Zann Cannon Goff

https://bozannical.wordpress.com/

Zann Cannon Goff works at Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco as buyer/coordinator for the design team, and is a freelance gardener certified in landscape design and maintenance, nursery center operation, and cut flower production. “That’s school study; the real education comes in exploring what’s around me and sharing my vision. Thoreau said, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.’” Follow Zann’s blog at www.bozannical.wordpress.com.


Andrea Watts

Andrea Watts is a graduate student at the University of Washington studying silviculture and science communication, combining her enjoyment of writing and forests. When she’s not doing fieldwork for her Master’s thesis, she purses freelance writing. Andrea has been published in The Daily World and is pending publication in The Pet Connection Magazine.


Greg Graves

Old Goat Farm

https://oldgoatfarm.com/

Greg Graves is the former head gardener at the Miller Botanic Garden in Seattle, Washington. He has a BS in Environmental Science and an AA in Landscape Design and Ornamental Horticulture. Prior to his passion for horticulture, he worked for Burlington Northern for many years. Greg is currently serving as president of the Pacific Horticulture board of directors. Today Greg and his partner Gary Waller, own Old Goat Farm in Orting, Washington, where they tend choice plants, chickens, turkeys, ducks, goats, and other living things. www.oldgoatfarm.com.


Bill Marken

Bill Marken was editor-in-chief of Sunset and Garden Design magazines. He now is writing for several print and online publications, including Garden Design and Landscape Architecture magazine, for which he writes a column called “Palette,” which describes how landscape architects design with plants.


Ann Northrup

Ann Northrup spent her undergraduate years at the University of Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in microbiology. Her interest in plant pathology started there, but she took a five-year diversion to work in the field of medical diagnostics at Bio Rad Labs in Richmond, California, and another two years as a molecular biology research assistant at UC Irvine. Returning to plant pathology, Ann earned a master’s degree UC Berkeley. She has worked primarily in disease diagnostics of ornamental plants, first with Soil and Plant Lab in Orange, California, and then with Nurserymen’s Exchange in Half Moon Bay.

Ann currently consults privately in plant pathology and arboriculture and teaches horticulture classes at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills and Merritt College in Oakland. One of her professional pleasures is volunteering at the Sick Plant Clinic. She is also an active volunteer in the UCCE Master Gardener program for Santa Clara County. In her spare time, she enjoys playing her flute in a woodwind quintet in Saratoga and with the Saratoga Community Band conducted by her husband. And of course … she gardens.


Lorene Edwards Forkner

Lorene Edwards Forkner lives and gardens in Seattle where she pursues a good and delicious life filled with family and friends together with all things horticultural, believing that the really good part is in the blending of one’s passions.

Lorene is the author of five garden books including Hortus Miscellaneous (Sasquatch Books), Handmade Garden Projects, and The Timber Press Guide Vegetable Gardening: Pacific Northwest. Lorene is also the author of the newly released “Color In and Out of the Garden,” Abrams Books, 2022. Follow along at ahandmadegarden.com. She was the editor of Pacific Horticulture from 2012-2019.


Debra Prinzing

https://www.debraprinzing.com

Debra Prinzing is an award-winning author, speaker, and a leading advocate for American-grown flowers. She is the creator of Slowflowers.com, a free online directory that helps consumers find florists, designers, studios, and farms that supply American grown flowers. Debra is the producer and host of the Slow Flowers Podcast with Debra Prinzing, which is available for free download on iTunes or at www.debraprinzing.com.


Frederique Lavoipierre

Frederique Lavoipierre is the creator and author of “Garden Allies,” a series that ran for 10 years in Pacific Horticulture magazine. She also teaches classes and workshops on sustainable landscaping, including ecological principles, habitat gardens, beneficial insects, soil ecology, freshwater ecology, and aquatic invertebrates. Follow her on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Garden.Allies.


Lee Neff

Lee Neff is a garden writer and occasional contributor to Pacific Horticulture. She lives and gardens in Kingston, Washington, where she is active with the Flotsam and Jetsam Garden Club and the Northwest Horticultural Society. Her husband John M Neff, MD, is director of the Center for Children with Special Needs at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Both Lee and John have been enthusiastic supporters of the Seattle Children’s PlayGarden.


Mary Wilbur

Mary Wilbur, a native of Wales, worked in the field of psychiatric care, and has gardened in England and New York. She is now active with the Greater Trinidad Garden Club in Trinidad, California, where she has lived and gardened for more than a decade.