Tough Plants for Southern Gardens Low Care, No Care, Tried and True Winners

Felder Rushing is a 10th-generation Southern gardener whose ancestors moved from Virginia to South Carolina in the 1600s, then to Mississippi in the late 1700s. His quirky, overstuffed, low-maintenance cottage garden with its "yard art" has been featured in several books, many magazines, and newspapers, including Southern Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Garden Design, Landscape Architecture, House and Garden, The New York Times, and others. He has studied in gardens all across North America, Europe, South America, and Africa. Felder's twice-weekly garden columns and live, call-in radio program are syndicated, and he has had hundreds of articles and photographs published in over twenty-five magazines, including Fine Gardening, National Geographic, Organic Gardening, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record. He has written or co-authored ten garden books, appears regularly on HGTV and the Discovery Channel, and lectures every year from coast to coast. He serves as contributing editor for Horticulture Magazine and Garden Design. Felder is a national director of the Garden Writers Association, serves on the board of directors of the American Horticulture Society, and recently retired after nearly twenty-five years as Mississippi's "consumer horticulturist" with the MSU Extension Service. One of his proudest moments was in 1990 when he was presented with an honorary membership in the Garden Clubs of Mississippi-of which his horticulturist great-grandmother was a charter member in 1936. Rushing, who believes that too many of his fellow horticulture experts complicate things unnecessarily, says, "We are daunted, not dumb." His lifework has been trying to make gardening as easy as it is fun.Rushing, Felder is the author of 'Tough Plants for Southern Gardens Low Care, No Care, Tried and True Winners', published 2003 under ISBN 9781591860020 and ISBN 1591860024.