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Garden Maintenance for Real Life

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Even though we know our gardens don’t have to be perfect, it’s hard not to feel like we’re constantly falling behind. How do we determine if we need to work smarter for better results, or if the garden is in need of some serious surgery? Marianne will ask – and answer – some tough questions to help us re-balance our lives with our outside spaces, giving maintenance tips and a bit of perspective to gardeners feeling overwhelmed.

Marianne Willburn

About Marianne Willburn

Marianne Willburn is a gardening author, international speaker and columnist at The American Gardener, GardenRant and MarianneWillburn.com. She is the author of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them (2021) and Big Dreams, Small Garden (2017), and has spent much of her gardening life in small city and suburban gardens in places as diverse as California, England and the Mid-Atlantic. A regular contributor to Better Homes and Gardens and other digital and print magazines, Marianne has been a newspaper columnist for over a decade and is the recipient of several Gold and Silver Media Awards from Garden Communicators International (formerly GWA). Her most recent book Tropical Plants and How To Love Them was awarded the Gold Media Award for Book Writing by Garden Communicators International in 2022 and shortlisted in 2021 for The Peter Seabrook Practical Book of The Year. She is a graduate of University College London.