manager/curator, Elizabeth C Miller Library
UW Botanic Gardens, Seattle

Paddy Wales, author of Journeys Through the Garden, has published many images and articles in Canadian and American books and magazines. She teaches photography, lectures on gardening and photography, and is working to build a new botanical garden in her town of Roberts Creek, near Vancouver, British Columbia.

Glenda Jones, following a career in graphic arts, began a garden maintenance service in 1990, while studying horticulture at Foothill College. She continues her life-long passion for gardening, maintaining her own small Palo Alto garden with a focus on California native plants and compatible mediterranean climate plants.

Erik Hagiwara-Nagata is a specialty rare plant grower and proprietor of Garden Delights Nursery in Sonoma County. He can be reached via his website, through which he is available to answer questions about plants.

Marsha Stout has been growing organic edibles and ornamentals at her home for twenty years. A member of the California Rare Fruit Growers, her prime interest in temperate and subtropical fruits, and enjoys trialing fruits not commonly grown in her frost-free area of Santa Monica.

Terry Hernstrom, a third-generation landscape professional from Illinois, is the director of gardens and grounds at Kimberly Crest House and Gardens in Redlands, California. He also is active with the Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society and the Friends of Prospect Park.

Gayle Richardson is chair of the NPA Seed Exchange, based in the Seattle area. She is currently coddling seedlings of Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’ and Paradisea liliastrum and can be reached at seeds@northwestperennialalliance.org.

Nanette Londeree, garden writer and Master Gar-dener, serves on the board of the Marin Art & Garden Center. This life-long gardener is now immersed in her primary passion— horticulture—working in her Marin County garden, coaching others with their gardens, and developing garden education programs for all ages.

Emily Griswold is assistant director of horticulture at the UC Davis Arboretum and leads a volunteer effort to renovate the demonstration gardens in Davis Central Park.