Grab your toolbelt and freshen up on your spring gardening chops! Join us for a roundup of several great selections for your garden bookshelf. Meet some of the BLOOM Imprint authors, smart, creative and inventive women who share their love of design, flowers, the garden and nature.
These women will leave you inspired to reconnect with the soil, nature, and your roots.
Meet the authors:
Teresa J. Speight, Garden Writer + Author of Black Flora: Teresa J. Speight is a mother, grandmother, steward of our land, garden writer, and a history lover devoted to her community. Teresa is the Urban Gardening Chair and the liaison to the National Butterfly Garden at the U.S. Botanic Garden for National Garden Clubs Inc. She is the founder and president of the Jabali Amani Garden Collective, a garden club for African American women in gardening. Her blog and podcast Cottage in the Court offers curated garden experiences for small groups and one-on-one garden coaching, specializing in earth-friendly practices.
Cynthia Zamaria, Home + Garden Creative and Author of House + Flower: Known for her character-filled spaces and carefree flower displays, Cynthia sustainably grows small-batch specialty blooms and designs unfussy seasonal arrangements. This soulful aesthetic spills into Cynthia's interiors which are true-to-the-space, trendless mash-ups of scale, texture, and color. Cynthia and her husband Graham share a passion for saving forgotten houses and have restored a range of period properties.
Jennifer O'Neal, Master Gardener + Author of Small Farm, Big Dreams: Jenn O’Neal is an Iowa native who inherited her grandmother and mother’s love of flowers. Inspired by summers spent on her grandparent's farm helping the matriarchs in her family sow, tend, and harvest lush garden blooms, she has become a Master Gardener, long-time floral designer, and flower farmer. With her husband Adam, the O'Neals own and operate PepperHarrow Farm, a 20 acre farm located in Central Iowa, where they cultivate flowers on 7.5 acres.
Robin Avni: Co-Founder and Creative Director of Bloom Imprint Publishing Company: A creative veteran in the media + high-tech industries, Robin's experience includes 15+ years in the publishing industry and eight years at Microsoft in design and creative management. She has successfully managed innovative, award-winning design teams and high-profile projects as well as receiving numerous national design awards and photo editing honors for her own work. Robin has produced 10 books, including collaborating with Debra on the Slow Flowers Journal.