Ann was born and raised in Portland, OR and its suburb Milwaukie. She gardens, writes, and collects seeds at the base of an extinct volcano—Mount Tabor.
Her writing has appeared in Pith + Vigor and the HPSO Quarterly Magazine. She has spoken at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show as well as the Philadelphia Flower show and done many live presentations and webinars for horticultural societies and gardening groups. She’s been interviewed for many podcasts, the Wonderground Press, as well as the Seattle Times. In 2025 she was included in the book The Spirited Garden: Creative Private Retreats. New York: Rizzoli, 2025.
She worked part-time at Cistus Nursery as a Seed Propagator for nearly 7 years, as a part-time Production Manager and Propagator at Secret Garden Growers for nearly 7 years, and is now a full-time Propagation Assistant and Grower at Little Prince of Oregon where she works with ferns, begonias, and special propagation projects.
Before her nursery work started, Ann successfully grew and sold thousands of seeds on Etsy for nearly a decade before closing her shop down once she was too busy working. Currently, she’s rekindling this love at Spiffy Seeds.
She earned a BA from PSU in 2001 with a double major in English literature and art history and she also has an Associate of Applied Science in Horticulture from Clackamas Community College.
Ann is also currently a General Director on the board at the Home Orchard Education Center and was the chapter President of the Mt Hood Gesneriad Society for several years.
About annlovesplants.com (formerly known as AmateurBotAnnist.com)
Garden blogs exist for many reasons so I thought I’d tell you about myself and why I’ve been blogging for so many years. Above all, I love to write and garden. Secondly, I’ve been able to use blogging to reach out since 2007 while living a rather solitary life due to chronic health problems. I’ve always hoped that sharing my experiences with hereditary angioedema, mast cell disorder, and rare allergies could help others. Lastly, I simply love plants and their people. Gardeners are often the kindest, most optimistic and gentlest people and the quality of gardening culture has immeasurably enriched my life. My hope is that by reading more of our gardening sites you too can find some pleasure and community here as well.
My blog exists as a web log—in its original sense. It is an ongoing diary (or memoir) documenting my gardening life, stories, comments, thoughts and opinions.
For inquiries contact Ann at: ann@annlovesplants.com
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