This remarkable book is a ready source of authoritative information about garden wildflowers in a browsable, easy-access format. A brief introduction outlines the basics of selecting and growing wildflowers, from the importance of finding reputable sources for nursery-propagated plants to fitting these distinctive plants into the scheme of your garden. One hundred plant portraits follow, offering such critical information as eventual size, bloom time, hardiness zone, and sun requirements. The description includes suggestions for landscape use, notable cultivars, and any special requirements. Whether you want to add a few beautiful wildflowers to your garden or plan a sweeping prairie of blooms, you’ll find the perfect plants for your needs in 100 Favorite Garden Wildflowers.
Teri Dunn Chace is a writer and editor with over 30 titles in publication (Friedman-Fairfax, Cool Springs Press, Timber Press). She's written and edited extensively for several major gardening publications (Horticulture, North American Gardener, Birds & Blooms, Backyard Living).
She brings complex scientific and environmental topics to general audiences in her engaging and accurately researched articles for various regional magazines, including the local Audubon Magazine and the Appalachian Mountain Club's journal.
For clients ranging from Reader's Digest to Storey Publishing to Harris Publications, she project-manages (edits, writes, photo-researches) other authors' books as well as consumer SIPs (Special-Interest Publications). She is also an accomplished travel and food writer.
As a Senior Copywriter, she has worked on-staff and as a consultant to numerous direct-marketing companies (B-to-B as well as B-to-C), from pet supplies to roses to outdoor-living products/furnishings to scented candles. Her copywriting for Jackson & Perkins gained her the industry's highest award, The Catalog Age Gold Award.
She has written and edited for the nation's leading roadside-travel 'zine and website, Roadside (and Roadsideonline.com), on topics ranging from "Why Greeks and Diners?" to urban- planning issues to comfort-food recipes to iconic on-the-road books.
The most intriguing job she's ever held? Monitoring rare turtles for The Nature Conservancy. Or...raising teenage boys.
Born in California and educated at Bard College in New York, Teri lived for many years on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, the ruggedly beautiful rocky coast north of Boston. She now lives in a small upstate New York village where the summers are glorious and the winters are very, very snowy.
She works under the following names: Teri Dunn, Teri Chace, Teri Dunn Chace, Julie Drysdale.
Her website (with clickable work samples) is:
http://terichacewriter.com/
