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 Group’s garden book publishing imprint, Cool Springs Press. Jessica is a two-time winner of the prestigious American Horticultural Society Book Award.
Past Fellow Inductees
| Fellow | Year Honored |
| Andrea Whitely | 2024 |
| Charlie Nardozzi | 2024 |
| Mary Kate Mackey | 2023 |
| Nan Sterman | 2023 |
| Sally Cunningham | 2022 |
| Bill Johnson | 2022 |
| Maree Gaetani | 2021 |
| Carol Michel | 2021 |
| Mary B. Good | 2020 |
| Ellen Zachos | 2020 |
| Lois de Vries | 2019 |
| Pat Stone | 2019 |
| Dan Benarcik | 2018 |
| Peggy Ann Montgomery | 2018 |
| Betty Mackey | 2018 |
| Daniel Gasteiger | 2017 |
| Deb Wiley | 2017 |
| Renee Shepherd | 2016 |
| Jan Riggenbach | 2015 |
| Denny Schrock | 2015 |
| C.L. Fornari Stephanie Cohen |
2014 2014 |
| Felder Rushing | 2013 |
| Saxon Holt | 2012 |
| Anne Marie Van Nest | 2012 |
| Bob Tanem | 2011 |
| Richard Tracy | 2011 |
| Cathy Wilkinson Barash | 2010 |
| R. William Thomas | 2010 |
| Nona Wolfman Koivula | 2009 |
| David Ellis | 2008 |
| Marty Ross | 2008 |
| William Aldrich | 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 Powell | 2003 |
| Frederick E. Roberts | 2003 |
| Brian Minter | 2002 |
| Douglas Jimerson | 2001 |
| Barbara Lawton | 2001 |
| Ken Druse | 2000 |
| Barbara Emerson | 1990 |
| David Tarrant | 2000 |
| Rosalind Creasy | 1999 |
| Jacqueline Hériteau | 1999 |
| Jeff Lowenfels | 1998 |
| Walter Chandoha | 1997 |
| Frances Tenenbaum | 1997 |
| Jean Byrne | 1996 |
| Larry & Anstace Esmonde-White | 1995 |
| Ed Hume | 1995 |
| Michael D. Smith | 1993 |
| Jane Price McKinnon | 1992 |
| Virginia Lewis Beatty | 1991 |
| Wil Jung | 1991 |
| Russell Morash | 1990 |
| George Elbert | 1989 |
| Theodore R. Marston | 1989 |
| George W. Waters | 1989 |
| Maggie Baylis | 1988 |
| Irma Bartell Dugan | 1988 |
| Joseph E. Howland | 1988 |
| James W. Wilson | 1988 |
| John E. Bryan | 1987 |
| Derek Fell | 1987 |
| Jane Pepper | 1987 |
| F. Gordon Foster | 1986 |
| Fred C. Galle | 1986 |
| Corinne W. Willard | 1986 |
| Lorraine M. Burgess | 1985 |
| Dr. Ray C. Allen | 1985 |
| Jeannette Lowe | 1985 |
| Everitt L. Miller | 1985 |
| Alice Upham Smith | 1984 |
| Wilbur Youngman | 1984 |
| M.C. "Lee" Goldman | 1983 |
| Elvin McDonald | 1983 |
| Frederick McGourty | 1983 |
| Paul F. Frese | 1982 |
| Clarence E. Lewis | 1982 |
| George W. Taloumis | 1982 |
| John E. Bradshaw | 1981 |
| John Burton Brimer | 1981 |
| Robert A. Nicholson | 1981 |
| G. "Doc" & Katy Abraham | 1979 |
| Alice W. Burlingame | 1979 |
| Roy Hay | 1979 |
| Margaret Herbst | 1979 |
| Dr. R. Miltion Carlton | 1977 |
| Gretchen Harshbarger | 1977 |
| Gordon B. Lloyd | 1977 |
| C. Gordon Milne | 1977 |
| Albert Wilson | 1977 |