PLANTS

I am a new freelance writer who has just peeked into the door of this writing room on the internet. I also write for Helium and have a few Squidoo lenses as well. I love plants, animals, and anything that has to do with the natural earth, so thats what I tend to research and study in school and out. My lot in life is to acquire freedoms right.

Born and raised in Southern California I have enjoyed a rich life filled with wonderful family. I enjoy gardening and playing with my grandchildren. I am always ready to see a festival or arts and crafts fair. I owned my own Interior Plant Care service company for many years and am familiar with the southern part of California having hiked and explored many of the local mountain trails. I especially love reading, sewing and searching for wildflowers and edible native plants. I also volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America as a merit badge counselor and troop committee member.

Kate is a middle school teacher in Tucson, Arizona. She loves to work on her native plants garden, attempt show tunes on the piano, and experience new adventures with new friends.

Linda Strader lives in Southern Arizona and starting writing professionally in 2009. She writes for several online magazines and newspapers on desert gardening, landscape design and southwest desert plants. She is currently teaching classes for her community in the care of desert plants. She has 30 years of experience in desert gardening, plants and landscape design.

My name is Bob Walsh. I have been growing tropical plants in plant hardiness zone 5 for more than 20 years. The last 10-plus years I focused on developing successful growing techniques for plumerias, frangipani, both indoors and outdoors, which resulted in the publication of my step-by-step guide, How To Grow Plumeria - Frangipani Anytime Anywhere.

I have been growing tropical plants in zone 5 for more than 20 years. Now I want to share my passion with fellow tropical plant lovers by providing the FREE ebook, Grow Your Own Tropical Garden, which was designed by myself, Bob Walsh.

Cindy Pierce is a part time freelance writer with a deep love for nature. Her love of nature includes, and often transcends, the scientific aspects of life on this rich earth. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Cindy is a city girl with a country heart. Recently entering her 5th decade of life, she continues her studies in geology and horticulture. However Cindy believes experience is her greatest teacher, as it truly is with all of us. Since the age of 14, Cindy adapted, as most of us do, to working for a living in the corporate world. Even so, the call of nature never left her heart. She plants an organic vegetable garden on her suburban lot every year, feeds the wild birds daily, has two cats, an elderly dog and tropical fish as pets, and enjoys exploring new locales and terrain. In addition to her love of nature, Cindy is fiercly loyal to her friends and family. Although she has no children, she considers her nieces, nephews and the children and grandchildren of her friends as her own. It is her goal as a writer to share stories and information that will not only entertain her readers, but will enlighten them to the divine kinship we have to each other and to all living things.

Bamboo is a diverse group of grasses with over 1200 species. Bamboo plants may be used both indoors and outdoors for many purposes. Indoor bamboo plants may be used ornamentally to improve your home or office aesthetics, as lucky bamboo, as a gift, or just to achieve that feng shui that you need. Outdoor bamboo plants serve various purposes including providing privacy, beautiful hedges, awesome landscapes, and ornamental aesthetics. Did you know that Bamboo plants convert carbon dioxide (CO2) to oxygen 5 times more efficiently than a stand of traditional woody trees? Bamboo is quickly gaining popularity as one of the worlds fastest growing wood producing plants, and provides us with sustainable and renewable sources of timber, pulp, and fiber. Buy a bamboo plant gift for indoor or outdoor use for someone you care about today.

Melissa Sokulski is a writer, acupuncturist and mother living in Pittsburgh, PA. She runs The Birch Center for Health in Pittsburgh, and also Food Under Foot, an educational website all about wild edible plants.

Jessica is a biology student with a passion for plants and writing.

Yaakov Gelobter I grew up in Southern California where I developed an early apreciation for the land and human life as part of the ecosphere. I was active in vocational agriculture in High School, mentored by Dr. Colin Wainwright. I recieved degrees from California Polytechnic University, while recieving training in Homeopothy, Tai Chi and Wine production. After college, I emigrated to Israel where I now reside in the Rural Judean Hills. This area, 700- 960 meters above sea level was left to fallow since biblical times, when it was a major center for growing medicinal plants.

I have a background in Landscape design, I know a great deal about house plants and perennials and also enjoy decorating and staging homes.I want to share my knowledge and love of gardening and home decor.

