Cheryl Ann Meola Tropical Botanicals and Nature Stock Photography

          Cheryl Ann Meola Tropical Botanicals and Nature Stock Photography 

An avid horticulturist and gardener, Cheryl Ann Meola gained invaluable experience in the eighteen years she worked within the plant nursery industry. Her career began with Cornelius nursery in Houston, Texas where she took classes to become a Texas Certified Nursery Professional. Upon completion of the courses, she was promoted to bedding plant supervisor.

In 1989, she received her Associate in Arts degree in Landscape Architecture from Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC). During this time, she worked for five years at MDCC in their Landscape Technology Nursery, a teaching nursery.

While at the nursery, she photographed the plants, and her plant photography was later used as an instructional tool for Plant Identification students. The photo guide of native and tropical flora inspired the idea to write Southeast Style Gardening. While writing Southeast Style Gardening she became an estate gardener at Deeridge Farms, and was responsible for growing organic vegetables, herbs, tropical fruits, ornamentals, tropicals, and orchids. The ornamentals, tropicals, and orchids were utilized in the landscape, and the fresh edibles were enjoyed by the owners. She enjoyed all the praise!

Cheryl realized while writing Southeast Style Gardening that she could use the same writing format to author other gardening books. After her first book was finished, she began writing a book about Butterfly Gardening as she had already done extensive research into butterfly gardening to design a butterfly garden for a friend. Thus, Gardening for the Butterflies: Designing and Creating a Butterfly-Friendly Landscape was written. The book will allow the reader to plan and plant a butterfly garden. Basic butterfly gardening topics include: the life cycle of the butterfly, an introduction to butterfly gardening, planning and planting your garden, gardening tips and guidelines, and planning and planting butterfly container gardens, watering, and fertilizers to have a beautiful garden. To help in the design process the book includes a butterfly design plan and key to where the plants go, suggested plants for each zone 3-11, and a master list of nectar and larval food plants for zones 3-11 for the design key to help in the design process.

After Gardening for the Butterflies, Cheryl began writing about houseplants and the wonderful health and air purifying benefits houseplants give their owners. Thus, Grow Fresh Air was written. All books can be purchased on Amazon on the links provided in each section the book is mentioned. All Photography in her books is by Cheryl Ann Meola. All images Cheryl needed for the three books became an intensive data base, which got her to have another idea about using her images, Stock Photography.

Cheryl Ann Meola’s stock portfolio specializes in tropical botanicals and Nature photography. Each image has the current botanical, scientific, and common names. Cheryl just added new images to her stock photography portfolio. The new images are Cocos nucifera - Coconut Palm, Cyrtomium falcatum - Holly Fern, Magnolia grandiflora - Southern Magnolia, Platycodon grandiflorus - Balloon Flower, Coreopsis lanceolata - Lance-leaved Coreopsis. This is just an example of what has been uploaded this week. Check back weekly because images are being uploaded daily. You can search Cheryl’s portfolio by common or botanical name. The images are royalty-free images.

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