Marianne Willburn is a gardening speaker, columnist and author of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them (2021), and Big Dreams, Small Garden (2017). After years of occasional guest rants, she began an on-going digital correspondence with Scott Beuerlein in 2019, and officially joined GardenRant in 2020.
A weekly newspaper columnist for over a decade, she also frequently contributes to Better Homes and Gardens, The American Gardener, and other digital and print magazines; and has won national awards for her popular column and blog, Small Town Gardener. Marianne has recently begun working as a guide with CarexTours, a D.C. based tour company dedicated to exploring public and private European gardens in a small group experience.
Marianne believes strongly that you should never wait for the ‘perfect space’ to create a restful garden oasis for yourself and your family; and she has spent much of her gardening life in small city and suburban gardens in places as diverse as California, the United Kingdom, and the Mid-Atlantic. In 2013, she began gardening intensively and exhaustively on ten acres in a rural corner of Northern Virginia.
Contact Marianne by email: marianne@smalltowngardener.com
Articles by Marianne Willburn
By Marianne Willburn|2021-01-20T15:27:46-05:00February 2, 2015|
by Marianne Wilburn Recently, C.L. Fornari challenged garden writers to consider the way in which we portray the act of gardening. She asked us to discuss whether our tendency to [...]
By Marianne Willburn|2021-02-04T09:10:11-05:00January 30, 2014|
A productive weekend is behind me. I've re-organized the shed, wired in a new light for the barn cats, planted six five-gallon Itea and marked out the corners for the [...]
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