EDITORIAL

Summer 2026

Me
Founder & Creative Director
Responsible for editorial vision, content strategy, storytelling, audience development, Pinterest experimentation, deer traffic analysis, and occasional late-night organizational restructuring.

Me
Editor-in-Chief
Determines whether articles are actually about the thing they appear to be about. Current findings: The rabbit article was not really about rabbits.

Me
Writer
Specializes in discovering stories hidden inside ordinary moments. Frequently follows unrelated observations until they become articles.

Me
Photographer
Stops gardening to photograph gardening.

Me
Director of Social Media and Community Growth
Recently discovered Instagram Stories are not feed posts. Perpetually fascinated by Pinterest, Google Search Console, and the mysterious behavior of internet strangers.

My Husband
Director of Turf Operations & Obstacle Course Navigation
Responsible for preserving remaining lawn assets and reviewing garden expansion proposals.
Position routinely overruled by management.
Current Assessment: "Where am I supposed to mow?"
Future Assessment: “Wow! Looks great!”

Our 6-pound Chihuahua
Chief Security Officer
Responsibilities:
• Barking
• Additional barking
• Perimeter surveillance
Effectiveness against deer remains under review.

My Mother
Chief Propagator and Family Oracle
Responsible for:
• Coleus distribution
• Propagation intelligence
• If she doesn't know the answer, we probably don't need it.
Known for submitting field reports that begin with: “I rooted a few more.”

My Psychiatrist Sister
Contributing Editor, Human Behavior Desk
Specialty Areas:
• Human behavior
• Family dynamics
• Why people do the things they do
• Identifying the story beneath the story
Notable Contribution: Regularly reminds the publication that every gardening story eventually becomes a people story.

My Other Physician Sister
Global Floral Editor-at-Large, Southern Rose Correspondent
Keukenhof expert who also specializes in heat, humidity, and roses that may or may not be arriving.

My Physician Cousin
Contributing Editor, West Coast Bureau
Specialty Areas:
• Story development
• Editorial insight
• Asking one innocent question and accidentally creating three months of content
Notable Contribution:
“How do you come up with stories?”

Our Barefoot Neighbor
Head of Neighborhood Relations
Responsibilities include:
• Community engagement
• Garden observations
• Accidental content generation

Director of Deer Affairs
Position vacant. No qualified applicants.

Chief Rabbit Negotiator
Department dissolved following repeated diplomatic failures.

The Shower Coleus
Special Correspondent
Coverage Areas:
• Family diplomacy
• Outdoor shower beautification
• Narrative development
Notable Achievement: Successfully altered the course of a family plant distribution event.

Editorial Advisory Board
Comprised of family members, neighbors, gardeners, and unsuspecting individuals who accidentally become part of the story.