Began gardening at four years old and also reading any book I could get my hands on at this early age. I am an Australian and my husband is Dutch. We were married in Canada and lived there for two years. Our eldest child of four, was born in Canada and with my husband's family all still living in The Netherlands, we have travelled to America and Europe, with children and now without, quite frequently. I have no tertiary horticulture training, only more than fifty years lessons of down to earth experiences. I not only have green thumbs but ten constantly dirty fingernails

Contributing editor in Suite101.com, publisher of garden articles in largest Tasmanian morning newspaper and various garden magazines, runner-up Australian Gardener of the Year 1999, own and love two gardens [city and country] with husband Kees.