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Gardenista Founder

Michelle Slatalla

"I never saw a garden from which I did not learn something and seldom met a gardener who did not, in one way or another, help me.”

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10 Things to Know About Michelle

  1. Lives:
    Mill Valley, California
  2. Has Gardened:
    Northern California, Chicago (lilac country), and Brooklyn (fire escape).
  3. First Plant:
    African violet on my grandmother’s radiator.
  4. Reluctant Garden Assistants:
    Husband (Josh) and three daughters (Zoe, Ella, and Clementine).
  5. Favorite Gardening Book:
    Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White.
  6. Last Plant I Bought:
    Variegated daphne.
  7. Why I Got Such a Picky Plant:
    For the scent. Also, I like round, compact shrubs with shiny leaves.
  8. Favorite Cocktail to Drink Outdoors:
    Negroni (1 jigger gin to 1/2 jigger sweet vermouth and 1/2 jigger Campari; serve in martini glass with lemon twist).
  9. What My Husband Would Most Like to See In The Garden:
    A Royal Palm tree.
  10. What My Husband Will Be Seeing in the Garden:
    Lemon Tree (for Negronis).
Where Michelle Lives
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Welcome to Mill Valley. Meet my husband, Josh, and our assistants, Sticky and Larry. Photographer Matthew Williams shot these images for our book, Gardenista: The Definitive Guide to Stylish Outdoor Spaces.
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My neighbor, Richard, gave me a fragment of wrought iron that once belonged to the previous owner of my house. A local blacksmith used the metal as a template to make the railing.
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When it's hot, we sit out on the front porch, where we like to drink Negronis and keep an eye on the neighbors.
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