I am a working mother of 4, I have been married to a great guy for 11 years, I love to travel. My children are in sports so I stay pretty busy..I also love cooking, and taking care of flowers and plants.

animals, plants, nature, science, religion, travel, nightlife

Ms. Melisa Pereira, III year B.Pharmacy, Sinhgad Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is skilled at Formulation development & worked with 2pharma companies in Mumbai,India. Skills include research involving screening of plants for their medicinal use.

I have a strong interest in anything having to do with plants, food, and medicine. I am almost finished with my BA in cultural anthropology and am looking into MA and phD programs for ethnobotany.

Sarah is a devoted wife and mother of 3 young boys.

Unwirklich is a stay at home, work at home, learn at home, college student, mother, and wife. She has two toddlers, Torsten Wilhelm Vin Zant, who is 3, and Rafe Vladimir, who is 2, and is pregnant with her third child. She also parents a Giant Alaskan Malamute, and a house full of well-groomed, unusual plants. She currently writes for Yahoo! Shine, Yahoo! Voices, Yahoo! Finance, and on occasion Yahoo! News, Yahoo! TV and Shopping. She is a featured parenting writer for the Yahoo Contributor Network. Unwirklich is currently writing her first book, How to Raise Kids Who would Survive the Apocalypse. She is available for private contract work.

Moravia is an eclectic person who enjoys life in every aspect. She endeavors to take nothing too seriously, laughing as she skips down her own unique path, and yet she is also very passionate about things she finds important. She is particularly passionate about animals, the environment, and writing. Moravia is someone who finds possibilities more compelling than current realities, and as such, is a devotee of science fiction and fantasy and a tireless force nudging the world towards positive change. She is outgoing and curious, which inspires a deep interest in anything exotic or unfamiliar, including other cultures, other time periods, foreign languages, different natural environments and ecosystems, unusual plants and animals, and exotic foods and foreign cuisines. This curiosity entices her to try new things, seek out new adventures, and travel to as many different places as possible. Paradoxically, she is temperamentally a homebody, who is deeply attached to her own personal little corner of paradise. The most important thing in Moravia's life is her multi-species family. Favorite quotation: "Two roads diverged in the woods, and I - I took the manhole." (Brian Hirsch, parodying Robert Frost)

I am a Horticulturist. I enjoy working with plants and sharing them with people. I have taught horticulture and landscape design, as well as worked directly in this field, for over 20 years.

I was born in Minnesota, I love carnivorous plants.

I am a mother, wife and homemaker. I love to garden and collect house plants. I have a dog and two cats and some fish. I can be emotional but never dull

I enjoy working with plants and being in nature. I find it fascinating and peaceful.

I am a 51 year old widow, of six children, and 15 grandchildren.. Finally living a dream come true, a cottage by the lake, and a house full of plants, and children and grandchildren full of love..

NY City baby, post WW2 California transplant; 1950's Pasadena kid, raised on pasta and racial prejudice (neither would stick). Married at 18, five children at 26; college degree at 55; first grew kids, then grew plants; once a school photographer; now a respite-care Program

I am 39 and have been in construction for 20 years. I help to build winery's, refinery's, chemical plants and pharmaceutical plants. I am x-ray certified as a welder, I am a layout pipefitter, and I program and run computerized orbital welding equiptment. I am into cars.

I'm a homeschooling mom of 1, am into carniverous plants, aquarium fish, and karate. Love reading autobiographies on the founding fathers as well as literature on the early history of american education.

I am a landscape designer located in Austin, Texas. I enjoy researching plants and creating landscapes that can be enjoyed with all the senses in all seasons.

i am a graduate of national diploma in science laboratory technology,i graduated out of the moshood abiola plytechnique ojere abeokuta,ogun state nigeria.presently i am doing my higher diplomar in microbiology.am a computer technician i love plants animals nature generally.i

I'm an artist. Shown in my avatar is one of my mini sculptures, in the palm of a hand. I have knowledge & interest in animals & art, a degree in animal behavior & have worked with animals all my life. I aim to correct misconceptions, provide better places to look for info, & help homeless pets. Besides dogs and cats, did you know you can adopt small pets, birds, and more? I also publish poetry, product reviews, photos, & piano music. Hobbies include observing wild life, learning about edible wild plants, organic gardening with native plants, and finding new ways to save money and endangered species with eco-friendly, green living like recycling, re-using, and cleaning with vinegar. Go green, save green :)