The bug march continues. Here's the plan for New York and Connecticut–would love to see you East Coast types while I'm there!  Monday, May 23, 2011 6 PM Horticultural Society of New York New York City, NY Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:30 PM Clearfield Public Library Williamsville, NY  (This is the Buffalo area–Elizabeth, Michele and I will actually get to hang out together and drink some of whatever wonderful thing...

Hey y'all–I'm heading to LA this week.  Get your wicked bugs on at one of these events–I'd love to see you there. Tuesday, May 10, 2011 7 pm Vroman's Bookstore Pasadena, CA Friday, May 13, 2011 10:30 AM Laguna Beach Garden Club Laguna Beach,...

When The Earth Moved came out, I traveled with a little plastic container holding a few live worms in dirt.  When Flower Confidential came out, I picked up fresh cut flowers and took them into bookstores and TV studios.  And for Wicked Plants, I carried around a box of poison seeds and sometimes picked up an actual wicked plant or two for show-and-tell.  You need props on a book tour.  You especially need them for TV...

The Wicked Bugs book tour starts next week.  I have yet to actually see a copy of the finished book–they have just been printed, I'm told–so I might get a copy in my hands before I leave for the tour, or I might meet up with it on the road.  Regardless, I'd really like to meet up with you on the road. A book tour is a perilous thing–because the book is so new, you never really know if anyone will want to...

And it's time for another mad dash through questionable weather!  (Last week's run to San Francisco for the garden show involved all the roads in and out of Humboldt County getting shut down due to 3 inches of snow.  I know, I know, we Californians are such wimps.) Anyway, off I go to Rochester, NY, where I will be speaking on Flower Confidential at Nazareth College on Thursday.  I also get to spend 3 hours that day...

I'm heading to Portland this weekend–are you going to be there?  The Portland Yard, Garden, and Patio Show has a big lineup of speakers this year.  I'll be talking about Wicked Plants on Friday at 2:00, and on Saturday at 11, I'll give a talk called Global Gardens, which is really kind of a "greatest hits" talk about how my horticultural travels have influenced my own garden.  Hope to see you...