Contributors
Steve Bender. One of the South s best-known garden writers，
Steve Bender is associate garden editor of Southern Living
magazine and has written for Southern Accents， Horticulture，
American Nurseryman， and American Horticulturist. A fre-
quent lecturer at garden symposia， he serves as chairman of
the Beautification Board in his hometown， Homewood， Ala-
bama. He wrote d~e essays on lawn care and pests and diseases，
contributed to the garden design essay， and served as con-
sultant for the plant encyclopedia.
Rita Buchanan. With training that combines botany and hor-
ticulture， Rita Buchanan has worked and gardened in Texas，
Colorado， Virginia， Connecticut， England， and Costa Rica.
She was a founding editor of Fine Gardening magazine and
now writes and edits for The Herb Companion and other
publications. As a gardener， she specializes in herbs， fragrant
plants， and flowers for cutting to make fresh and dried ar-
rangements. She was a general editor for this book.
Steve Buchanan. An illustrator specializing in natural history
subjects， Steve Buchanan does black-and-white drawings an~]
color paintings of plants， gardens， birds， insects， and outdoor
scenes. His work has appeared in Horticulture， Garden De-
sign， Fine Gardening. Scientific American， Organic Gardening，
the New York Times， and the Herb Companion and in several
books. He illustrated this volume.
Roger Holmes. Currently a free-lance writer and editor， Roger
Holnaes was the founding editor of Fine Gardenhtg magazine.
He was the editorial consultant for Taylor s Guide to Gar-
dening Techniques and acted as one of the general editors for
this book.
Sam and Carleen Jones. A professor of botany at the University
of Georgia from 1967 to 1991， Sam Jones has done extensive
research and writing on d~e native plants of the southeastern
United States. He is the coauthor， with the late Len Foote， of
Native Shrubs and Woody Vines o[ the Southeast (Timber
Press， 1989) and Gardening With Native Wild Flowers (Tim-
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