Word: horticulturists
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...Back in the 1990s, when things were booming, the gardening movement was all about Martha Stewart - spending lots of money hiring people to make these beautiful, ornamental spaces," says Charlie Nardozzi, senior horticulturist at the National Gardening Association. Nowadays, "growing your own food can be a political statement that you have a personal connection with your food and where it's coming from, versus going to a grocery store and grabbing whatever is on the shelf...
...BLUMENFELD The late Gideon Blumenfeld, an Israeli horticulturist and scientist, is often referred to as the godfather of New Zealand's olive-oil industry. Lured to New Zealand by his Kiwi wife, Triska, he settled in the Wairau Valley after researching the climate and soil, and planted his first commercial crop in 1986. Today, the Blumenfeld brand is New Zealand's biggest olive-oil producer. Order its award-winning oils at blumenfeld.co.nz...
...costs anywhere from $1,200 to $2,500. That's a whole lot more than the $300 to $600 homeowners paid for the 2-in. to 3-in. varieties popular in the 1990s. "People don't want a stick out in the yard," says Melvin Garber, a horticulturist at the University of Georgia. "They want to buy a tree, put it in the ground and invite their friends over for dinner that night." And even if you're willing to pay, finding the kind of tree you want can be tough, with highly prized breeds in short supply. "People...
...garde actor, "but when I got there, it was all Oklahoma!" She became a photographer's assistant (to first husband Mitch Epstein), then an award-winning documentary filmmaker before turning feature-film director at 30. Today she's also a producer, a film professor at Columbia University and a horticulturist so fanatical that it's beginning to affect her day job. "They've rewritten the script for [author Nick Hornby's] Fever Pitch, and I love it," she says. "They've signed Drew Barrymore. But they want to do it next month, and I have to return to my garden...
...HOME JOEL RIFKIN SHARED WITH his sister and widowed mother on Long Island is a horticulturist's delight. Lush beds of lavender, lamb's ears, lilies, begonias, irises and poppies surround the house. The box hedges are perfectly manicured. A magnolia tree thrives. The plants are a living testament to Joel Rifkin's gifts as a gardener. "Joel could tell you exactly what's growing," says Frank Barton, who lives across the street from the landscaper. "He knew how long it'll grow and when it'll die." But Joel Rifkin cultivated life and death in other, more odious ways...