Demitra Bowles Lathrop holds a degree in English literature from University of California at Berkeley. She has served as editor and contributor to various arts, design, and literary publications. She lives and gardens in San Francisco, where she is active with a number of philanthropic groups.
Donna Brigham and her husband Steve are the proprietors of Buena Creek Gardens, located in San Marcos in northern San Diego County. Both have been active in the nursery industry in California for several decades.
Michael Marriott is the technical manager for David Austin Roses in Wolverhampton, England. He travels around the world on behalf of the nursery to promote the exceptional English Roses produced by David Austin, and enjoys meeting with growers to learn of the successes of these roses in the different microclimates where they are grown.
Donn L Todt served as horticulturist for the Ash-land, Oregon Parks Department for thirty years. His current research focuses on human roles in plant geography and landscape history. He now serves as head gardener for the landscape around his old house in Corvallis, Oregon.
Linda Urbaniak, a lifelong gardener and plantaholic, is constantly curious about plants, new and old. She has been a docent at Bellevue Botanical Garden for the past ten years, and is a frequent lecturer on garden subjects and native plants throughout the Puget Sound area. The Woodside-Atherton Garden Club, a member of the Garden Club of America, is a nonprofit group of neighborhood friends devoted to promoting knowledge and appreciation of horticulture, flower arranging, gardening, and conservation. Their largest annual fundraising event is the Plant Sale at the Woodside Library Native Plant Garden.
Anthony Garza Jr is supervisor of horticulture and grounds, and New World Desert horticulturist at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. A graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, he has a particular interest in plants that will withstand rising sea levels, insect plagues, and germ warfare.
Derick Pitman works with the San Francisco Botanical Gardens at Strybing Arboretum to introduce new Impatiens species into cultivation. Founder of the International Impatiens Society and creator of an educational website, www.mrimpatiens.com, he is an avid and passionate collector and promoter of Impatiens and other perennials for the garden.
Pam Peirce is a San Francisco-based gardener, author, photographer, and lecturer. The 4th (30th Anniversary) edition classic regional gardening book, Golden Gate Gardening, has just been published. It teaches year-round food gardening in mediterranean California from Eureka to San Luis Obispo, from the foggy coast to hot inland climates like Walnut Creek or San Jose. Her book Wildly Successful Plants covers botany and use of 50 plucky, historic, mid-California ornamentals. Pam earned a BA in plant science, taught horticulture at City College of San Francisco for nearly 30 years, lectures and writes widely on gardening and food issues. You can follow her future appearances on her website: pampeirce.com, which also provides a link to her blog.
Jeff Lowenfels is a garden writer and attorney in Alaska, and a leading proponent of gardening using the concepts of the soil food web. Wayne Lewis is a lifelong Alaskan gardener who has worked with Jeff on many projects, including the national Plant a Row for the Hungry program, which was started in Anchorage by Jeff.
