Peter Loewer has written for all the national gardening magazines, and has written and illustrated several gardening books, including The Wild Gardener, which was named one of the 75 Great Gardening Books by the American Horticultural Society. He also wrote Solving Deer Problems and Solving Weed Problems. His radio show, The Wild Gardener, can be heard on National Public Radio in North Carolina. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.THOMAS SWICK is the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the author of the memoir, Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland