Speakers
Panayoti Kelaidis
Panayoti Kelaidis is a plant explorer, gardener and public garden administrator associated with Denver Botanic Gardens where he is now Senior Curator and Director of Outreach.
Paul Gellatly
A passionate life-long horticulturist, Paul was featured on Season 1 of the award-winning television documentary series ‘Visionary Gardeners’. Paul is currently the CEO of The Tattooed Gardener Inc. He has been Director of Horticulture at the Toronto Botanical Garden, the Curatorial Gardener at The Toronto Zoo, managing one of Canada’s largest tropical plant collections, and the former Vice-President of the Etobicoke Horticultural Society.
Paul Spriggs
Paul Spriggs has been rock gardening for roughly 22 years and building crevice gardens for about 15 years.
He is an avid plant explorer, photographer, mountaineer, owner of Spriggs Gardens Landscaping company, and current President of the Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society.
Paul Zammit
Bio: Paul Zammit, is a graduate of the University of Guelph and is an instructor of Horticulture at Niagara College.
Peter Korn
Web Site: http://www.peterkornstradgard.se
Peter Zale
Peter Zale, Ph.D holds a Master’s degree and Ph.D in plant breeding and genetics (2009, 2014) from The Ohio State University
René Giguère
Bio: Rene is newly retired from the Montreal Botanical Garden where he was curator of the alpine garden at for 23 years.
Robert Pavlis
Robert Pavlis is a well-known speaker, and educator with over 40 years of gardening experience. He is the author of several books, Building Natural Ponds, Soil Science for Gardeners and Garden Myths
Sean James
Named by GardenMaking magazine as one of “20 Making a Difference” and by Landscape Ontario 2020 and 2021’s Garden Communicator of the Year, Sean has been gardening professionally since he was sixteen and speaking to horticultural societies for more than 25 years.
Sharon and John Bowler
Sharon and John Bowler are members of the Grimsby Garden Club and the Ontario Rock Garden and Hardy Plant Society.