About Us
a bit about me...
Donna
Dawson achieved her master gardener certificate in 1995, through the
University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden. She is a current
member of the Royal Horticultural Society as well as the Garden
Writers Association, Affiliate Member Canadian Institute of Travel
Counsellors and member of the North American Travel Journalists
Association.
Donna has been featured in numerous gardening magazines including
Homemaker's, Gardener for the Prairies, Gardens West,
Canadian Gardening and Gardening Life, as well as
local newspapers and Internet sites such as
Familywave.com and
iParenting.com where she is
currently the expert on gardening. She is part of the expert panel
at www.WorldReviewer.com
with her specialty in gardens. She has also had the opportunity to
provide photographs to European Homes & Gardens, BCAA
and Doctor's Review. Donna is the only outside writer for
Tai Pan Travel magazine featuring gardens and plants from around
the world and is also a writer for Vivir Bien, a lifestyle
magazine out of the Republic of Panama where she talks about plants
in tropical areas – in Spanish and English.
Donna has appeared on Canada AM, HGTV's Indoor Gardener
and Calling All Gardeners. She and her husband were one of
the few chosen to do a TV special called "the Garden Tourist"
on Recreating Eden and while in China on tour, she was a
special guest on China TV. She has also been a featured guest
speaker at numerous Canadian gardening events including Canada
Blooms and Victoria's Art in Bloom. One of Donna's favourite hobbies
is collecting photos of unique forms of garden seating from around
the world while on her travels. Those can be seen under the Pix area
of www.icangarden.com
Donna's
garden in St. Albert , Alberta , Canada , won many awards over the
years including Best Cold Climate Garden in Canada from Canadian
Gardening magazine and has been featured both in articles as
well as the cover of Gardens West Magazine. She was
incredibly sad to leave her garden when she moved to Panama in 2006.
From zone 3a to tropical, it has been quite the adjustment, but the
plant material she sees now has opened up another world to her.
While she does not have a garden, she does have a small balcony and
the opportunity to replant the 8 large garden beds that surround the
social/pool area of her new home.
Garden/website bio
As the owner/publisher of the Internet Web site,
www.ICanGarden.com , Donna
Dawson has received many awards and has been recognized in numerous
publications. Since 1996, ICanGarden.com has grown to become Canada
's largest internet gardening resource site visited by thousands of
gardeners daily from over 65 countries. On the site, gardeners share
their trials and successes and in turn learn from the wide variety
of garden articles submitted by writers from all corners of the
earth. Gardeners can also find out what is happening in the Events
area, and if they need a garden club or supplier, they will find it
all on the site. Her husband Tom is the webmaster of both
www.icangarden.com and
www.gardeningtours.com
In 1998 Donna began organizing and hosting gardening tours to
England and Europe . Her custom designed garden tours, which can
include destinations such as Paris, London, Amsterdam, Belgium,
Nice, Florence, China, Ecuador and Dublin as well as flower shows in
Florida, Chelsea, and the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, change
yearly due to repeat guests. The tours have become well known for
bringing gardeners together to share in the joy of seeing how others
garden and to go home with both great memories and new found
friends, which is why some gardeners travel with Donna year after
year.
For more information please visit:
www.gardeningtours.com .
Donna Dawson, Master Gardener
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