Speaker Directory

The BC Council of Garden Clubs has compiled a list of speakers who are willing to speak to garden clubs and organizations on various garden related topics.

While this list is fairly comprehensive, it does not contain all the names of knowledgeable speakers in BC. If you would like to suggest a name for this list or if you wish to have your name added to this list, please contact the Speaker List Coordinator.

Please note the following:

  • The BC Council of Garden Clubs does not accept any responsibility for the quality or the content of any presentation by these individuals.
  • It is the responsibility of the gardening organization to negotiate the terms of the presentation with the speaker (including topic, travel and expenses, fees, etc.)
  • Fees listed are provided as guideline and are subject to change at the discretion of the speaker without notice to the Council.
  • Please click on a speaker name from the table below for more detail.

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NameKerrie Hart

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(604) 988-0866
General Topics
  • Special Interest Plants
Speaker Profile

Travel accommodations to Vancouver Island and the Interior

Sample topics
  • Gardening with ease: Explore ways to move that place less strain on the body
  • Discussions re. choices of tools and set up to avoid pain and injury

NameKim Greenwood

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Speaker's FeeNegotiable
Phone(250) 245-4475
General Topics
  • Vegetables
  • Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
  • Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.
Specialty Plants
  • Veggetables
  • Compost
Speaker Profile

Vegetables Compost

Sample topics
  • Salad Gardening in Small Spaces and Containers
  • Grow your own Veggies for Beginners
  • Grow your own 365 - Winter Vegetables
  • Growing Gardeners - Containers for Kids
  • How to Preserve the Harvest
  • Composting 101 - 6 Different Types of Compost

NameLinda Beer

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Speaker's Fee$250 - $400
Phone(250) 539-2717
General Topics
  • Vegetables
  • Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
  • Herbs, growing and using
  • Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.
Specialty Plants
  • Saving Seed, soil, composting
Speaker Profile

Linda Beer Environmental Technologist Advanced Master Gardener Organic Master Gardener Small Scale Farmer Linda is passionate about growing food. Everywhere she has lived, the Prairies, Switzerland, the Lower Mainland, and

Sample topics
  • The Miraculous Seed, Get Growing!
  • Soils and Composting
  • The Garden in Autumn

NameLinda Chalker-Scott

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Speaker's FeeNegotiable
Phone(253) 219-1268
General Topics
  • Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.
Specialty Plants
  • Diagnosing landscape problems. Garden myth debunking
  • Installing trees and shrubs correctly. The landscape underground: roots, microbes, and soils
  • Mulches. Myth-busting information on garden products and practices
  • Native and nonnative trees and shrubs. Selecting healthy plants at the nursery
  • Soil testing and management. Sustainable garden and landscape management
  • Tree myth debunking. Weed management
Speaker Profile

Urban landscape soil management *** Please note Linda is a professor of the Washington State University and travel expenses and accommodations are to be negotiated***

Sample topics
  • Food Safety
  • Horticulture in ecological restoration
  • How plants survive in urban environments
  • Mulches
  • Myth debunking
  • Pest management
  • Selecting healthy plants and installing them correctly
  • Sustainable garden and landscape management

NameLori Snyder

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Speaker's Fee$250 - $400
Phone(778) 869-3217
General Topics
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Indigenous wisdom with wild, native and medicinal plants
Speaker Profile

LoriAnn Bird (Snyder) is an indigenous herbalist and educator, with a deep knowledge of medicinal and edible plants that grow in the most common and everyday spaces. Through LoriAnn's eyes

Sample topics
  • Indigenous wisdom using wild, native and medicinal plants

NameLorna Herchenson

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Speaker's FeeNegotiable
Phone(604) 929-5382
General Topics
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Fuchsias
  • Begonias
Sample topics
  • Fuchsias and Begonias

NameLucretia Schanfarber

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(250) 285-2213
General Topics
  • Fruits, Fruit Trees
  • Vegetables
  • Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
  • Herbs, growing and using
  • Special Interest Plants
  • Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.
Specialty Plants
  • Superfood Edible Landscapes featuring berries, figs, herbs, healing plants
Speaker Profile

Lucretia Schanfarber is a dedicated organic gardener, motivational speaker and writer. Her mission is to motivate and teach people to Cultivate Edible Landscapes & Superfood Gardens while Building Soil Health

Sample topics
  • "Grow Your Own SuperFoods & Build Your Own SuperSoil!"

