THE SELF-TAUGHT GARDENER: Learning from others - The Berkshire Edge

THE SELF-TAUGHT GARDENER: Learning from others - The Berkshire Edge

When I first started writing this column ten years ago, I named it “The Self-Taught Gardener” with the idea that we learn about plants and the natural world through observation and through others. I did not study botany and design in college but fell in love with working with the landscape when I acquired a site of my own to work on. I took classes at the botanic garden, went to lectures at Metro Hort, and visited gardens through the Garden Cons…