Event category: Speakers

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Paul Zammit

With over 35 years of experience, Zammit has become a respected figure in the world of gardening. Zammit is a faculty member at Niagara College ...
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Robert Leclerc – Dwarf and Alpine Shrubs for a Niche Garden

Robert Leclerc has over 50 years of gardening experience in Sutton, Quebec and was an integral member of the Alpine Mt. Echo Nursery for 15 ...
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Rebecca Last – Lessons from my Big Fat Garden Reno

Rebecca Last has been gardening on and off since age eight and has been a member of Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton since 2005. Her small ...
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Dr. Christie Lovat – Eat Your Garden: Serious Edible Landscaping

Christie Lovat has a bachelors in Botanical Science, a Masters in Plant Ecology, and a PhD in Tree Ecology, specifically the conservation of the rare ...
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Roger Quenneville and Sarah Beaupré Quenneville of Au Beau Pré – Dahlia Care: From Tubers to Blooms

Roger Quenneville and Liliane Beaupré founded Production St-Anicet in 2007, a company specializing in the production of dahlia tubers. Their dahlia tubers are shipped annually across ...
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Catherine McGill – Planting with a Twist

When asked for a short biography Catherine started it with “Aging, round, humour in a nutshell” and we think that bodes well for a GOOD ...
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Orysia Krywiak
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Orysia Krywiak – Flower Arranging Demonstration

Orysia has been a florist for over 30 years, starting with her first flower shop in Westmount 20 years ago and now as a co-owner ...
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Dan Cooper – Gardening From a Hammock, How to Create a Low Maintenance Garden

Dan Cooper has been a Master Gardener for over 25 years and is the co-author of Gardening from a Hammock, a book on low maintenance ...
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Lorraine Johnson
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Lorraine Johnson – Climate Change and the Garden

Lorraine Johnson is a writer, editor and community advocate who, when pressed to describe what unifies her work, has settled on the term cultivation activist. ...
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