Meet Susan Littlefield:A Lifelong Gardener and Garden Writer
Meet Susan Littlefield
Susan Littlefield has been gardening since grade school, when, much to her father's dismay, she convinced her mother to let a neighboring farmer plow up half the backyard so that she could grow vegetables. Since then, she's continued to grow vegetables and berries, but has added flowers and woody plants to the mix. She loves combining trees, shrubs and flowers into pleasing landscape designs and is continually pushing the envelope in her Zone 4 garden to see what supposedly non-hardy plants will make it through the winters in Vermont. She is especially happy with the Stewartia koreana tree that has graced her garden with its large, white flowers for the last 10 years.
Susan has degrees in biology and plant and soil science, and has been a garden writer and editor, served as ornamental horticulturist for the Vermont Extension Service and worked in both the wholesale and retail nursery industries.
