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 email .

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.

Name	General Topics	Specialty Plants
Joe Ronsley	Special Interest Plants	Woodland
John Brimacombe	Fruits, Fruit Trees Garden Design, landscaping Trees, Arboretums, Arborists Special Interest Plants	Palms - Hardy Exotics - Hardy Succulents - Hardy Citrus Eucalyptus
John McIntosh	Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.
Jordan Maynard	Fruits, Fruit Trees Vegetables Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests Herbs, growing and using Special Interest Plants	Outdoor and Farming education program
Joshua Yu	Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests Special Interest Plants	Butterflies
Judie Davis Glick	Floral Arts, Floral Design, Flower Arrangements	Ikebana
Julia Common	Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests
Karen Myskiw	Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening Garden Design, landscaping
Kerrie Hart	Special Interest Plants
Kim Greenwood	Vegetables Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.	Veggetables Compost
Linda Beer	Vegetables Container Gardening, Small Space Gardening Herbs, growing and using Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.	Saving Seed, soil, composting
Linda Chalker-Scott	Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests Healthy soil, fertilizers, soil amendments, etc.
Linda Stanley Wilson	Garden Insects, Bees, Butterflies, Garden Pests Garden Photography Herbs, growing and using Special Interest Plants	Native plants
Lori Snyder	Special Interest Plants	Indigenous wisdom with wild, native and medicinal plants
Lorna Herchenson	Special Interest Plants	Fuchsias Begonias
Name	General Topics	Specialty Plants