Judy Lowe (Columbia, South Carolina) has been writing for more than twenty-five years. She has been the garden editor of the Chattanooga Times-Free Press and The Christian Science Monitor and has been extremely active in Garden Writers Association (a group of more than 2,000 members), serving on the board for fourteen years and as president for two years. Lowe's books include Herbs! Creative Herb Garden Themes and Projects, Month-by-Month Gardening in Tennessee and Kentucky, and Ortho's All About Pruning. Her numerous magazine articles have appeared in Woman's Day and Southern Living.