About Us

a bit about me...

In 1995 I achieved my Master Gardener certificate through the University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden. The garden won first prize in Canadian Gardening magazine for Cold Climate Gardens and also won first prize in the Edmonton Horticultural Society garden competition for two years in Ecoscaping and first prize in Perennials. I am a past director on the board of the Edmonton Horticultural Society. My area was Speakers and Programs and I was in charge of the EHS Garden Gala... under awards you will see some our awards received for the site and also a press release. In 1999 I was very fortunate to be a finalist for Alberta in the Canadian Women Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards in Start Up.

Through gardening and our garden, we have had the opportunity to host many open gardens and tours and welcome you if you should ever be in our area!

Articles done by others on either ICanGarden.com or our garden have appeared in numerous garden magazines. I have contributed articles to magazines such as Homemaker's, Gardener for the Prairies and Gardening Life as well as Familywave.com and IParenting. I have also had the opportunity to provide photographs that I have taken to European Homes & Gardens, BCAA and Doctor's Review.

Through the site, we have had many opportunities to speak about gardening on the internet - my husband Tom, is the webmaster so we are very much in tune with gardening and with the internet! We began hosting garden tours in 1998 and we are able to speak on that as well with a presentation entitled 'Great Gardens of Europe and England'.

I am a member of the Royal Horticultural Society as well as the Garden Writers Association and Affiliate Member Canadian Institute of Travel Counsellors and in 2003 hosted the GWA Region 7 program in Edmonton, Alberta and in 2004 hosted the GWA Regional Meeting in Ipswich, England.