Writer and author Felicia Feaster is a former HGTV website editor, where she started 11 years ago as the editor-in-chief of a new gardening website called HGTV Gardens. That experience, combined with her own avid gardening, led her to where she is today: the author of The Gothic Garden: The Mystery, Beauty, and Lore of Dark Gardening , which debuted in November. Here, Feaster, a longtime Atlanta magazine contributor, explains what the concept is and how she wrote the book.

How did you come up with the idea for the book?

The concept of a Gothic garden, which kept popping up on TikTok and Instagram, immediately sparked my interest. I started writing pieces about what types of plants people could use in their Goth garden. Serendipitously, the publisher, Simon & Schuster, saw those a

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