Master landscape designer Louis Raymond uniquely combines horticultural knowledge and creative vision with true showmanship to teach us about gardening - one minute at a time. Drawing upon his past experiences in medicine, opera singing and creative writing, he brings an unusual perspective to his gardens, many of which have been featured in national publications including USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Metropolitan Home, and the cover of House and Garden Magazine.

Based on his philosophy that gardening should be fun, GardenShorts.com is a new kind of gardening site that is opinionated, organic, and optimistic. With his bigger than life stance and persona (he's 6 feet 2) Louis transports the visitor into his outdoor realm with amusing and sometimes abbreviated video segments that introduce solutions to the problems all gardeners face.

Louis was the first show designer and on-camera host for the New England Spring Flower Show from 1998 through 2004 and has been a guest on the popular PBS program The Victory Garden. New York, his second home, is where Louis manages horticulture for the landmark Turtle Bay Gardens (memorialized by long-time resident E.B. White in "This is New York"), as well as the private gardens of many of its famous residents, including Stephen Sondheim.

After many years of creating private gardens for clients with his company Renaissance Gardening Ltd, Louis has been able to bring balance to his design practice by becoming active in the community garden movement. First as a volunteer, then board member, and now board president of his home state of Rhode Island's largest "C-G" catalyst, the Southside Community Land Trust, Louis is a committed advocate for broadening access to economical and healthy food via neighborhood family plots, farm preservation, farmers' markets, and after-school garden programs.

Louis is a frequent guest lecturer for horticultural societies, museums, garden clubs, civic organizations, arboretum societies and theater associations—everywhere people gather to learn about and celebrate gardens and gardening.