Looking for a speaker for your garden club, conference, or symposium who is able to address:
- Native plants
- Wildlife habitat gardens
- Native plant pollinators
- Ecosystem Gardening for Wildlife
- Birdscaping
- Butterfly gardens
- Native alternatives to Invasive Plants
- Attracting native pollinators
- Native plants for rain gardens and stormwater management
- Landscape design with native plants
- and much more
Our experts from our sister sites Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens and Beautiful Wildlife Garden are a great place to start.
Please see our Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens Upcoming Events page to see where we’ll be next.
Carole Sevilla Brown (PA)–Author, educator, speaker. Author of Ecosystem Gardening, Founder and managing editor at two team websites: Beautiful Wildlife Garden and also Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens, creator of FindNativePlants.com and the Wildlife Garden Academy. Carole Sevilla Brown travels around North America speaking at conferences and symposia and giving workshops about Ecosystem Gardening for Wildlife. Topics include:
- Why Your Garden (and native plants) Matters to Wildlife
- The 5 Pillars of Ecosystem Gardening: Sustainable Landscaping, Water-Wise Gardening, Soil Health, Remove Invasive Plants, Plant more native plants
- Birdscaping Your Garden with Native Plants
- Creating a Butterfly Garden with Native Plants
- Planning and Designing Your Ecosystem Garden with Native Plants
- Using Native Plants to Attract Wildlife
- How to Design and Install a Wildlife Pond
- How to Design and Create a Wildflower Meadow for Wildlife
Judy Burris (KY), Author of several books including Life Cycles of Butterflies
- The Magic of Butterflies
- Butterfly Gardening
Emily DeBolt (NY)–Emily is the owner of Fiddlehead Creek Native Plant Nursery and is also a trained environmental educator who enjoys sharing her love of native plants with others. Emily is very passionate about native alternatives to invasive plants and natives for rain gardens and shoreline buffers to protect the water quality of our local waters – but is also very knowledgeable about a wide variety of topics related to gardening with native plants. She is available to talk for local garden clubs or other groups at meetings or conferences in the Upstate New York area. Topics Include:
- Gardening with Native Plants
- Native Plants for Rain Gardens
- Native Plants for Stormwater
- Native Plants for Native Birds
- Native Plants for Butterflies & Pollinators
- Native Alternatives for Invasive Plants
- have another idea? let me know.
Heather Holm (MN)–Author of Pollinators of Native Plants, I regularly speak to gardening, birding, landscaping and native plant groups in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Topics Include:
- Restoring your own Landscape with Native Plants
- Insects in the Garden, the Foundation of a Healthy Food Web
- Native Bees of MN & The Native Plants they Pollinate
- Identifying and Attracting Pollinators to the Wildlife Garden
- Attracting Birds to Your Wildlife Garden with Native Plants
- Native Plants for Minnesota Landscapes
- Invasive Plant Identification & Control Methods
- Native Food Plants of Minnesota’s Butterflies & Moths
Beatriz Moisset (PA), Author of Beginners Guide to Pollinators and Other Flower Visitors
- Pollinators: Flowers Best Friends
- Biocontrols: the Good Bugs that Keep the Bad Ones in Check
- The Web of Life: Mycorrhizae, Soil Organisms, Biocontrols, Pollinators and More
- Invasive Alien Insects and Ways to Fight Them
- The Milkweed Zoo: a Look at all the Milkweed Fauna
- The Goldenrod Zoo: a Look at its Rich Fauna
Jesse Elwert Peters (NY)– is an ecologist and eco-friendly landscape designer in Saratoga Springs, NY. She is available for speaking engagements on these subjects:
- Butterfly habitat gardening
- Bird Habitat gardening
- Pollinator gardens
- How to Incorporate Native Plants in Your Landscaping
- Organic Edible gardening
- Habitat Gardening
- Birds
- Hummingbirds
- Butterflies and moths
- Pollinators (yep, she’s a bug nut)
- Bird and wildlife gardening
- Native plants for the Pacific Northwest, the East, the Midwest, and the Rockies, where every plant feels like her friend
- Wildflowers
- Perennials
- Garden design made simple & fun
Kathy Settevendemie, (ND)–Blackfoot Native Plants Nursery owner in Montana and active promoter of native plants in landscaping. Kathy is an educator, speaker, wildlife enthusiast and gardener who tirelessly shares her love of native plants. Topics include:
- Gardening with Native Plants for Wildlife
- Growing a Native Plant Garden
- Landscaping with Natives
- Weeds to Wildflowers – Transforming a Landscape
- Native Plant Propagation
- Choosing the Right Plant for the Right Place in Montana
Ellen Sousa, Author of The Green Garden: A New England Guide to Planting and Maintaining the Eco-Friendly Habitat Garden. Topics include:
- Pollinator-friendly Landscaping
- Creating Bird and Butterfly-friendly Gardens
- Habitat Gardening
- Landscaping with Northeast Native Plants
- Earth-friendly Landscaping
- Growing Food Gardens from Seed
- Spring-Blooming Native New England Plants
- Gardening Under Trees
Pat Sutton (NJ)–Author of 4 books, including the landmark Birds and Birding at Cape May: What to See and Where to Go, Pat is a free-lance writer, photographer, naturalist, educator, lecturer, tour leader, and wildlife garden consultant. Sutton’s own wildlife garden is a “teaching garden” featured in many programs and workshops she teaches and is included on many tours, including tours of private wildlife gardens that she has led for 22 years. Topics include:
- Backyard Habitat for Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies, and More!
- How to Create a Pollinator Garden
- Milkweeds for Monarchs
- Weeds for Wildlife
- How to Create a Wildflower Meadow
- How to Create a No-Fuss Wildlife Pond
- Dragonfly Primer
- Battlestar Backyardia – Battling the Alien Invaders – How to deal with invasive species
- Landscape Design With Wildlife in Mind
- Common Backyard Birds Attracted to a Backyard Habitat — Create it and they will come
- Hummingbirds 101 — All about Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and how to attract them
- Birds and Birding at Cape May
- How to Spot Butterflies
- How to Spot an Owl
- How to Spot Hawks and Eagles
Mark Turner (WA) Author/Photographer of Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
- Native Plants of the Pacific NW
- Endemic Plants of the Pacific Northwest
- iPhone Photography
- Wildflower Photography
- Digital Wildflower Photography with a Pocket Camera
Susan J. Tweit (CO) Author of 12 books, including Walking Nature Home. Field ecologist, plant biologist and passionate gardener who grows a bountiful organic kitchen garden, and also enjoys restoration landscaping, reviving blighted landscapes by reweaving native plant communities.
- Wildlife Habitat Gardening
- Pollinator Gardens
- Field Notes: Writing From Life
- Cultivating a Sustainable Kitchen Garden
Benjamin Vogt (NE) Author of Sleep, Creep, Leap.
- Butterfly Gardening
- Rain Gardens
- Native Nebraska Wildflowers
- Gardening Made Easier
- Monarch Butterflies
- Writing Our Gardens
- Creating My Prairie Garden
We need speakers for our evening meetings in Waxahachie, Texas.
I am looking for speakers to come to our garden club in Englewood, Florida! Topics very but birdscaping….organic gardening…Florida native trees…edible landscaping etc.