Mike Lascelle is a nursery manager and certified arborist, with a thirty-five-year horticultural background that includes estate gardening, landscape construction and design. He has authored several books on plant selection and garden design, as well as articles for Gardens West, Canadian Gardening, Coastal Grower and GardenWise, and currently writes a biweekly garden column for the Maple Ridge News. He lives in Maple Ridge, BC.