Kathleen Fisher, for ten years the editor of the American Horticultural Society magazine "American Gardening," is the author of a 1999 Rodale book on herbal medicine & a book on water gardening for Creative Homeowners Press. With a six-acre garden, she is experienced in growing shrubs of all kinds. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Frances Tenenbaum is the author of several garden books and the editor of the Taylor's Guide series at Houghton Mifflin.