Proposed by: Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club, Zone VII

Andrea Wulf explores the heritage of horticulture with a style that blends scholarly narrative and artful storytelling. She is the author of five acclaimed books: The Invention of Nature, Chasing Venus, Founding Gardeners, The Brother Gardeners, and This Other Eden. Trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art in London, Andrea investigates the history of gardening, and the relevance of key figures and their discoveries to twenty-first century life. Her non-fiction books read like adventure novels, featuring legendary figures John Bartram, Joseph Banks, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Edward Halley, Captain Cook, and Alexander von Humboldt as the real-life heroes. Andrea’s books have won numerous awards, including The Royal Society Science Book Prize 2016, the Ness Award from the Royal Geographical Society, the Bayerische Buchpreis, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Invention of Nature was selected as one of the “The 10 Best Books of 2015” by The New York Times Book Review.