Julie Bawden-Davis is a best-selling garden author, blogger, YouTuber and Master Gardener, who enjoys teaching aspiring gardeners how to turn any thumb deep green. Julie has enjoyed gardening indoors since childhood, when she met and fell in love with a coleus at the age of 7. She bought the plant at a drugstore with her allowance money, brought it home and the plant thrived. She then taught herself how to propagate plants, and by the age of 10 had filled every window in the family home with houseplants.

Widely published, Julie has penned several gardening books, including Indoor Gardening the Organic Way and Houseplants and Indoor Gardening. She has also written more than 5,000 articles for a wide variety of national and international publications, such as Organic Gardening, The Gardener, Better Homes and Gardens and Wildflower Magazine.

For many years, Julie was a garden columnist with the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and Parade.com. She is founder and publisher of HealthyHouseplants.com and the YouTube channel @HealthyHouseplants. Julie is also a prolific novelist who has penned two fiction series, many of which include beautiful gardens.

Julie gains inspiration from puttering, planting and pruning indoors and out in her Orange garden, certified in 1999 by the National Wildlife Federation as a Backyard Wildlife Habitat.