Nellie Neal

Nellie Neal is a garden writer and radio host who's known to many as "the Garden Mama." She learned to garden in her native north Louisiana and spent her childhood visiting relatives all over Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. After years in California and south Louisiana, Nellie made her home in central Mississippi and began her radio programs and website, ... She earned her gardening stripes through hands-on gardening in hot, humid, and sometimes buggy conditions. Today she gardens with...See more

Nellie Neal is a garden writer and radio host who's known to many as "the Garden Mama." She learned to garden in her native north Louisiana and spent her childhood visiting relatives all over Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. After years in California and south Louisiana, Nellie made her home in central Mississippi and began her radio programs and website, ... She earned her gardening stripes through hands-on gardening in hot, humid, and sometimes buggy conditions. Today she gardens with her husband, Dave Ingram, and visits their children in New Orleans. See less