Colleen Plimpton, Author of 'Mentors in the Garden of Life' Book Talk and Signing

Popular garden columnist, lecturer and coach Colleen Plimpton has written a unique gardening memoir filled with funny, sad, touching and memorable stories of her years of digging in the dirt, the many people who nurtured her interest from childhood, and the unexpected life lessons she learned from morning glories, lilacs, potatoes, and even dandelions. Each chapter concludes with a detailed profile of the plant or woodland creature around which the story revolved. She will read from her memoir and sign and sell copies.
Always a gardener and a scribbler, Colleen Plimpton segued from her first career (clinical social worker) to professional gardening and writing. She took classes in gardening at the New York Botanical Garden and in writing from author Linda Chiara. She became a garden coach and lecturer at about the same time her writing began to sell. She is presently the author of an on-line blog and a weekly gardening column for the Danbury (CT) News-Times, a Hearst Media Group newspaper.
Plimpton's first solo book, Mentors in the Garden of Life, is a compilation of gardening and life stories from her almost 60 years of tilling the soil.

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