Bonni Criswell is a landscape designer, master gardener and passionate plant enthusiast. Although her formal education resulted in an art degree with an emphasis in ceramics, her burgeoning love of plants naturally led her into the realm of garden design. Gaining experience through a small gardening business and a natural proclivity for pruning, she earned her green thumbs by getting down and dirty. She has also worked in the nursery industry since 2008, where she delights at being privy to all that is relevant in the plant world. Bonni has called the Applegate home for the past eleven years, where she not only tends her two young boys, but also fervently collects Eryngiums, Zauschnerias, Phlomis and other such curiosities.