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Ernie Wasson with Salvia confertiflora, 2005

Ernie George Wasson (born 10 January 1950 in Berkeley, California, United States) is an American gardener, horticulturist and author.

Wasson studied from 1968 to 1974 at Humboldt State University, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Science in Geography in 1974.

From 1978 to 1981, Wasson was a partner in the horticultural school of Humboldt County in California, and from 1979 to 1981, he was a member of the board in the College of Redwoods; he later was a teacher in the Green Animals Topiary Gardens in Rhode Island. From 1982 to 1984, he graduated from the Longwood Graduate Program in Ornamental Horticulture and Public Garden Management in the University of Delaware as a Master of Science. Since 1998, he has been the leader of a teaching garden at Cabrillo College in Aptos.^[1][2]

Wasson worked for the Berkeley Horticultural Nursery. He was a factual adviser for the English language original of the 2003 botany publication Botanica.^[3]

Bibliography

• Trees & shrubs: illustrated A-Z of over 8500 plants. Global Book Pub., Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia 2001, ISBN 978-1-74048-007-9 (928 pages, colour, includes CD-ROM)
• Republication with different title: The complete encyclopedia of trees and shrubs. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, California 2003, ISBN 978-1-59223-055-6 (816 pages, colour)
• Home horticulture requests ASIN B000737QSY

• Richard G. Turner Jr., Ernie Wasson (Chief Editors): Botanica, The Illustrated A-Z of over 10,000 Garden Plants and How to Cultivate Them, Random House Australia, 1997^[4][5]
  • Botanica: Das ABC der Pflanzen. 10.000 Arten in Text und Bild, Köln 2003, Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN=3-8331-1600-5 (German edition)
  • Botanica : Encyclopédie de botanique et d'horticulture Plus de 10.000 plantes du monde entier, Editions Mengès (nouveau tirage 2006), ISBN : 2856204643^[6] (French edition)

References

External links

• Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): no 2004058647