About The Author

I am a landscape/garden designer, consultant, speaker, garden blogger and author based in Sayville, Long Island, New York. Involved in the design field since 1996, I am a member of the National Garden Bureau, American Horticultural Society and Garden Communicators International, and keep up to date by regularly attending various landscaping and horticultural conferences and subscribing to numerous horticultural publications. I possess such a deep passion for gardening and design that my own personal garden was invited as a participant in a local garden tour in 2010, 2018 and 2025. Deciding to further expand my horizons, I have authored and published six gardening books, A Guide to Northeastern Gardening, Landscape Design Combinations, Dream, Garden, Grow!-Musings of a Lifetime Gardener, Gardening by Month: A Monthly Guide to Planning the Northeastern & Mid-Atlantic Garden, Shade Gardening for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic and The Houseplant Guide: How to Easily Select & Maintain Indoor Plants.

I have a true passion for horticulture and design and believe that good communication between designer and client is the key to achieving the ideal landscape. I am involved in garden writing so that I can share my knowledge and love of gardening with others. With shovel in hand since the age of five, gardening has been and always will be a part of me.

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Landscape Design By Lee: A Guide to Northeastern Gardening

I am a landscape/garden designer, consultant, blog author and published book author, involved in the horticultural industry since 1996. A Guide to Landscape Design & Maintenance-Long Island is my newest blog addition which focuses on a variety of topics dealing with landscape design and general garden maintenance. While monthly timing of topics is aimed towards conditions for zone 7, the information presented here can certainly be used by most other hardiness zones. Thank you for visiting!