About Us
ICanGarden.com began in 1995 by Master Gardener, Donna Dawson, with a view to
providing information to gardeners. Since its origin, ICanGarden has grown to
include information on over 400 garden clubs, almost 300 public gardens, over
6500 articles from over 150 garden writers, gardening events from around the
world, over 800 links, over 900 suppliers and thousands of forum and member
items.
Donna Dawson - Background
Donna Dawson achieved her master gardener certificate in 1995, through
the University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden. She is a current
member of the Royal Horticultural Society as well as the Garden Writers
Association, Affiliate Member Canadian Institute of Travel Counsellors
and member of the North American Travel Journalists Association.
Donna has been featured in numerous gardening magazines including
Homemaker's, Gardener for the Prairies, Gardens West, Canadian Gardening
and Gardening Life, as well as local newspapers and Internet sites such
as Familywave.com and
iParenting.com where she is currently the expert
on gardening. She is part of the expert panel at
www.WorldReviewer.com
with her specialty in gardens. She has also had the opportunity to
provide photographs to European Homes & Gardens, BCAA and Doctor's
Review. Donna is the only outside writer for Tai Pan Travel magazine
featuring travel, gardens and plants from around the world and is also a
writer for Vivir Bien, a lifestyle magazine out of the Republic of
Panama where she talks about plants and places in tropical areas – in
Spanish and English.
Donna has appeared on Canada AM, HGTV's Indoor Gardener and Calling All
Gardeners. She and her husband were one of the few chosen in 1997 as
"Internet Persons of the Year" and in 2008 to do a
Television special called “the Garden Tourist” on Recreating Eden. While in China
in 2008 on tour, she was a special guest on the Travel Channel,
China TV. She has also been a featured guest speaker at numerous
Canadian gardening events including Canada Blooms and Victoria's Art in
Bloom. One of Donna’s favourite hobbies is collecting photos of unique
forms of garden seating from around the world while on her travels.
Those can be seen under the Pix area of
www.icangarden.com
Donna’s
personal garden in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, won many awards over the
years including Best Cold Climate Garden in Canada from Canadian
Gardening magazine and has been featured both in articles as well as the
cover of Gardens West Magazine. She was incredibly sad to leave her
garden when she moved to Panama in 2006. From zone 3a to tropical, it
has been quite the adjustment, but the plant material she sees now has
opened up another world to her. While she does not have a garden, she
does have a small balcony and the opportunity to replant the 8 large
garden beds that surround the social/pool area of her new home.
Garden/website Bio
As the owner/publisher of the Internet Web site,
www.ICanGarden.com,
Donna Dawson has received many awards and has been recognized in
numerous publications. Since 1995, ICanGarden.com has grown to become
Canada’s largest internet gardening resource site visited by thousands
of gardeners daily from over 65 countries. On the site, gardeners share
their trials and successes and in turn learn from the wide variety of
garden articles submitted by writers from all corners of the earth.
Gardeners can also find out what is happening in the Events area, and if
they need a garden club or supplier, they will find it all on the site.
In 1998 Donna began organizing and hosting gardening tours to England
and Europe. Her custom designed garden tours, which can include
destinations such as Paris, London, Amsterdam, Belgium, Nice, Florence,
China, Ecuador and Dublin as well as flower shows in Florida, Chelsea,
and the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, change yearly due to repeat
guests. The tours have become well known for bringing gardeners together
to share in the joy of seeing how others garden and to go home with both
great memories and new found friends, which is why some gardeners travel
with Donna year after year. For more information please visit:
www.gardeningtours.com.
Contact Information
Donna Dawson
donna@icangarden.com
Tom Dawson
tomd@icangarden.com
Telephone:
Toll Free 1-866-642-7120
Local 1-780-669-0117
