Erica Glasener is a horticulturist, author, and lecturer and the award-winning host of HGTV's A Gardener's Diary for the last 14 years. As host of this popular TV show, Erica has introduced her audience to gardeners, horticulture professionals, specialty plant growers, landscape architects, and more from across the country. In 2011 she received a Garden Media Award from the Perennial Plant Association for her promotion of perennials through writing and lectures. Currently, Erica provides online content for the Southern Living Plant Collection and for Fiskars as a garden expert. She also writes a bimonthly blog for Gibbs Gardens, located in Ball Ground, Georgia. Erica is the original co-author of Georgia Gardener's Guide (Cool Springs Press, 2004).www.ericaglasener.

com Walter Reeves is known as "the Georgia Gardener." He is the award-winning host of the popular Georgia radio program The Lawn and Garden Show with Walter Reeves. He is the same in person as he is on-air: an easygoing, instantly likeable, and funny guy with an immense knowledge of plants and gardening. As a University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agent (now retired after 25 years of service), Walter gained an enormously in-depth knowledge of plants, plant culture, and plant problems as he helped educate the public about gardening. Walter is the original co-author of Georgia Gardener's Guide (Cool Springs Press, 2004) as well as the co-author of Month-by-Month Gardening in Georgia (Cool Springs Press, 2007).www.walterreeves.com.