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Debra Prinzing is a Seattle-based writer who can credit her happy existence writing about gardens and home design to great preparation: a degree in textiles and design and a long career in journalism.
She is the author of The Abundant Garden, created with photographer Barbara J. Denk (Cool Springs Press, 2005). With more than 200 color photographs and intimate interviews with talented gardeners, the book explores the hallmarks of designing a garden of abundance, showcasing nine spectacular landscapes on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Debra is editor of the 9th edition of the Northwest Gardeners’ Resource Directory (2002, Sasquatch Books). She wrote the Pacific Northwest Garden Survival Guide (Fulcrum Books) in 2004. Cool Springs Press will also publish in early 2005 the Washington & Oregon Gardener’s Guide, which Debra co-authored with Mary Robson.
Her work will soon appear regularly in “Seattle@Home,” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s new home and garden section that debuts in early May 2005.
Debra scouts, writes about and styles gardens, interiors and floral design projects. She is a contributor-at-large for Romantic Homes and covers interior design/retail trends as contributing editor for the trade publication Home Décor Buyer. She is also the Pacific
Northwest regional columnist for Gardening How-To magazine.
Debra’s work has also appeared in Fine Gardening, Women’s Day, Better Homes & Gardens (Garden Rooms, Garden Shed and Country Gardens), Victorian Homes, Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, Seattle Magazine, NW Home + Garden, Northwest Garden News and Sunset magazines. Debra served as a senior writer for Sunset Books’ Gardening in the Northwest (2003).
She has lectured on gardening topics for the Northwest Flower & Garden Show (Seattle), San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, Southeastern Flower Show (Atlanta) and Chicago Flower Show. She has been a featured speaker at Bainbridge in Bloom, the Center for Urban Horticulture, Sorticulture, the VanDusen Flower & Garden Show (Vancouver, B.C.), Victoria Flower& Garden Show (Victoria, B.C.), Northwest Bookfest, Center for Urban Horticulture, Home & Garden Shows in Portland and Tacoma, Master Gardeners, garden clubs and specialty nurseries.
Debra has also appeared as a guest designer on HGTV’s “Outer Spaces” with Susie Coelho. She is a frequent guest of radio and television gardening programs in the Northwest. A Master Gardener, Debra has studied landscape horticulture and design at South Seattle Community College. Debra is also a regional director of Garden Writers Association.
Her avid “helpers” in her Seward Park garden efforts are sons Benjamin (12) and Alexander (8), who love to learn botanical names for plants. Their current favorite is “Kniphofia.” Her husband, Bruce Brooks, pushes a mean lawnmower and can’t quite figure out how this all happened.
Here is her favorite quote: “…surely, if you are privileged to own a plot of earth, it is your duty, both to God and man, to make it beautiful.” -- Beverley Nichols, 20th century English writer.
Author of The Abundant Garden (Cool Springs Press, March 2005)
Washington & Oregon Gardener's Guide with co-author Mary Robson (Cool Springs Press)
PNW Garden Survival Guide (Fulcrum Publishing)
Editor, Northwest Gardener's Resource Directory 9th ed. (Sasquatch Books)
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