Donna Dawson
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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. During its twelve year history, ICanGarden.com has grown to become Canada’s largest Internet gardening resource site visited by thousands of gardeners daily from all over the world. In 1998 Donna began organizing and hosting gardening tours to England and Europe. Her custom designed garden tours, which change yearly due to repeat guests, can be seen at www.gardeningtours.com In 1995, Donna achieved her master gardener certificate 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 North American Travel Journalists Association. She has appeared 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 Home Style 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. She is the only outside writer for TaiPan Travel magazine featuring gardens and plants from around the world her articles are in both Cantonese and English and is a writer for Vivir Bien, a lifestyle magazine out of the Republic of Panama where she talks about plants in tropical areas in Spanish and English . One of the hobbies that she has is collecting photos of seating from around the world while on her travels. Those can be seen under the Pix area of www.icangarden.com She has appeared in numerousgardening magazines including Homemaker's, Gardener for the Prairies, GardensWest, Canadian Gardening and Gardening Life, as well as local newspapers andInternet sites such as Familywave.com and iParenting.com where she is currentlythe expert on Home Style on gardening. She is part of the expert panel. ICanGarden.com is her way of bringing gardeners together from all over the world, to share their trials and successes as well as learn from the thousands and thousands of garden articles by writers from all over the world. They can find out what is happening in the Events area, and if they need a garden club or supplier, they will find it. The tours only site brings gardeners together to share in the joy of seeing how others garden and to go home with both great memories and new found friends.
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