Laura D. Eisener
Laura is a landscape designer in Massachusetts and a teacher in the Landscape Institute of Arnold Arboretum. She currently also teaches course at the New England Wild Flower Society and New York Botanical Garden, and is a popular garden club speaker. Her landscape designs are mostly for private residences, and her main interests are in native plants and naturalistic landscapes.
Laura is the Massachusetts Editor of People, Places, and Plants Magazine, the magazine for Northeast Gardeners. She has also written articles for American Nurseryman, APLD News, Wild Ones, and the HortResources Newsletter. For several years she has been president of HortResources, active in the Tree Committee of her town, and a member of many horticultural organizations. In 2007 she was awarded a silver medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
She graduated from Connecticut College in New London, CT with a Bachelor of Arts degree in a double major of Botany and Anthropology and earned a Master of Landscape Architecture Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. She was a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts, and for 11 years was Curriculum Coordinator of the Landscape Design Program as well as instructor at Endicott College in Beverly. From 2002-3 she was co-host of THE ROOT OF THE MATTER on Brockton station WBET , a garden radio program.
Latest Articles
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Cupholder Bouquets
A great inexpensive last-minute hostess gift is a bouquet from your garden.
Jul 10, 2008
- Laura D. Eisener
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Grow A Great Native Border!
This pink and lilac garden highlights showy North American native species that will be colorful from June to early fall.
Jul 10, 2008
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Gardening With Wild Indigo
Wild Indigos are good meadow plants but also look attractive and are well-behaved in a perennial border, not crowding out their neighbors.
Jun 29, 2008
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Three Cheers For Oswego Tea
Oswego Tea or Bee Balm and other species of Monarda are among the most colorful natives for the summer garden.
Jun 23, 2008
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Northern Spring Perennials
These super-hardy early flowering perennials are great in the gardens and the wild in zones 4 and colder.
Jun 2, 2008
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Growing Native Annual Vines
North American native annual vines are colorful through the summer and easy to grow from seed.
Apr 9, 2008
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The Laurel In Winter
Nothing surpasses the lush green of Mountain Laurel foliage in the midst of winter.
Apr 9, 2008
- Laura D. Eisener
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Lovely Camassias
Camassias are very showy North American bulbs, as easily grown as tulips. Edible yet deer resistant, the flowers offer reliable spring color.
Feb 6, 2008
- Laura D. Eisener
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