MEREDITH HILDERBRAND lives and gardens on a 50-acre farm near Portland, Oregon. She traces her horticultural roots back to her paternal grandmother who graduated in 1913 from the University of Southern California with a degree in botany. Meredith is a Master Gardener through Oregon State University and a perennial member of the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon. Transplanted from the Southwest, Meredith plans to remain in the Pacific Northwest—gardener’s nirvana—until she’s pushing up Bellis perennis.