Immersed in her autumn dahlia harvest, horticulturist Vanessa Kuemmerle said she vows to never retire from her lifelong mission of "promoting art and all things to do with plants, gardening, flowers and connecting people to beauty and the natural world."
Her devotion has led her from working at Google Campus in California to Maine where she owns horticulture businesses and most recently to southeastern Idaho where she grows flowers for destination wedding planners in resort towns of Sun Valley and Jackson.
"My whole life has been devoted to plants and will be until I take my last breath. They have been my friends, and I serve them and they serve me. The Dahlias in autumn are epic and blooming up a storm. We're juggling the harvest with preparing beds for fall planting—larkspur and other cool annuals, perennials, tulip bulbs, and Ranunculus corms."
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