Kerry Michaels is a writer and photographer living in Freeport, Maine. She photographed A Gateless Garden: Quotes by Maine Women Writers , Growing the Northeast Garden , The Proven Winners Garden Book, Modern Pressure Canning , and The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables . Her photographs have appeared in Better Homes & Gardens , Down East , Gardenista , Remodelista , and Coastal Home , where she was also a contributing writer. Her writing clients have included PBS, Disney, Scholastic, Sesame Workshop, CBS News Productions, Hearst, and Country Living . Her photographs are included in private and museum collections. For eight years, she was the writer and photographer for an internationally popular container gardening website, and she co-produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary River of Steel . Liz Micheels (project stylist) is a first-generation American whose parents immigrated to the US from the Netherlands. Flowers and gardens are part of her Dutch culture and have always been central to her life.

After a career in social services -- teaching, working with at-risk youth and refugees, as well as reproductive healthcare counseling -- Liz started Artful Blooms, a floral business specializing in personalized and creative flower and plant design for inside and out. Additionally, she has worked as a stylist for photo shoots in advertising, food, and flowers.