Presenter

Josie Pazdzior

Josie has been active in the Ottawa area gardening community since the late 1990’s, working as a volunteer with the Master Gardeners, the Ottawa Horticultural Society, Canadensis, and the Ottawa Valley Rock Gardening and Horticultural Society. She studied horticulture at Algonquin College, and continues to learn with Master Gardeners and to take advantage of all the opportunities available to us. Josie has had a small personal business consulting and coaching, helping people design their gardens and solve garden problems. She makes sure to emphasize the importance of following best practices to support biodiversity and our native ecology. But rocky landscapes, alpines and other small plants are the ones that really excite her imagination. She finds growing them from seed can be fascinating, even when some don’t germinate as we wish!