In Living Color: The Fundamentals of Color for the Modern Gardener

Daniel Mount hails from a long line of wandering gardeners, nurserymen and farmers. He received his first shovel for his second birthday and began his gardening career in the sand box later that afternoon. Spending most of his youthful summers in a vegetable patch, on a farm, in parks, or in the woods, the curiosity of a scientist and the soul of a poet were awakened in him.
Daniel went on to study fine arts and botany at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, from which he received a BS in Botany in 1986. He wrote the treatment for the Araceae, the aroid family, for the Flora of Paraguay and Flora of Hawaii projects during his senior internship at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where he was employed after graduation. He started his garden design business in St. Louis while working as a herbarium assistant and grower at Missouri Botanical Garden.

Drawn to the legendary gardening climate of the Pacific Northwest, Daniel left St. Louis for Seattle, Washington. Since that time he has created, maintained and consulted on gardens primarily in the Puget Sound Basin. The skills he acquired working in the passionate gardening environment of Pacific Northwest opened many doors. He was invited to Cologne, Germany, where he worked on urban roof-top and courtyard gardens as well as rural estates. He was next called to Orto dei Semplici Elbano on the Island of Elba, Italy where he collected and designed with the unique flora of this island. He maintains an ancillary connection to this garden to this day. Closer to home he has consulted on projects in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Montana.

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