About Doug Green
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One of the most published of Canadian garden writers (8 print-books and numerous e-books) he's been a radio-host, a syndicated newspaper columnist, and magazine writer for the trade and consumer publications.
And yes, delivering organic or environmentally sustainable advice and answering questions from homeowners for all that time.
Plants
He owned and ran his own greenhouse/nursery business in Athens, Ontario named Simple Gifts Farm (hence the old website name of simplegiftsfarm.com) for 23 years. This was 20,000 square feet of retail greenhouses plus associated nursery growing space. Growing 1800 varieties of perennial flowers and 600 varieties of unusual annuals, Doug enjoyed his time growing.He shut the nursery down in 1998 to write full time.
Internet
In 2005 he transitioned from print to the Net and now writes for his own website publishing company delivering over a million articles a month (the largest single-author gardening website(s) in the world and one of the biggest overall). He produces articles, newsletters, ebooks, video and answers questions to help gardeners with organic techniques and become successful gardeners.
Books
*Landscape Magic: how to renovate a garden.
*Tender Roses for Tough Climates: how to grow tender roses in the north
*Bulbs: how to grow bulbs
*The Everything Lawn Care Book:
*Roses for Canadians for Dummies:
*Gardening Wisdom: how to garden using old fashioned techniques (major award winner)
*Perennials All Season: how to have a perennial garden bloom all summer long. Doug provided almost all of the over 250 photographs for this book
*Vegetable Gardening for Canadians: how to grow vegetables in our diverse country.
About
Doug currently lives on an island off the city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada out in Lake Ontario and is developing a new garden there. When not in the garden, he can found driving his 77 Spitfire on the way to sail his mahogany Folkboat in the 1000 Islands region of the St. Lawrence River.
Doug is the proud father of four children - all following their own dreams - and the happy partner of Mayo, an heirloom seed expert who encourages his writerly ways.
