Your Next Horticulture or Gardening Event Deserves More than Just a Speaker..
You Need an Entertaining Educator!

Introducing...

Holly Rose Mawby
gardendwellers FARM
 

Testimonials:  
"Thank you so much for presenting at our workshop.  We had many great comments on both of the topics.  You received compliments galore on our evaluation sheets."

Dorothy Nelson
Treasurer, Pennington County Master Gardeners


“Holly Mawby is a WONDERFUL teacher.  She is a fun and enthusiastic teacher who didn’t mind answering our questions”

Participant, MHA presentation

“A person has confidence in Holly’s teaching because we know she does it herself - not just textbook study”

Participant, Organic Gardening presentation

“The classes I have been to have been very helpful.  I’m glad she has given us tips and ideas that can be used in any garden”

Participant in a series of gardening workshops

"Your class is so informative, I could take it again and again.  In fact, I have taken it twice!"

Maxine Fagerland, participant in a WomanSong class 2012.

“Guest speaker Holly Mawby, gardendwellers Farm, was back by popular request.  Having appeared on stage in a grass skirt in Neepawa, Holly’s arrival was eagerly anticipated by those who remembered that event.  She did not disappoint.  Her Japanese arrangement hairdo was a creative coup".

Manitoba Horticultural Association – 2008 Annual Convention, Brandon, Manitoba
 
"Holly’s presentation, Gardening Around Your Abilities, was timely for those of us who are beginning to experience back twinges or locking knees while labouring in our gardens.  Holly’s review of tool adaptations and common sense advice (Take plenty of rests in the shade!) should certainly help us enjoy gardening for many more years. Her second talk, Colourful Flower Beds, focused on the colour wheel and its usefulness to the garden designer.  She explained the different colour schemes and illustrated how they could be used to create desired effects in the garden.  She cleverly proved that if you really want your yellow marigold bed to be purple, stare at it fixedly and it will transform!” 
   
Manitoba Horticultural Association – 2005 Annual Convention, Neepawa, Manitoba    

“Feature speaker Holly Mawby, gardendwellers Farm,  is an educator by profession and highly skilled at it.  Jokes and banter kept the audience's attention while she delivered a wealth of information in three very organized presentations.  Her message in Planning and Planting a Child's Garden was to let go of convention and look at gardening from a kid's perspective.  In Gardening in Small Spaces she illustrated square foot gardening, container gardens, hanging gardens, going up instead of going out, and use of colour to give the illusion of more space.  Her Landscaping lecture covered all the tenets of home landscape design.”

Please email or call 701-351-2520 to discuss prices and topics available.

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Areas of Expertise

Growing & using culinary & tea herbs

Color use in garden and landscape

Home landscaping

Using art in the garden

Gardening for people of all abilities, adaptive tools, and therapy gardens

WWII Victory Gardens

Perennials for northern gardens

Labyrinths in the landscape

Annual & perennial selection

Other topics as requested

Presentations that are Educational, Entertaining, and Enthusiastic

Connie Laugerquist of the International Peace Gardens and Holly show off their enthusiasm for the 'Tropical Paradise' theme at the 2006 Manitoba Horticultural Association Conference in Neepawa MB Canada. Holly sports a living grass skirt she and Barry grew for the occasion.

Qualifications

Native North Dakotan

36 years’ experience in the field of Horticulture in North Dakota and Minnesota

Over 30 years’ experience as a speaker, presenter, and garden writer

Horticulture Teacher in southern Minnesota for 7 years

Bachelor’s degree in Business and Industry Education specializing in adult learning

A.A.S. degree from the University of Minnesota in General Horticulture with an emphasis in Landscape Design

Co-owner and Caretaker of gardendwellers FARM,

Editor for the North Dakota State Horticultural Society quarterly newsletter and Past President of the Society

Director of the Entrepreneurial Center for Horticulture at Dakota College in Bottineau, ND

Previous Clients and Engagements

Pennington County Master Gardeners
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North Dakota Long Term Care Association

Grand Forks County NDSU and Grand Forks Gardening Saturday

Manitoba Orchid Society

Wahpeton Breckenridge Chamber of Commerce and Pretty Bloomers Garden Club

Bismarck Mandan Garden Club

Manitoba Horticulture Association

​Brandon Manitoba Gardening Club

NDSU Extension Grand Forks County& Horticulture Society

Hannah Greenhouse

NDSU Extension Towner County

Lake Region State College Continuing Education

Feature articles for www.northscaping.com

Contributing author for the 2006 and 2007 Prairie Garden books

Regional newspapers, garden clubs, and home-makers groups