Editor & Staff

Editor

Richard G Turner Jr

Garden designer, educator, writer, photographer, and tour leader, Richard G Turner Jr studied architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Michigan, before escaping to California in order to garden year-round. He has designed private and public gardens in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, and California.

Turner taught in UC Berkeley's Department of Landscape Architecture for six years and lectures throughout the Bay Area on garden design and on the wildflowers of South Africa and Australia. He has served as director of the San Francisco Landscape Garden Show and as director of education for the Strybing Arboretum Society. Most recently he was the executive director for The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, CA, the first private garden to be sponsored by The Garden Conservancy.

Since 1997, Turner has been editor of Pacific Horticulture, one of the country's top garden magazines. He has traveled extensively to study gardens, plants, and wildlife in North America, Europe, Chile, South Africa, and Australia. He edited the Trees of Golden Gate Park and San Francisco, and was the consultant editor for The Nature Company Guide to Natural Gardening, American editor for Botanica and The Ultimate Plant and Garden Book; and a contributing editor to the Sunset Western Landscaping Book.

Turner's small, chemical-free San Francisco garden provides habitat for birds, bees, butterflies, snakes, salamanders, and an occasional skunk.

Staff

Administrative Director

Pete Cattrell