Tom Oder

Gardening Blog – Tom Oder

Tom Oder's Features

Garden stories & insights

Updates, help and inspiration for gardeners in Atlanta and the Southeast, plus reports on environmental news that impacts the natural world.

The high shade garden with a metal gazebo surrounded by lush plantings
View all archived Features

Get new Features in your inbox

Subscribe to Tom Oder's Features and receive updates on Southeast gardening, garden events and environmental writing.

Tom Oder

Tom is an investigative horticultural journalist and veteran editor who bridges the gap between academic science and regional dirt. Leveraging a distinguished career as a senior editor at a major metropolitan newspaper and an economic development journalist, he built TomOder.com to deliver high-integrity, data-backed reporting. Through his deep leadership roots within regional and national horticultural societies, Tom provides gardeners with direct access to elite university extension insights, vetted ecoregion data, and independent grower networks.

Tom Oder

Get in Touch

Hours (ET; GMT -4)

Mon – Fri: 9am – 5pm

Sat: By Appointment

© 2026 Tom Oder's Gardening Website. All Rights Reserved.

Privacy PolicyTerms of Use

With appreciation for help with insect IDs in the gallery to Becky Griffin, University of Georgia Community and School Garden Coordinator, Pollinator Health Associate and National Coordinator of the Great Southeast Pollinator Census at the UGA-Mountain Research & Education Center in Blairsville, Georgia.