User:Ancient Gardener

"Ancient Gardener" is the Wikinym of Rand B. Lee, horticulturist, writer, and editor. Rand's gardening articles have appeared in numerous publications in the United States from the 1970s to the present (2010), including The Mother Earth News, Organic Gardening, Horticulture, The Herb Companion, The Herb Quarterly, Birds & Blooms, and American Gardener. His garden writing also appears on the commercial website of Payne's Nurseries & Greenhouses, Inc. in Santa Fe, New Mexico (www.paynes.com), where he is employed part-time in the marketing department. He is the author of one gardening book, Pleasures of the Cottage Garden (Friedman/Fairfax, 1998). Rand is also the author of several dozen science fiction and fantasy short stories published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Amazing, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. His father, Manfred B. Lee (né Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky, 1905-1971) was co-author of the "Ellery Queen" detective mystery series. Further information on Rand's work may be found at his website, www.randblee.com.