Past Speakers

2023

Nick McCullough, Designer, Nursery Owner, Author, New Albany, OH

Abra Lee, Author and Story Teller, Horticulturalist, Atlanta, GA

Jay Sifford, Garden Designer, Charlotte, NC

Angela Treadwell Palmer, Horticulturalist, West Newbury, MA

Irene Palmer, Plant Breeder, Mills River, NC

Jon Roethling, Director of Horticulture, Winston Salem, NC

Andrew Bunting, Vice President of Horticulture, Philadelphia, PA

*Positions held and locations at the time of the 2023 symposium

2022

Marianne Wilburn, Garden Writer and Speaker, Lovettsville, VA

Scott Beuerlein, Manager of Botanical Garden Outreach, Cincinnati, OH

Joseph Tychonievich, Horticulturalist and Garden Writer, South Bend, IN

Richard Hawke, Plant Evaluation Manager, Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago, IL

Carol Reese, Extension Horticultural Specialist, Jackson, TN

Julie Sherk, Landscape Architect, Associate Professor, NC State, Raleigh, NC

*Positions held and locations at the time of the 2022 symposium

2021

Richard Olsen, Director US National Arboretum, Washington D.C.

Claudia West, Principal at Phyto Studio, Arlington, Virginia

Janet Draper, Horticulturalist, Mary Livingston Ripley Garden, Washington D.C.

Ching-Fang Chen, Landscape Architect, Montgomery County Department of Parks of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Montgomery County, Maryland

*Positions held and locations at the time of the 2021 symposium

2019

Jacqueline van der Kloet, Garden Designer & Plant Expert, Weesp, the Netherlands

Sally O’Halloran, University Teacher, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Andi Pettis, Director of Horticulture Governors Island, NYC, NY

Karen Perkins, Owner, Garden Vision Epimediums, Templeton, MA

Pam Beck, Garden Writer & Photographer, Raleigh, NC

Kelly Holdbrooks, Executive Director Southern Highlands Reserve, Lake Toxaway, NC

Amy Fahmy, Landscape Architect, Sitework Studios, Asheville, NC

*Positions held and locations at the time of the 2019 symposium

2018

Julie Moir-Messervy, Owner, Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio, Saxtons River, VT

Kelly Norris, Director of Horticulture, Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, IA

Tom Ranney, JC Raulston Distinguished Professor of Horticulture Science, Asheville, NC

Bryce Lane, Lecturer & Undergraduate Coordinator, NCSC Dept. of Horticultural Science, Raleigh, NC

Shannon Currey, Director of Sales & Marketing, Hoffman Nursery, Rougemont, NC

Andrea Sprott, Garden Curator at the Elizabeth Lawrence House & Garden, Charlotte, NC

Cinthia Milner, Garden Coach & Writer, B.B.Barns Garden Center, Asheville, NC

*Positions held and locations at the time of the 2018 symposium

2017

Thomas Rainer, Landscape Architect, Washington, DC

Roy Diblik, Northwind Perennial Farm, Burlington, WI

Larry Mellichamp, Director Emeritus of the UNCC Botanical Gardens, Charlotte, NC

Patrick McMillan, Director of the South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson, SC

Jared Barnes, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

Dan Long, Brushwood Nurseries, Athens, GA

*Positions held and locations at the time of the 2017 symposium