About the Author
Matt Mattus is Senior Director of Horticulture at the American Horticultural Society and a longtime leader in the gardening world. He has served as a trustee of the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill and as past president of the North American Rock Garden Society. A widely published writer, his work appears in leading gardening magazines, and he is the author of Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening and Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening. Matt lives and gardens with his partner of forty years, Joseph Philip, on the same property where his parents and grandfather gardened before him—a continuity of place that spans more than 125 years. Together they remain deeply involved in New England’s plant societies, often opening their greenhouse in winter and their gardens in summer to fellow plant enthusiasts. They share their home with three much-loved Irish Terriers.