NameLynda Mallinson

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(236) 998-7464
General Topics
  • Floral Arts, Floral Design, Flower Arrangements
Specialty Plants
  • Cut Flowers
Speaker Profile

Lynda Mallinson has a Home Economics degree from the University of Manitoba. Lynda is gifted at delivering relevant scientific facts that are woven in with humour and story telling. Previous

Sample topics
  • Cut Flowers: Their Meaning to Us and How to Make them Last as Long as Possible

NameMalonie Hewstan

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Speaker's Fee$50 - $100
Phone(604) 814-2280
General Topics
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Hydrangeas
  • Dogwoods
Sample topics
  • Hydrangeas
  • Dogwood Trees and Shrubs
  • Variegated plants
  • Gardening with cardboard

NameMargaret Nakahara

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(604) 980-4430
General Topics
  • Fruits, Fruit Trees
  • Vegetables
  • Water gardens, ponds
  • Floral Arts, Floral Design, Flower Arrangements
  • Herbs, growing and using
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Orchids
Sample topics
  • Orchids
  • Dried Flowers, Herbs, Fruits and Veggies
  • Floral Arranging (Floral Art)
  • Pond and Water Gardens
  • Lifestyles, Homes and Gardening of Ancient Natives of Southern USA
  • Touring Natural History and Historic Sites of Southern USA

NameMargot Moser

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Speaker's Fee$50 - $100
Phone(250) 468-9167
General Topics
  • Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
  • Trees, Arboretums, Arborists
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Hydrangeas
Sample topics
  • Annual and Tender Vines
  • Native Plant Beauties for Small Garden Spaces
  • All about Hydrangeas
  • Fragrant Trees and Shrubs

NameMaria Valana

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Speaker's FeeHonourarium
Phone(250) 320-2398
General Topics
  • Vegetables
  • Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
  • Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.

NameMarilyn Holt

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(604) 302-2728
General Topics
  • Vegetables
  • Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
  • Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
  • Herbs, growing and using
  • Special Interest Plants
  • Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.
Specialty Plants
  • Geraniums and Pelargoniums
Speaker Profile

SPEAKING TOPICS What Plants Require To Excel Soils, Fertilizers and Minerals For Optimum Plant Health Good Bugs, Bad Bugs Fertilizers - Understanding The Numbers & What To Use, When To

Sample topics
  • Fertilizer - What, When and Where; Understanding the Numbers
  • Gardening in Containers and Small Spaces
  • Geraniums and Pelargoniums
  • Good Bugs - Bad Bugs
  • Herbs - Culiary, Cosmetic and Medicinal
  • Seeds from Planting to Saving
  • Soil Stewardship - Soils and What Plants Need
  • Vegetables in Small Spaces and Containers

NameMatthew Young

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(778) 789-3698
General Topics
  • Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
Speaker Profile

Matthew graduated UBC with a BSc in Microbiology and an interest in honeybee diseases and integrated pest management in apiculture. Shortly after, Matthew began working for a local commercial apiary,

Sample topics
  • Pollinators, Bee Phylogeny/ Identification, Beekeeping

NameMichelle Nakano

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Speaker's FeeNegotiable
Phone(604) 599-3304
General Topics
  • Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
  • Water gardens, ponds
  • Garden Design, landscaping
  • Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.
Speaker Profile

Sustainable landscaping Urban Ecosystems

Sample topics
  • Bug Gardens for Conservation Biological Control
  • Green Roof Technology
  • Introduction to Site Grading
  • Landscape Design
  • Landscape Drafting
  • Microorganism Enrichment of Horticultural Media
  • Plant Identification
  • Rain Gardens

NameMike Lascelle

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(604) 463-2419
General Topics
  • Fruits, Fruit Trees
  • Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
  • Garden Design, landscaping
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • fruits and edible ornamental plants
Speaker Profile

Author of two books ('A Grower's Choice''A Place in the Rain - Designing the West Coast Garden') with a new book, 'Extraordinary Ornamental Edibles - 100 Perennials, Trees, Shrubs and

Sample topics
  • 'The Rare Fruit Revolution' 'Foraging the Urban Garden'

