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Georgene A. Bramlage - The Wallace Agency, Roanoke, VA

Georgene Bramlage has been Feature Writer for Landscaping since the early days of Suite101over a decade ago. She was formerly Suite 101 Garden Community Manager and is pleased to now be Topic Editor for Landscaping here at Suite101. Bramlage is a free-lance garden and landscape writer with articles in a number of print publications particularly garden and food-related articles for a regional New England newspaper. She has also been a member of the Garden Writers Association since 1980.

Previous and concurrent with writing projects, Bramlage taught biology and horticulture at the college level and owned a small landscape / garden design service in western MA - an American Plant Hardiness Growing Zone 4-5. Bramlage now lives in the Roanoke (VA) Valley area - an American Plant Hardiness Growing Zone 7 landscape. Her writing and landscaping examples, however, represent many private and public gardens in the U.S. and out of the country.

Bramlage travels and photographs extensively to increase her powers of observation, gain knowledge of plant and landscape associations, and regional and cultural differences in landscape designs. She also studied for and received a Certificate of Merit in Ornamental Plants - Series I from Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA.

Bramlage's Editor's Choice Awards include:

• How to Research and Plan Safe Comfortable Steps,
• 'Venus' & 'Hartlage Wine' Calycanthus Cultivars,
• Yellow-Foliage Plants Echo Color of the Year,
• Flowering Plants for Southern Garden Landscapes and
• Japanese-style Landscape Gardens.

Please feel free to contact her about landscape-related questions by sending an e-mail to Georgene Bramlage.

Please visit her other web sites:

• The Roanoke, VA Flower and Tree Examiner,
• Landscape Gardening at Squidoo,
• The Witch's Garden,
• Landscaping Photographs, and
• Polish Culture: Beyond Pierogi and Cabbage.