In The Garden
BIOS
• Garden Designer • Garden Coach •
A soulful horticulture and nature geek, Charlotte Kidd is a professional gardener, garden coach, garden designer and writer in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Her latest writing specialities include researching, writing and talking about Weaving in the Natives (Northeastern US plants), Powassan disease and the black-legged deer tick, and poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans.)
Bees and open-pollinated sunflowers. Milkweeds and Monarch butterflies. Goldfinches and cupflower (Silphium).
She continues membership in the Society of Environmental Journalists since 1987 as a stringer covering environmental issues in Montgomery County for the Philadelphia Inquirer's Neighbors section.
Northeastern Editor for the Garden Writers Association, 2001-2004.
Charlotte studied horticulture and garden design at Temple University Ambler's Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture and at Longwood Gardens' Horticulture Certificate Program. She's presented horticultural programs for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the Philadelphia International Flower Show and Longwood Gardens.
Earned a Masters in Education, Counseling, Glassboro State College (now Rowen University), New Jersey. Bachelors of Science or Education, East Stroudsburg State College
Her background includes newspaper reporting; medical editing; co-founding The Domestic Violence Crisis Center in Monroe County, PA; administrating the Monroe County Judicare Legal Aid Society; substitute teaching for PA's Intermediate Unit 20; and being a rather poor waitress in the Poconos. Click here for her resume.
• Garden Assistant •
• Technology Assistant •
Iz Zehender, (they/them/theirs), is a student at Springfield Township High School (STHS) and is In The Garden's technology assistant. When school is out of session, you can usually find them playing video games with their friends, building legos, or biking around the neighborhood and nearby trails. In school, they play in their school's Pep Band, Symphonic Band, and Jazz Band. They also work in the sound department in STHS's Stage Crew for the plays and musicals.
They were awarded with the Tech Hall of Fame award for the Junior Thespian Troupe #88027 at the Pennsylvania Thespian Festival for the 2024-2025 school year. That same year, they were also awarded Director's Choice Award for their contributions to the Stage Crew. In addition to that, they were also a Stage Crew Officer for Junior Thespian Troupe #88027. In this upcoming school year they will be the Social Media Manager for STHS's Set Design
They previously have worked with their aunt, garden designer Lisa Fernandez, on adding fun designs out of plants on moss sculptures of animals and adding small fairy gardens in the Winter Garden at Dilworth Park in Center City, Philadelphia.