NameNicole Winters

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(343) 370-2963
General Topics
  • Garden Design, landscaping
Speaker Profile

With a minor in fine arts, Nicole has developed a unique perspective that blends creativity with horticultural knowledge. As a dedicated member of the Green Thumb Horticultural Society for four

Sample topics
  • Installation Art: Using Plants and Flowers // After this lecture, participants will be able to: 1) Understand Installation Art 2) Learn 3 key elements of creating an art installation using plants and flowers. 3) Be inspired to create your own art installation

NameNora Von Gerichten

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Speaker's FeeNegotiable
Phone(604) 708-4696
General Topics
  • Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Hydroponics
Sample topics
  • Beneficial Bugs
  • Beneficial Fungus
  • Hydroponics

NamePam Erikson

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Speaker's FeeNegotiable
Phone(604) 856-5758
General Topics
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Daylilies
  • Hostas
  • Lilies
Speaker Profile

Daylilies Hostas Lilies

Sample topics
  • Daylilies - several topics available - New introductions
  • Hostas - General presentation on care, culture and best Hostas for your area
  • Lilies - General presentation on the best Asiatic, Oriental, Longiflorums and Trumpet lilies
  • Garden presentations - several topics available including Passions, Our Favourite Plants and more
  • The evolution of Daylilies from Ancient to Modern
  • The Tropical Gardens of Hawaii
  • A Taste of Baltic City Gardens and Beer

NamePamela Dangelmaier

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(604) 513-0100
General Topics
  • Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
  • Floral Arts, Floral Design, Flower Arrangements
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Flower Bulbs
Speaker Profile

Living up to our commitment of Care~Inspire~Grow Botanus is proud to offer an exciting roster of amazing presentations that are intended to inform, excite and inspire. Drawing from years of

NamePatricia Fleming

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(604) 946-9828
General Topics
  • Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Earthwise Society
Sample topics
  • Gardening for Pollinators
  • Feed the Bees
  • Earthwise Society's Garden & Farm

NameRadina Jevdevic

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(604) 720-1406
General Topics
  • Vegetables
  • Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening
  • Herbs, growing and using
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Orchids
Speaker Profile

Organic Gardening Reliable House/Interior Plants Vegetable Container Gardening Why do we Design Gardens Radina is now currently living in West Kelowna

Sample topics
  • Why do we design gardens; The principles of garden design; Garden design for small spaces, medium spaces and large spaces; Garden design for the West Coast; Garden design for the 21st Century
  • Garden design for the West Coast; Garden design for the 21st Century
  • Container gardening by design; Container gardening for balconies/decks; Container gardening for tomatoes; Container gardening for edibles
  • How to care for and re-bloom orchids at home; I promise you a Rose garden
  • Art in the garden
  • Most reliable interior/house plants and how to care for them
  • Edible Weeds
  • Flower arranging

NameRichard Beard

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(778) 870-2152
General Topics
  • Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
  • Special Interest Plants
Specialty Plants
  • Invasive Plants
Sample topics
  • Invasive Plants including Japanese Knotweed
  • Butterflies

NameRon Long

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Speaker's FeeNegotiable
Phone(604) 469-1651
General Topics
  • Garden Photography
Speaker Profile

Ron Long was the sciences photographer at Simon Fraser University for thirty-six years. Early in his career he developed a life long interest in plants and plant photography. Now retired

Sample topics
  • Death Valley Superbloom
  • Flora of Five Deserts - South Africa
  • The Endangered Tundra Plants of Pink Mountain BC.
  • Chasing Wild Orchids and other Botanical Adventures in Western Australia
  • Botany of Chile
  • The Fascinating Native Flora of British Columbia
  • Spring Flowers of Texas
  • Flora of Southern Oregon, as well as Calochorus: The Most Beautiful Genus in the World

NameRyan Foster and Richard Walker

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Speaker's Fee$100 - $250
Phone(778) 476-1022
General Topics
  • Fruits, Fruit Trees
  • Vegetables
  • Trees, Arboretums, Arborists
  • Herbs, growing and using
Specialty Plants
  • Food Forestry, aka Edible Forest Gardening
Speaker Profile

Edible forest gardening - Food Forestry - is the art and science of putting plants together in woodland-like patterns that forge mutually beneficial relationships, creating a garden ecosystem that is