This is the website of Barbara W. Ellis. I am a passionate life-long gardener as well as a garden writer, editor, speaker, and gardening coach living in Chestertown, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. There's nothing I enjoy more than talking about plants and gardens—or writing about them. This site is intended to introduce both the professional work I do as well as my garden and related passions.

Professionally speaking, I am an award-winning garden writer as well as seasoned book and newsletter editor. I also am a gardening coach and speaker. For more on these endeavours, click on the links at left.

For more about my garden and other interests, click the "Notes from Hackberry Point" link. There, you'll find out what's going in my cottage-style garden, which features flower beds in sun and shade, a wildflower meadow, low-maintenance ground cover installations, plus houseplant collections, container gardens, and more. Along the way, you'll see snippets of other passions, including a current bird list for Hackberry Point, information on our "Green" renovated home, and "Dogs in the Garden," featuring the antics of my four rescue dogs.