Audrey Stallsmith
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Name: Audrey Stallsmith
Title: Contributing Writer
A freelance writer for over 30 years, Audrey Stallsmith has specialized in garden-related nonfiction for the last 10 years. She has been writing for BobVila.com since October of 2020 and is also a mystery novelist and photographer.
Expertise and Experience
Audrey is the author of the Thyme Will Tell gardening-related mystery series from WaterBrook Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. A former master gardener with over 30 years of horticultural experience, she has been published in Woman’s World, Birds & Blooms, Writer’s Digest, and more. She has also written hundreds of gardening articles for such sites as eHow, SFGATE, and Dave’s Garden, as well as her own Thyme Will Tell site.
Winner of a second-place award in a Horticulture Magazine photography contest and occasional correspondent for the Greenville Record-Argus, Audrey also has contributed poultry articles to Grit’s Community Chickens site, Acres U.S.A., and Farming Magazine. Audrey lives on a small farm in Pennsylvania where a menagerie of pets, free-ranging poultry, and occasionally escaped livestock make horticulture a challenge—but a highly enjoyable one!
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A Three Sisters garden follows the Native American tradition of planting corn, pole beans, and squash closely together to allow all three easy-to-grow vegetables to benefit from their pro...
Gardeners often have trouble remembering determinate vs. indeterminate tomato differences, but it’s an important distinction that affects how they care for their tomato plants. According ...
The yellow or chartreuse cultivars of creeping Jenny, such as ‘Aurea’ and ‘Goldilocks’ types, have become popular as ground covers and spillers for container gardens. However, Lysimachia ...
Packed with vitamins and flavor, raspberries are growing in popularity in home and restaurant dishes. Since lusciously soft raspberries are more difficult to ship than firmer berries, you...
Modern winter sowing, which uses repurposed milk jugs and other plastic containers, was popularized by Trudi Davidoff, who didn’t have the space for starting seedlings indoors during wint...
Thorny plants, many of which actually “make their points” to discourage animals from eating their foliage, may provide another benefit to homeowners brave enough to plant them. According ...
Agave americana is called the American century plant because grumbling gardeners once thought it took that long to flower. However, the wait usually isn’t more than 30 years, with some ag...
Bone meal is sometimes sold as a livestock feed additive or a supplement for people. However, in the gardening world, it’s most often used as the phosphorus-contributing element in organi...
Often sold around Saint Patrick’s Day, shamrock plants (Oxalis spp. ) have leaves composed of three to four leaflets that look much like shamrocks or four-leaf clovers. Although they aren...
Are all types of wildflowers native plants? According to Iowa State University, there’s a distinct difference between the two: Native plants were present in an area before people settled ...