GardenComm Fellow Honorees
A GardenComm Fellow is a member in good standing who has demonstrated exceptionally high degrees of skill, professional ethics and dedication to the objectives of GardenComm. Fellows are nominated by the membership, recommended by the Honors Committee and elected by the Board of Directors. Two Fellows may be named each year and self-nominations are welcome.
2025 Fellow Honoree - Katie Elzer Peters
Katie Elzer-Peters is considered a master of networking in the horticultural industry, thanks to her garden marketing and public relations business, The Garden of Words, LLC. She has authored seventeen books.
2025 Fellow Honoree - Jessica Walliser
Jessica Walliser is a horticulturist and the award-winning author of seven gardening books. Walliser works as the editorial director for The Quarto Groupβs garden book publishing imprint, Cool Springs Press. Jessica is a two-time winner of the prestigious American Horticultural Society Book Award.
| Name | Year Honored |
|---|---|
| Andrea Wells | 2024 |
| Charlie Nardozzi | 2024 |
| Mary Kaye McKay | 2023 |
| Nan Sterman | 2023 |
| Sally Cunningham | 2022 |
| Bill Johnson | 2022 |
| Nicole Gauderi | 2021 |
| Carol Michel | 2021 |
| Mary B. Good | 2020 |
| Ellen Zachos | 2020 |
| Lois de Vries | 2019 |
| Pat Stone | 2019 |
| Dan Benarcik | 2018 |
| Peggy Anne Montgomery | 2018 |
| Betty Mackey | 2018 |
| Daniel Castelli | 2017 |
| Dee Wiley | 2017 |
| Renee Shepherd | 2016 |
| Jan Riggenbach | 2016 |
| Denny Schrock | 2015 |
| C.L. Fornari | 2014 |
| Stephanie Cohen | 2014 |
| Felder Rushing | 2013 |
| Saxon Holt | 2012 |
| Anne Marie Van Nest | 2012 |
| Deb Tanner | 2011 |
| Richard Tracy | 2011 |
| Cathy Wilkinson Barash | 2010 |
| R. William Thomas | 2010 |
| Nora Wofford Koval | 2009 |
| David Ellis | 2009 |
| Marty Ross | 2008 |
| William Alden | 2007 |
| Maggie Oster | 2007 |
| Denise Cowie | 2006 |
| Alan & Linda Detrick | 2005 |
| Irene Virag | 2005 |
| Rose Marie Nichols McGee | 2004 |
| Mary Ellen Logee Ross | 2004 |
| Thomas Pascoe | 2003 |
| Frederick E. Roberts | 2003 |
| Rian Kinsler | 2003 |
| Don Joss Jermanson | 2001 |
| Barbara Lawton | 2001 |
| Kurt Druse | 2000 |
| Barbara Emerson | 2000 |
| David Tarrant | 2000 |
| Rosalind Creasy | 1999 |
| Jacqueline Hailman | 1998 |
| Jeff Lowenfels | 1998 |
| Walter Chandoha | 1997 |
| Frances Tanenbaum | 1997 |
| Jean Byrne | 1996 |
| Larry & Anissa Esmond White | 1996 |
| Ed Hume | 1995 |
| Michael D. Smith | 1993 |
| Jane Price Kirkwood | 1992 |
| Virginia Lewis Bettis | 1991 |
| Wei Jung | 1991 |
| Russell Morash | 1990 |
| George Elbert | 1989 |
| Theodore R. Marston | 1989 |
| George W. Waters | 1989 |
| Maggie Bayley | 1988 |
| Irma Bertel Dugan | 1988 |
| Joseph E. Howard | 1988 |
| James W. Wilson | 1988 |
| John E. Bryan | 1987 |
| Derek Fell | 1987 |
| Jane Papeer | 1987 |
| F. Gordon Foster | 1986 |
| Fred C. Galle | 1986 |
| Catherine W. Willard | 1986 |
| Loraine M. Burgess | 1985 |
| Dr. Ray C. Allen | 1985 |
| Jeannette Lowe | 1985 |
| Everett M. Miller | 1985 |
| Alice Upham Smith | 1984 |
| Wilbur Youngman | 1984 |
| W.C. βLeeβ Goldman | 1983 |
| Elvin McDonald | 1983 |
| Frederick McGourty | 1983 |
| Paul F. Frese | 1982 |
| Clarence F. Bais | 1982 |
| George W. Talbott | 1982 |
| John E. Bradshaw | 1981 |
| John Burton Dittmar | 1981 |
| Robert A. Nicholson | 1981 |
| G. βDocβ & Katy Abraham | 1979 |
| Alice W. Burlingame | 1979 |
| Roy Hey | 1979 |
| Margaret Hirst | 1978 |
| Dr. R. Milton Carlton | 1977 |
| Gretchen Harthberger | 1977 |
| Gordon D. Lyde | 1977 |
| C. Gordon Milne | 1977 |
| Albert Wilson | 1977 |
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