MEREDITH MAY spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is coauthor of I, Who Did Not Die and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She lives in San Francisco, where she keeps several hives in a community garden.
Garden communicator at her award-winning website, The Garden Diaries, Claire is a landscape/floral designer, garden travel leader, and has worked at the White House as a floral designer many times.
She is a frequent presenter at Flower Shows, Botanic Gardens, and Master Gardeners. Claire practices what she preaches on her own Maryland two-acre property which includes a buzzing meadow, mixed hedgerow, vegetable garden, planting borders, and honey-producing apiary.