Spellbound Garden Writing & Consultation
Edward Lyon
ABOUT ME!
Ed Lyon is a retired professional horticulturist and gardener with 25 years experience in the public garden field. He most recently served as Director of Reiman Gardens, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, a position from which he retired in May 2024. He was formally Director, Allen Centennial Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin. His public garden career includes serving as Symposia & Special Programs Coordinator for Chicago Botanic Garden, Director of Education for Olbrich Botanical Gardens and Executive Director for the Rotary Botanical Gardens.
Through Spellbound Garden Writing & Consultation, he writes and speaks for both public and professional audiences. He has written a book called "Growing the Midwest Garden" for Timber Press, released May, 2015. He has written the “Ask the Expert” column for Wisconsin Gardening magazine as well as feature articles plus a regular regional report on southern Wisconsin for Chicagoland Gardening plus feature articles and continues to write for State-by-State Gardening. Unfortunately those magazines are no longer in publication.
He continues to write for Fine Gardening and occasionally other national magazines . He teaches, lectures and has served as featured/keynote speaker for a number of conferences. He developed on-line multi-class tutorials on garden design for Garden Gate Magazine (AIM Publications) and on shade gardening for Fine Gardening magazine. The links and sample videos are included on this site.
Most importantly, he is an avid gardener familiar with dirt under his fingernails.
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Edward Lyon
4943 Chestnut Street Apt #2
Philadelphia, PA 19139
608.658.3456