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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NameJane Sherrott
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General Topics
  • Garden Design, landscaping
Specialty Plants
  • Native Plants
  • Lawn Alternatives
  • Plants to Help Develop Ecologically Vibrant Gardens
  • Tomatoes
Sample topics
  • Native Plants as Lawn Alternatives
Speaker Profile

Jane Sherrott is a hobby gardener who lives on the North Shore. She has volunteered in community gardening projects for twenty seven years as a Master Gardener and received regional and national awards for a therapeutic gardening program, a gardening program for seniors and a native plant, pollinator and butterfly garden she developed. These days her interests are focussed on developing a more ecologically vibrant home garden. As part of this, she has replaced all her grass lawns with an attractive floral tapestry of low, evergreen, principally native groundcovers that do not need mowing, watering or care.

Talk Title and Talk Summary

‘Enhance the Ecological Value or Your Garden by Replacing Your Lawn with Low, Evergreen, Principally Native Groundcovers’
Manicured grass lawns attract chemicals, mowers and blowers – Jane will discuss planting tough, easy-care groundcovers that attract butterflies, bees and birds
and that function as a usable lawn.

Talk Title and Talk Summary

"Tomatoes- From Poison to Passion"
Growing tomatoes over thirty years, Jane has kept notes on other passionate growers' favourites and methods for getting high yields of flavourful fruit. She's grown
a wide range including wild tomatoes with 5' root balls, heirlooms, and specialty breeders' new introductions so she will share information on growing the best
tomatoes in our region, methods for getting long season heirlooms ripe and where tomato breeders are taking tomatoes for the future.

*Manicured grass lawns attract chemicals, mowers and blowers – Jane will discuss planting tough, easy-care groundcovers that attract butterflies, bees and birds and that function as a usable lawn.

**Jane is happy to waive the speaker's fee but, if offered, Jane will be happy to receive it for the Ambleside Pollinator Garden community project so volunteers can expand the garden and its community activities and for a new 2024 school garden at Dorothy Lynas School in North Vancouver that a kindergarten class is spearheading.

Speaker's Fee$100 - $250