Authors

Keeyla Meadows

Keeyla Meadows holds a bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts and a master’s degree in sculpture from the University of California at Berkeley, and has completed post-graduate studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art. For more than 30 years she has run a full-service landscaping company, Keeyla Meadows Gardens and Art, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she also has a gallery that shows her sculpture, paintings, furniture and planters for the garden. Her garden has appeared on television programmes such as “Good Morning America” and “Grow It!”, and has been featured in magazines including Sunset, Metropolitan Home, Fine Gardening and Horticulture. She teaches classes and lectures on garden topics at her home and at local nurseries and garden events. She has been applauded for her pioneering work in making gardens into large-scale works of art and has published numerous articles about colour and the garden in magazines and newspapers. Her photographs have been published in many garden magazines, including Sunset and Fine Gardening. Keeyla’s previous book is Making Gardens Works of Art (Sasquatch Books 2002).