Resume & services

Professional:

Landscape Ontario; Horticultural Member 1978 - present

Listed Canada Who's Who (U of T Press, current edition)

Background:

• Horticultural Consultant, 1978 - present; major contracts include: 

• Toronto School Board instructor 1984 - present
• Seneca College interior plantscape instructor 1990-93
• East End Garden Centre consultant 1984 - 98
• Lower Kootenay Indian Band - historic crop loss claims 1985 - 86 established at $13.5 million
• Niger State College, Nigeria senior lecturer in horticulture 1981 - 83
• prior to 1978:
• White Rose Nurseries: Chief Horticulturalist
• Whimsy Potteries: Chief Horticulturalist
• Sheridan Nurseries, Horticulturist
• Robert Simpson Co: Manager
• Slacks Carnations (Quebec): Chargehand

Publications:

• Green Side Up (Markham: 2 editions, 1976 & 1999)
• The Garden Book & Greenhouse (Toronto: Somerville House 1990) +240,000 sold
• numerous articles for consumer and trade magazines
• regular columns for local newspapers 1976 - present
• City Gardening newsletter 1995 - present

Television:

• The Giddy Gardener host 1978 - 81 York Cable/Scarborough Cable
• Agriculture for the 80s host 1981 - 83 Nigerian National Television
• Morning Show garden expert 1985 - 86 CBC/CFTL
• Canada AM garden expert 1987 - 90 CTV
• Homestyle horticulturist 1995 - CTV/HGTV
• numerous additional guest appearances television/radio Canada and U.S.A.

Additional:

• temperate and tropical horticulture, ornamental and food crops
• designing and supervising installation of landscapes
• commercial and residential reports for development and legal purposes
• garden center operation, staff training, public relations, publicity and publications