Fresh Start Herbs
About Susan Betz
Susan Betz Susan Betz is an author, garden communicator, lecturer, and conservationist specializing in herbs and native plants. She has been actively growing and using herbs to educate the public about gardening and the natural world for over 35 years.
Susan's Books
Susan is the author of two well-received books, Neighboring with Nature: Native Herbs for Purpose and Pleasure and Herbal Houseplants: Grow beautiful herbs - indoors! For flavor, fragrance, and fun.
Susan Speaks
Looking for an entertaining, knowledgable, and unique speaker? Susan presents a variety of talks and can customize talks for any audience. She’s happy to speak virtually or travel. Click the button to read more!
“Now, in the ninth month, the great clan of Composite comes into glory , in a burst of gold & purple. Of all the families, it is not only the largest and the newest point of evolution, but at the very peak and summit of the plant kingdom. … so just as the year opens with the most primitive and ancient families, like catkin-bearing trees, it ends with a triumph of the newest and most complex flower families”. D. C. Peattie
Planting for Purpose and Pleasure
Petticoats and Fur: Hepatica Dressed for Spring
It has been a cold spring here in southwest Michigan. I found some determined Hepatica plants pushing their way up through dead leaves and lingering snow.The first flower of spring! Finally!
Econicity-Mother Nature's Little Lessons in Cooperation
The original American herb gardens were the pre-settlement native plant communities naturally existing in the fields, woods, meadows and wetlands across North America.