Lane Greer Ph.D.

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She may need help with compass directions, but Lane knows her way around the garden!

Lane lives in Portland, OR, along with its 200 Asian restaurants, three botanical gardens and the “smartest black Lab ever,” Bonnie. She was born in northern Louisiana (Cajuns call her a Yankee), and has lived in Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Mississippi. (In case you can’t tell, she’s not a big fan of climates where spring involves waiting for the snow to melt.) Her love of gardening began from the time she was knee-high to a grasshopper in her grandmother’s ½-acre vegetable garden. It was in that garden where Lane quickly learned the difference between picking weeds and picking vegetables. (Despite her longtime love with veggies, she still won’t eat eggplant.) She honed her sustainable agriculture skills while working for ATTRA-National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service, while simultaneously owning a cutflower farm and interning for a city-wide landscape administrator. Lane earned her Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, where she studied cutflowers. (And her knowledge and skills on the cutflower subject will soon make her the proud published author of her first garden-related book!) She taught at Mississippi State University before moving to Oregon, where she has discovered the triumphs and tribulations of container and raised bed gardening in summer, and underwater gardening in Portland’s soggy winters. Her garden-loving dog and her partner Mark (a rather intelligent member of the male species), like to take her on very long, uphill-both-ways hikes. She just moved into her new home and has decided that “anything is better than unpacking!”

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Lane loves her black lab Bonnie, reading classic novels and nonfiction, any (and all) movies and traveling – in that order. Her favorite color is purple.

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While she definitely knows her way around the garden, Lane has yet to find her way around Portland. “Most days I can’t tell east from west,” she says, “and living in Portland means you can’t use the sun to guide you.”

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