Nina Koziol

I'm a horticulturist and garden writer who tends plants on an acre about 40 miles from Chicago. I've been teaching horticulture, garden design and residential landscape design history at the Chicago Botanic Garden and The Morton Arboretum since 1997. I wrote garden articles for the Chicago Tribune for 22 years as well as for Chicagoland Gardening, Old-House Journal, Organic Gardening and The American Gardener. I was born in Paris, France, to a father who was a life-long, decorated military photographer. He met my mother in England during WWII. I credit my love of all things gardening--plants, birds, insects and clouds--to my mum who encouraged me at age seven to do my science project on the parts of a flower.