Horticulturist. 

My name is Cinthia Milner. I’m a horticulturist.

I work for a charming garden center and landscape company as the sales/design department manager. About a billion times a week, someone says, wow, you have the coolest job ever, and I do.

Being surrounded by beautiful and unusual plants while being creative and helping others be creative, is not a bad gig. I seriously love what I do.

I live in Brevard, North Carolina, about two seconds from the Pisgah National Forest, a rainforest. So yes, it rains a lot here—it is raining now. But it makes for a heck of a place to garden, something I never really stop doing. Plants are characters in my life, complete with personalities, opinions, and winning smiles. I know more plants than I do people.

Writer.

I’m also a writer. And, you’d think, what with the cool job, living in a rainforest, and always messing with plants, that I’d write about gardening. Well, I do, and I don’t. I write about life, which for me happens in the garden–or I should say my life gets sorted in the garden. When anxiety reigns, or heartbreak is huge, it’s the garden that is my refuge. And it is there that healing happens. So yeah, I write about life which for me is mainly lived in a garden. 

Like plants, we’re often uprooted and transplanted. But, still blooming? Hopefully.

Believer.

Finally, I am blessed to know Christ. What a relief it is, Grace.