Veronica Lorson Fowler is the author of numerous garden books, including two on water gardening. She is a former newspaper garden columnist and was a garden editor at Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications. Her writing has been published in Better Homes and Gardens, Horticulture, Country Home, and many other home and garden magazines. She is the co-creator of The Iowa Gardener website and e-newsletter (www.theiowagardener. com). There Veronica shares nifty tips and tricks relevant to Iowa’s locale, updates from Iowa experts on weather trends and warnings, updates on pest and disease issues affecting Iowans, features of the newest and best plants for an Iowa garden, and special articles about upcoming garden shows, plant saleVeronica Lorson Fowler is the author of numerous garden books, including two on water gardening. She is a former newspaper garden columnist and was a garden editor at Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications. Her writing has been published in Better Homes and Gardens, Horticulture, Country Home, and many other home and garden magazines. She is the co-creator of The Iowa Gardener website and e-newsletter (www.theiowagardener. com). There Veronica shares nifty tips and tricks relevant to Iowa’s locale, updates from Iowa experts on weather trends and warnings, updates on pest and disease issues affecting Iowans, features of the newest and best plants for an Iowa garden, and special articles about upcoming garden shows, plant sales, horticultural events, festivals, and tours.
A Kansas farm girl who grew up gardening, she now lives in Ames, Iowa, where she tends her own extensive landscape, which includes one water garden. She describes herself as a “complete garden geek” who raised her three children amid a sometimes messy but always very varied garden...more