience comes from growing ornamental plants in his garden and around his property. He lives in Hardiness Zone 7A, and is well versed in growing different perennial flowers and loves ornamental shrubs. He occasionally will grow vegetables, with tomatoes being his favorite vegetable to grow in the garden.

Paige was born in South Dakota where she worked at a local greenhouse owned by her family in her free time. Growing up she spent a lot of time helping in the greenhouse and learning about different plants. She attended South Dakota State University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Agronomy. She has spent the last 7 years working in the various parts of the agriculture industry.

Paige has spent most of those years working in agricultural research from performing research studies on various plants to research station operations. Recently, she decided to step away from the agriculture industry and focus on raising her young son. Paige lives on a small acreage in southwest Minnesota and is working on filling her yard with beautiful flowers, trees and shrubs. She loves animals and currently has a dog, a cat and a few chickens. In her spare time she enjoys kayaking, fishing and spending time with her husband and family.

Emily is currently the Greenhouse Superintendent at The Ohio State University. She received her Associate of Science degree from The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute, and her Bachelor of Science in Horticulture and Crop Sciences from The Ohio State University. Emily currently holds a Commercial Pesticide Applicator license from the State of Ohio.

Some of Emily’s earliest experiences with plants include walking around the family vegetable garden with her grandfather, planting acorns in egg cartons, and going with her dad on the weekends to check greenhouse temperature and watering needs at a local university. Emily lives with her husband, children, and pets. In her free time, you will find Emily co-leading a local Girl Scout Troop, volunteering with her children’s PTO, picking up toys, and trying to remember to water her peppers and tomatoes.

Sarah Hyde is a former organic farmer with over ten years experience growing vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits for farmers markets, CSAs, and restaurants in the high desert of Arizona (zone 7b). Growing in Arizona gave her experience in drip irrigation, high tunnel crop management, and year-round harvesting.

Now based in Minnesota (zone 4b), she loves harvesting purple carrots and green beans with her family in their home garden and is learning how to grow native plants to transform the landscaping into a pollinator garden. She works as a Farm Consultant and is in the process of becoming a Master Gardener.

Merideth is an organic gardener, suburban homesteader, and writer.  Her love for gardening developed a little later in life when she helped her mom build an organic hobby farm in central Texas.  Despite the crazy heat and fire ants, she was hooked!  Merideth now lives in northern Virginia with her family and dog, and when not in her backyard garden, can often be found getting happily lost hiking the Appalachian Trail. 

Lisa Ebner is a branding specialist that manages the Pinterest channel at All About Gardening. She is an expert in branding, and design, spending many years working for several clients designing everything from brand packages, to pieces of jewelry.

When Lisa isn’t managing our social media channels, you’ll find her spending time with her family and pets. She also manages her regular responsibilities while successfully maintaining a number of different houseplants in her home.

Daria is an experienced content manager that has worked for several major online publications. She is an expert at formatting content, and also helps with image preparation. In her spare time, Daria is interested in music, plays the piano, loves animals, and has many houseplants that help make her home cozy and full of energy.