![Sarracenia cultivars at the Miller Garden](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Sarracenias-at-Miller-Garden.jpg)
Past Speakers
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2022
Rebecca McMackin, Horticulturist & Garden Designer; former Director of Horticulture at the Brooklyn Bridge Botanical Garden, 2010-2022
New Techniques in Ecological Horticulture: Beauty & Butterflies at Brooklyn Bridge Park
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2020
Dan Pearson, British Landscape Designer, Horticulturist, Writer, and Gardener:
Human | Nature : How Horticulture & Design Can Re-engage Us with the Natural World
![Dr Peter Zale](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Dr-Peter-Zale.jpg)
2019
Dr. Peter Zale, Ph.D
Plant Exploration at Longwood Gardens: Past, Present, and Future
![Panayoti Kelaidis](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Panayoti-Kelaidis.jpg)
2018
Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and Director of Outreach at the Denver Botanic Gardens
From Denver to Seattle, A Shared Gardening Tradition
![Anna Pavord](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/anna-pavord.jpg)
2017
Anna Pavord, noted author and lecturer
Landskipping – A Celebration of our Landscape
![Ari Novy](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Ari-Novy.jpg)
2016
Dr. Ari Novy, Executive Director US Botanic Garden
A Fresh Approach to the Urban Landscape
![Helen Dillon](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/helen-dillon.jpg)
2015
Helen Dillon
The Evolution of an Irish Garden
![Valerie Easton](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Val-Easton.jpg)
![Daniel Hinkley](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Dan-Hinkley.jpg)
![Steve Lorton](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/steve-lorton.jpg)
2014
Valerie Easton, writer, author and former manager of the Elisabeth C. Miller Library; Daniel Hinkley, writer, lecturer, plant explorer and nurseryman; and Steve Lorton, writer, lecturer and former NW Bureau Chief of Sunset Magazine: A Tribute to Mrs. Miller and the Miller Legacy
![Tony Avent](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/tony-avent.jpg)
2013
Tony Avent, Plantsman, Horticulturalist and owner of Plant Delights Nursery
![Peter Raven](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Peter-Raven.jpg)
2012
Peter Raven, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden
![Lynden Miller](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Lynden-Miller.jpg)
2011
Lynden Miller
Parks, Plants, and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape
![Gordon Collier, photo by Dan Hinkley](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/gordon-collier-by-dan-hinkley.jpg)
2010
Gordon Collier
A Land Apart: New Zealand’s Remote Offshore Chatham Islands (Photo courtesy Dan Hinkley)
![Roy Lancaster](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Roy-Lancaster.jpg)
2009
Roy Lancaster
Mad About Plants — A Plantsman’s Garden
![Kathryn Gustafson](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Kathryn-Gustafson.jpg)
2008
Kathryn Gustafson
Landscape in a Changing Environment (Photo courtesy Charles Hopkinson)
![Graham Rankin](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Graham-Rankin.jpg)
![Peter Valder](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Peter-Valder.jpg)
2006
Peter Valder
The Romance of Chinese Garden Plants: Their Role in Art, Literature, Symbolism and Everyday Life
![Julie Moir Messervy](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/julie-moir-messervy.jpg)
2005
Julie Moir Messervy
Inspired by Bach: Creating the Toronto Music Garden with Yo-Yo Ma
![Roger Phillips](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Roger-Phillips.jpg)
2004
Roger Phillips
Adventures in Plants and Roses
![Frank Cabot](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/frank-cabot.jpg)
2003
Frank Cabot
The Maturing of a Garden
2002
Penelope Hobhouse
Nature and Art: Keeping the Balance
![Dan Hinkley, 2001](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dan-hinkley-2001.jpg)
![Ken Druse](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ken-druse.jpg)
1999
Daniel J. Hinkley
Endless Bounty: Plants for Northwest Gardens from Around the World
1998
Roy Lancaster
Travels of a Plantsman: An Account of Recent Travels in China, Japan and Chile
![Judith Tankard](https://millergarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/judith-tankard.jpg)
1997
Judith Tankard
Walking in the Bootsteps of Gertrude Jekyll: Her Influence on Beatrix Farrand and Ellen Shipman
1996
Jim Gardiner
A Year at the RHS Garden: Past, Present and Future
1995
Sir Ghillean Prance
Plant Diversity and Conservation from Brazil to Kew Gardens