My name is Degen Pener and I created Seedhead because I love plants. I'm entranced by their variety and complexity, their deep spirit and evolutionary intelligence, their beauty and harmony, and the interconnectness we have with their lives. I also created Seedhead because I couldn't find a source like it on the web.

Seedhead is a news site that blends information from around the world about what's happening with plants and plant people. It covers landscape design, botanic gardens and nature reserves to visit, new plants, new books, endangered plants, ecological restoration, horticultural know-how, nurseries and more. The goal of Seedhead is to provide up-to-the-minute reports on the full breadth and depth of the world of plants.

In many ways, all gardening is local--I'm based in Culver City, CA--but in this increasingly interconnected world, gardening is also global. Invasive plants are a world-wide issue, plant breeders are rolling out new varieties across country borders, and global warming and other ecological changes affect us all.

In addition to Seedhead, which I started in spring of 2006, I am a contributing writer for Santa Barbara Magazine. From 2004 to early 2005, I worked as the plant buyer at Seaside Gardens, a wonderful nursery with extensive display gardens in Carpinteria, CA, and worked as a garden designer from 2004 to 2006.

I have contributed articles on gardens and horticulture to such publications as The New York Times Magazine, C Magazine and Virtuoso Life, and have written for InStyle, Details, Out, Entertainment Weekly, O at Home, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Wallpaper and Interior Design magazine.



I reserve all rights to the site's content unless otherwise noted.