You Had Me at Gardening

Meet the team

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Darren Sheriff

CONTRIBUTOR EXTRORDINAIRE

Darren Sheriff is an SCNLA Certified Professional Nurseryman, A Charleston County Master Gardener Emeritus and is the manager for Terra Bella Garden Center in North Charleston, SC. With his 220+ Camellias, he is an active member and president of the Coastal Carolina Camellia Society, the South Carolina State Director for the American Camellia Society, the founder of the Lowcountry Fruit Growers Society as well as a past president.

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Marijke Puts

FABULOUS CONTRIBUTOR

Hi! I’m Marijke, although I go by Mari. I’m a houseplant fanatic writer turned plant blogger with the launch of my houseplant-centered website Houseplant Central. Not surprising, since I grew up in a home that probably contained 50+ houseplants at all times! When I moved into my own first apartment I quickly realized something was missing, which marks the moment my personal obsession with greenery began.

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Gail Edwards

CONTRIBUTOR EXTRORDINAIRE

I have been a fan of indoor plants for over 40 yearsand have over 60 plants in my home. I bought my first plant, a Schefflera, when I was a teenager and slowly began collecting and propagating different varieties of plants. Now that I am retired, I also devote time to an outdoor flower garden and a vegetable garden in the summer months. I live in Canada where the

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Florina Ionescu

RETIRED CONTRIBUTOR - GREEN THUMB MASTER

Hi! My name is Florina and I’ve been a plant junkie for 4 years now. I love nature, hiking, reading, watching movies, and spending time with my friends and my cat. I’m also very enthusiastic about the World Wide Web – I think it’s an amazing source of info and a great channel for communication.

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Denis Sgarbura

YHMAG'S Retired Contributor

Hello. I’m Denis. My passion for growing plants started when I was around 10 or 11 years old. My grandpa loved to take care of roses. He had a breathtaking rose garden. I wanted one badly. So, I started my own. I was stoked when my roses showed signs of growth. It became a competition: my garden vs. his garden. He won every time, but I never gave up and did my best to make it extraordinary. I read everything there was to know about roses and how to grow them.

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Mike Murphy

Mike grew up gardening with his parents and grandparents. He enjoys his backyard orchard of dwarf fruit trees, raspberry and blackberry patches, and raised garden boxes. In addition to his perennials, Mike enjoys sprouting new fruit and vegetable seeds every spring. He not only enjoys outdoor gardening but his twin 9' tall fiddle leaf figs tickle his fancy as well. He has been trained in waterwise landscaping and has installed his own landscaping and foodscaping property that not only saves thousands of gallons of water per year but is also beautiful and produces much of his family's fruit and vegetables. He loves operating skid steers and mini exacavtors. Mike is also an amateur aquascaper and a survival gardening enthusiast.

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