Expertise
- Horticulture
- Home Gardening
- Vegetable Gardening
- Ornamental Horticulture
- native plants
- Landscape Architecture
- Garden Design
- planting plans
- Integrated Pest Management
Education
- Bachelors of Landscape Architecture
Emily Clark Waterson (Porter) is a horticulture consultant at HGIC where she helps answer gardening questions from Maryland residents. She also manages the Maryland Grows blog and HGIC's social media accounts: @umdhgic on Instagram and Home and Garden Information Center on Facebook - follow us!
She graduated from Environmental Science and Forestry College in New York (SUNY ESF) with a degree in Landscape Architecture in 2008. She is also a Maryland Certified Professional Horticulturist and Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional with an additional certification in riparian buffer installation and maintenance and meadow restoration.
Her studies in school focused on historic landscape preservation and time abroad in Kyoto, Japan, researching and understanding design details of tea gardens. More recently, her landscape design experience in Maryland focuses on home gardens, and she has a background in design-build, eco-friendly design, and private consultation. She has a passion for native plants, their ornamental uses, and environmentally friendly gardening techniques (IPM).
Emily’s personal interests include all aspects of gardening as well as growing her own small fruits, vegetables, and herbs, gardening and teaching children about nature, volunteering at her children’s school and for Stream Link Education in Frederick County, Maryland. In her free time she enjoys hiking, canoeing, and camping, trying new foods, and continuing to explore new environments!
