Amanda Tomsen, Owner at Kiss My Aster
Amanda Thomsen has been writing her column, Kiss My Aster, for Green Profit magazine for nearly 10 years. She's also an author, speaker and shop owner in the lively village of Lemont, Illinois. You can learn more at kissmyaster.com.
Kiss My Aster - Practical, fun, imperfect gardens for everyone! Professional horticulturist, landscape designer, author of Kiss My Aster & Backyard Adventure and Mother of Gardening Memes .
Amanda Thomsen is a horticulturist, garden designer, keynote speaker, freelance writer, backyard consultant, and author living in suburban Chicago. Amanda wants to help the world live more sustainably (but without a load of effort and twice the fun!). Amanda has been working in gardens, garden centers and landscaping for the last 20 years. Her focus is bringing rule-breaking fun, a little kitsch and a lot of humor into an industry that is often thought of as stodgy and full of rules. Amanda speaks and gives classes at all-sized events throughout the United States.
Amanda Thomsen is the author of two books: Kiss My Aster: A Graphic Guide to Creating a Terrific Yard Totally Tailored to You (Storey 2012) and Backyard Adventure: Get Messy, Get Wet, Build Cool Things, and Have Tons of Fun (Storey 2019). She is half of The Garden Girls podcast and produces a one-woman gardening show, Mud Life Crisis. She has a monthly column in the garden center industry magazine, Green Profit. Amanda was chosen to attend the Better Homes and Gardens Stylemaker event in NYC in 2017 & 2018.
