About Debra Teachout-Teashon
Debbie photographs and writes about gardening in the maritime Pacific Northwest. She is editor and web master of this e-zine, Rainy Side Gardeners and the newsletter, Gardening in the Rainy Zone. A long time professional photographer her images have won awards at art shows and exhibits with Professional Photographers of America. Her photographs appeared in newspapers and magazine over the years with recent ones in the Oregonian newspaper, Fine Gardening Magazine, as well as other web sites and plant catalogs. Debbie also writes a bimonthly article with accompanying photographs for the Pacific Northwest Homeowner Magazine on the Olympic Peninsula.
She is a Northwest native, born in Oregon and now lives in Washington State on the beautiful Kitsap Peninsula. She lived in Hawaii, another garden Mecca, for over seven years where she claims she left a small piece of her heart. Nevertheless, the rest of her heart loves her native home where gardening is a dream.
Debbie's blog: Muck About.
Memberships Past and Present
Garden Writers Association
International Clematis Society
North America Rock Garden Society
Northwest Perennial Alliance
Professional Photographers of America
Rhododendron Species Foundation
Washington Native Plant Society
WSU Master Gardeners
Published Work
The Oregonian
Fine Gardening magazine
Pacific Northwest Home Owner magazine
Quoted, Featured or Just Plain Seen in the Pages
Better Homes and Garden Special Interest Publication, 2001
Sunset Magazine, September 2003.
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