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Sara Begg Bio
 Name: Sara Begg
Position: Executive Editor
How long have you worked at Horticulture? Five years
Where do you garden? My garden is in Cambridge, MA in USDA Zone 6b. My garden is a small city garden sitting on a primarily north, brickwall-facing wall. There is a long corridor of brick path (too much for my liking) that opens up in the back to a row of 15-foot-tall arborvitae and a 6-foot-deep U-shaped bed. In the front of the house is a long, fat, ugly yew hedge, in front of which is a 4-foot-wide garden border (from super shade to full sun) and a picket fence on the outside.
What is your favorite plant? My current favorite plant is Rabdosia longituba (for fall) and I can never have enough tulips.
What is your latest plant failure? Killing 2 out of 3 of my beloved myrtle topiaries.
What are you currently reading? My Garden in Spring by E.A. Bowles
What is your favorite gardening reference? Hot Plants for Cool Climates by Dennis Schrader and Susan Roth as well as my volumes of The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening by T.H. Everett
What is your current gardening project? Trying to figure out what to plant in place of the three ugly plants in my back garden (a golden spiraea, a shaggy holly, and a little peach tree that gets no light). There is a fair amount of shade, not a ton of space, I'm thinking Corylopsis pauciflora, Fothergilla minor, and Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis.
What is your fantasy plant vacation? A guided botanizing trip to the foothills of Iran during peak bulb season
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