Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Garden Designer, Garden Speaker &
Best-Selling Garden Author

Tracy has earned international acclaim as one of America’s most entertaining and knowledgeable garden writers and professional speakers. She has extensive experience in the United States, and abroad working for over 30 years in the industry, speaking for over 25 years and designing for over 20 years. Her experience includes stints at Longwood Gardens in the U.S., The Montreal Botanical Garden in Canada, the Kalmthout Arboretum in Belgium, and Knightshayes Court in England. She earned a B.S. and M.S. in Horticulture from The Ohio State University.

Her first book The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, has been referred to by many as “the bible for perennial maintenance”. Her second book The Well-Designed Mixed Garden, brings her trademark exuberance, expertise, and efficiency to bear on frequently daunting elements of garden design demystifying them with her direct approach. In third and newest book 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants, she delivers again, featuring a collection of 50 stunning plants includes some of the toughest plants that anyone can grow. For gardeners with hectic lives, these ornamental plants offer long-lasting bloom, architectural form and texture, and also are cold-hardy, drought-resistant, and virtually pest proof.