Kathy Jentz

If you haven’t met Kathy Jentz yet, you need to get out more! Kathy does just about everything when it comes to communicating about horticulture and does it very well.

She is the recent awardee of TWO 2023 Gold Media awards - for her GardenDC Podcast series and her live presentation about deer and garden mammals.

A GardenComm member since 2006, she lives in Maryland (region 2) and creates content about small-space gardening, urban/city gardening, and groundcovers in her region.

Kathy just developed a new talk on "Elevating Your Garden with Unusual Bulbs, Rhizomes, and Tubers" to share her love of lesser-known bulbs that do well in the mid-Atlantic throughout the calendar year. She loves forcing bulbs and teaches that method during the new program.

The networking and connections are the main reasons why Kathy is a member. “Thanks to GardenComm,” she says, “I have two new books published, an endless source of podcast guests, and colleagues to bounce ideas off of in the power circles.”

Where does Kathy get her inspiration for all of this content? She says she is inspired by “speakers who are able to connect emotionally with their audiences like C.L. Fornari.”

You can find Kathy’s podcast at: GardenDC: The Podcast about Mid-Atlantic Gardening - 10 Best Episodes (goodpods.com) and her magazine, Washington Gardener can be found here: https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com – take a look at her recent blog post, she’s organizing a trip to the Netherlands in April of 2024! You could be visiting the Floriade Expo 2024, Keukenhof Gardens, the Aalsmeer Flower Auction and more with Kathy next spring!