Linda Vater, author of The Elegant and Edible Garden and The Garden Journal, is a garden designer and stylist who writes and produces garden content for TV, magazines, social media, and her own website. She has lived and gardened at her 1935 English Tudor home in Oklahoma City for the past 30 years. Her garden has been featured in numerous magazines, including Southern Living, Victoria, Garden Gate, Oklahoma, Mother Earth News, and others. Linda has hosted a weekly gardening segment on Oklahoma's News 4 for 14 years. She also runs her own online television channel, Linda Vater TV, and has partnered with brands such as HGTV, Park Seed, the Home Depot, and the Southern Living Plant Collection. Linda's line of gardening products, the Linda Vater Signature Collection, will debut on QVC in the spring of 2021.

"Linda's thoughtful, practical approach to garden design helps make it less daunting and more doable. Her own garden is pure magic, and this very personal account of its evolution is filled with inspiration, completely relatable experiences, and advice that every gardener can use, whether you garden in inches or acres."--Kristin Beane Sullivan, Editor, Garden Gate magazine

"Linda Vater does it again. The inspirational content and endless charm that we know and love her for translate perfectly onto the page. We get a peek into Linda's garden like we've never quite seen before, and a detailed explanation of how she did it all - and how we can do it, too. This book is full of candid stories, gorgeous inspiration, and thorough garden design advice. It is a must-have for anyone who loves pretty things."--Katie Dubow, President, Garden Media Group and QVC guest host

"I have followed Linda and her work on Instagram and YouTube for several years. Linda is a gifted gardener, and I'm amazed by her style and garden. Her book is a treasure."--Claus Dalby, Danish gardening celebrity and author of Containers in the Garden

"Though we have worked with Linda for years, her work and her gardens continue to energize and inspire us, just as we know she does for many gardeners. In this book, Linda again demonstrates that our garden dreams are within reach. We can have a garden or landscape uniquely our own, growing joy as rich and flavorful as the plants we coax from the soil."--- Corrina Murray, Southern Living(R) Plant Collection

"Perhaps most importantly, Vater reminds us that the joy is in our gardening journeys and in the multifaceted beauty of the gardens we create and share with others."--Andrea Siegel, Washington Gardener

"Are you looking for the perfect gardening book to inspire you to create the perfect kitchen garden? If so, we think you will loveThe Elegant Edible Garden."--Susan Bewley, Budget Earth

"The book is beguiling and engaging from the first moment, with beautiful photography and useful illustrations throughout."--The Oklahoma City Sentinel

"...as The Elegant and Edible Garden illustrates, with a bow to necessity, it is possible to create the garden of our dreams..."--Connecticut Horticultural Society