Liz Primeau has been gardening for nearly fifty years. Gardening became a satisfying hobby that grew and became a career when she became the founding editor of Canadian Gardening magazine in 1990. She was a magazine editor and writer for 30 years and now gives lectures on gardens and garden design. She is the author of numerous books about gardening including her best selling book Front Yard Gardens: Growing More than Grass, and her gardening memoir, My Natural History: The Evolution of a Gardener.