Janette’s expertise in gardening & landscape design has been cultivated for close to 20 years. She provides garden coaching and landscape designer consulting for private clients in Ontario. She also gives slide lectures on gardening topics from a landscape designer's perspective. From 1993-2003 she established and ran Cobourg’s Gardens Past, a shop specializing in quality garden décor and unusual perennials. She is a former educator and has a background in workshop development and facilitation. Her garden has been on tour several times and was featured in an article on Port Hope Gardens in The Ontario Gardener magazine. 

Primary topic: Landscape Design for Hands-on Gardeners

Plus others including: the making of a garden (hers); garden design for old houses; and the ten most common landscape design mistakes and how to fix them.

CHEX TV, Peterborough, Ontario (2003) Two 9-minute segments. One illustrating landscape design for do-it-yourself gardeners in my own garden. The second was the distillation of an actual landscape design consultation for clients in Peterborough.

Janette has been a featured speaker for the following Ontario groups:

Leaside Garden Society (2006)

Port Hope Horticultural Society (twice, 2005 most recently)

Peterborough Horticultural Society (twice, 2003 most recently)

Bobcaygeon Horticultural Society (2003)

Spring Fling Fundraiser for Northumberland Big Sisters (2003, 2004)

North Toronto Horticultural Society, Civic Garden Centre (2002)

Millbrook & Area Garden Club (2002)

Kate’s Garden Lecture Series, Markham (2002)

Oshawa Garden Club (2001)

Architectural Conservancy Organization,, Port Hope (Gardens for Old Houses) (2000)

Victoria Hall Garden Lecture Series, Cobourg (1995)

Board of Education PD Day (1995)

Haldimand Horticultural Society, Grafton

Gore’s Landing Horticultural Society

Cobourg Horticultural Society