About Doug
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Well, what can I tell you?
I ran my own specialist plant nursery (about 1800 varieties of perennials, 600 varieties of annuals) for over 20 years. Learned a litle bit about plants in the process.
Have written 8 “dead-tree” books including a major award winning one called “Garden Wisdom” and a “Guide to Canadian Vegetable Gardening” that went to #1 on Amazon.ca and #2 on Amazon.com Learned a very little bit about writing.
Now run a growing gardening network on the Net with blogs, websites, ebooks, seminars and as much fun as possible.
Write full time from an island out in Lake Ontario (USDA zone 4) and sail part time in an old mahogany Folkboat. Drive an old sports car as much time as possible. Living my dream of living on the water, writing full time and having enough time to garden and play with “guy toys”. What else can I say? 
Manage to do a little gardening and the lawn keeps getting smaller and smaller. My kids (I’m insanely proud of all 4 of them) have bets about how long the front lawn will survive before I’ve “flowered” it all and removed all the grass.
Simply living my life with as much gusto and sense of wonder as I possibly can.
My other websites:
Landscaping Ideas for Gardening because I’m landscaping my house and documenting and writing about it.
Gardening Tools Guide I only use great tools and these are my choices.
Alzheimers Information because it runs in my family and I’m researching it.
Perennial Flowers - because I’ve had a love affair with them for far too many years.
Water Gardens – what’s not to love about water? I sail on it and garden with it.
Simple Gifts Farm this is my first website – the old nursery site now rebuilt – but I love that name
Beginner-Gardening - well, because I seem to be able to answer beginner questions and I get a lot of them over there.
Flower Bulbs - who doesn’t like seeing bulbs pop up in the spring after a long winter? And why not grow them year round?
Doug Green’s Garden I just couldn’t resist having a website about gardening stuff named after me.