Karen Bussolini

Karen Bussolini has been a gardener for as long as she can remember. She originally trained as a painter and had a career as an architectural photographer before specializing in garden photography, writing, and lecturing.

An active member of the Garden Writers Association, Karen has long been involved in organic, environmentally conscious gardening and has an abiding interest in herbs. She was the sole photographer for five books including Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden, which she co-wrote with Jo Ann Gardner.

Karen's writing and photography appear frequently in Garden Design, House Beautiful, Better Homes and Gardens, The American Gardener, and Connecticut Home and Garden, and she is best known for writing about personal garden experiences.

She has lectured at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show, the New England Spring Flower Show, the Maymont Flower Show, and to other groups throughout the United States, and she won Garden Writers Association's photography awards in 2001, 2004, and 2007.

When photographing, she sees the world through the eyes of a gardener and painter. Although she travels far and wide, her roots are sunk deeply into the soil of a deer-infested mountainside in South Kent, Connecticut, where she gardens and lives with her family.

Upcoming events for Karen Bussolini

  • April 21: Karen Bussolini at the Whatcom Horticultural Society

    Karen will give a talk on "Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden." (time: 7:30 p.m.; location: Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect St., Bellingham, Washington; contact: info@whatcomhortsociety.org; cost: $7 for members, $12 general admission; event Web site)

  • October 13: Karen Bussolini with the Northwest Horticultural Society

    Karen Bussolini will be speaking on the topic of her book, Designing with Elegant Silvers. (location: Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle, Washington; contact: Karin Kravitz, 206-780-8172, info@nwhort.org)

  • October 13: Northwest Horticultural Society lecture series

    Karen will give a talk on "Designing with Elegant Silvers." (location: Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st St., Seattle, Washington; contact: uwbg@u.washington.edu; cost: Free with membership; event Web site)

Books by Karen Bussolini