About
In and Around the Garden.net speaks of my expressive dance with soil, flowers, horticulture, and journalism. The former reared by simple surroundings on my grandparents’ dairy where a plump vegetable plot, playful snapdragons, and green clover fields instilled affection for gardening and a country lifestyle.
The seduction of journalism began when I acquired a diary as a girl and with it the desire to fill vacant pages. Despite a thirst to pen school-day events and mystical dreams, choosing to be a writer did not occur to me until I was a wife and mother shadowed with cancer and all its frightful temperaments. Thankfully, here I am seventeen years later dancing with plants and words, sharing an online sentiment of horticulture interests and country animation in and around the garden. I hope you enjoy the symphony.
My writing credentials include working as a regular contributor for The Best of Country Escapes. Other articles have appeared in Romantic Homes, Mary Engelbreit’s Leading the Artful Life, Country Accents, and regional magazines. My gardening credentials include Amador Master Gardener and over twenty years of horticulture practices under my fingernails.
Dianne Marie Andre
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