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    • PUBLISHED WORKS
      • MONTH-BY-MONTH GARDENING
      • FRUIT & VEG GARDENING
      • NOT-SO-HOT TOMATOES
      • THE REMOVABLE FEAST
      • MANHUNT IN PERE LACHAISE
    • NEW PROJECTS
      • INTO THE FOG
      • FAVORITE SON: A NOVEL
      • THE MEMORY GARDEN
    • CLAIRE'S SHARES
    • ABOUT/CONTACT

Claire Splan

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  • HOME
  • PUBLISHED WORKS
    • MONTH-BY-MONTH GARDENING
    • FRUIT & VEG GARDENING
    • NOT-SO-HOT TOMATOES
    • THE REMOVABLE FEAST
    • MANHUNT IN PERE LACHAISE
  • NEW PROJECTS
    • INTO THE FOG
    • FAVORITE SON: A NOVEL
    • THE MEMORY GARDEN
  • CLAIRE'S SHARES
  • ABOUT/CONTACT

ABOUT CLAIRE

Claire Splan, an award-winning writer and editor, is the author of California Month-by-Month Gardening, which received a Silver Award of Achievement in writing from the Garden Writers Association, and California Fruit and Vegetable Gardening, which has sold over 13,000 copies and is now in a second edition. Claire is the Associate Editor of The American Gardener, the magazine of the American Horticultural Society.


Claire has written about designing memorial gardens in The Designer, the magazine of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (Spring 2020, “Making Memorial Gardens Memorable”). Her articles on other gardening topics have appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune, Age of Awareness, The Startup, and Tenderly. Claire writes about gardening, writing and other topics on her Substack newsletter, Lost in the Weeds.


Claire began her garden writing career by blogging about her growing interest in gardening and environmental issues at her garden blog “An Alameda Garden” (2006–2016). She has written for several garden-related websites and done presentations at the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, the UC Botanical Garden, the Los Angeles County Arboretum, the Southern California Spring Garden Show, and numerous garden clubs and other venues. She has also been interviewed on radio shows such as “GardenLife,” “Bob Tanem in the Garden,” and “Gardening Today.”

   

Claire lives and gardens in Alameda, an island in San Francisco Bay.

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