"Because everyone yearns to play in the dirt…"

     In her constant, undying pursuit of all things garden-related, Tovah gets her hands dirty both outside and indoors. Not only is she a perennial, heirloom, vegetable and cottage gardener of fanatical proportions, but Tovah’s areas of specialty also include decades of experience with tropicals and exotics (especially begonias) in windowsills, greenhouses, and otherwise. Her passion for all things growing and encased in glass has led to her most recent book, The New Terrarium, to be published by Clarkson Potter in February 2009. Check out her lecture schedule for a bookstore, talk or demonstration near you.

     You can also catch the gardening contagion and read about Tovah’s successes, foibles, and travels on a monthly basis through her articles in La Vie Claire, Connecticut Cottage & Garden, Country Home, Country Gardens, Nature’s Garden, Horticulture, Garden Design, Connecticut magazine and The Litchfield County Times as well as many other publications. Read about her mentors in other books that Tovah has authored including Tasha Tudor’s Garden (Houghton Mifflin, 1994) and View from a Sketchbook: Nature through the Eyes of Marjolein Bastin (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2003). Or watch Tovah and her friends in action on the PBS television gardening series “Cultivating Life,” where she serves as an editorial producer for the show.