Flora Grubb

2009 | Best Gardener

A lot of people don't know that Flora Grubb, of Flora Grubb Gardens, is a real person. And that's her birth name. After opening a 28,000-square-foot solar-powered nursery in the Bayview District in2007, she has spent the last year delving into her love of gorgeous gardens as art. She recently completed a vertical garden made entirely of Tillandsia, a bromeliad capable of growing without soil, for theNapa Valley eco-art hotel Bardessono. "I think they look like fireworks -- or a mass... More »