David C. Deardorff

Author, artist, photographer and lecturer, Dr. David Deardorff holds a PhD in Botany from the University of Washington. He has been on the faculty of the University of Hawaii in Plant Pathology, and Washington State University in Water Resources, where he taught the Master Gardener program. He also co-founded Plants of the Southwest in Santa Fe, NM, one of the first native plant nurseries in the U.S. He has directed major plant research projects, plant tissue culture programs, grown all kinds of plants in his own backyard, and worked at retail garden centers. He has over thirty years of experience as a plantsman.