Lee Schneller Fine Gardens
Japanese-Inspired Gardens
Continuously Blooming Perennial Gardens
Lee Schneller Fine Gardens was founded in 1995 and specializes in designing and building
Japanese-inspired, naturalistic and continuously blooming gardens.  We also do hourly
consultations, talks, slide shows and workshops.  Lee's book,
The Ever-Blooming Flower
Garden: A Blueprint for Continuous Color
, was released by Storey Publishing in March 2009
and is a bestseller in independent bookstores and on Amazon.com.  See the Calendar
section for national book tour dates, workshops and Japanese garden talks.

Lee Schneller Sligh went to Japan for the first time in 1974 as an exchange student and lived
there for four years in all.  She earned degrees in Asian History and Chinese Language and
Literature, and spent ten years as a Japanese technical translator before starting her
gardening business.  She is a Master Gardener volunteer and has designed 200 gardens in
Maine.