Lifelong gardener Ray Rogers is a garden editor and writer, working on more than 40 garden titles. He has written for The American Gardener magazine, Green Scene, and American Cottage Gardening and is coauthor of The Philadelphia Flower Show: Celebrating 175 Years. Ray has appeared on a variety of radio and TV programs, including Martha Stewart Living, and has taught in the George Washington University Horticulture Program. Currently a consultant for a specialty nursery, he continues to pursue his horticultural interests as a home gardener, as an amateur hybridizer of Hippeastrum (amaryllis), and as an award-winning horticultural exhibitor. He lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey.