Kathy Musial is curator of living collections at the Huntington Botanical Gardens where she has worked for more than twenty-five years. She serves on the board of directors of Pacific Horticultural Society, leads tours for the Society, and is a collaborator on the soon-to-be-published Conifers around the World.

[[ED note:  this is a pseudonym for Caroline Stone, second wife of George Waters.  SFgate obit in link]]

Phil Wood, owner of Phil Wood Garden Design, enjoys working with homeowners to create expressive gardens that emphasize plants and designs appropriate to the Pacific Northwest. A graduate of the landscape architecture program at the University of Washington, he writes about garden design for the Seattle Times.

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.