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A rising star in the New York horticultural world, Wambui Ippolito has gardened for clients such as Martha Stewart and David Letterman, and is much sought after as a speaker. An immigrant from East Africa herself, she is passionate about the contributions that immigrants make to American gardening. Successive waves of immigrants have traditionally been the backbone of the landscape industry in the United States, but too often, says Wambui, they leave behind their special perspectives in the effort to become American. In this conversation Wambui discusses how she connected with the land as a child in Kenya, and makes the case for how the American landscape can be enriched if all of us re-discovered our immigrant roots.
