Learn the secrets to creating a breathtaking indoor garden paradise that impresses visitors and makes your home a healthier place to be from the author of Indoor Gardening the Organic Way: How to Create a Natural and Sustaining Environment for Your Houseplants. The speech covers everything from feeding houseplants a gourmet organic feast, to eco-friendly ways to handle pests and diseases and the importance of healthy soil. Book signing and houseplant sale following the presentation.

Julie Bawden-Davis is a bestselling garden writer and UCCE Master Gardener. Widely published, she has written more than 2,000 articles and 10 books, including Indoor Gardening the Organic Way: How to Create a Natural and Sustaining Environment for Your Houseplants, Houseplants and Indoor Gardening: Decorating Your Home with Houseplants and Fairy Gardening: Creating Your Own Magical Miniature Garden. Her work has appeared in many publications, including Parade.com, where she has a weekly gardening column, The American Gardener, Better Homes and Gardens, Organic Gardening, Family Circle, Parents and the Los Angeles Times. She is also founder and publisher of HealthyHouseplants.com, and a member of the Garden Writers Association (GWA) and the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).