Ruah Donnelly is a lawyer, garden writer, and well-known lecturer on the pleasures of plant-hunting. She is the author of The Adventurous Gardener: Where to Buy the Best Plants in New England, winner of a 2001 Quill & Trowel Book Award from the Garden Writers’ Association of America.

Her latest book, The Adventurous Gardener: Where to Buy the Best Plants in New York and New Jersey, explores the horticultural riches of the Empire and Garden states.

Donnelly is a Trustee of the New England Wildflower Society and former Vice President and Trustee of Tower Hill Botanic Garden. In 2003, she received a Silver Medal of Honor from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society recognizing her achievements in horticulture.

Donnelly lives in western Massachusetts and is a frequent visitor to New York and New Jersey.

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