Meet the Speakers
Jeanette Stehr-Green
Jeanette Stehr-Green has gardened on the east coast, the west coast, and many points in between. Jeanette joined Clallam County Master Gardeners in 2003 and enjoys teaching others about gardening. She is a popular speaker and frequent contributor to local newspaper columns and the biweekly KSQM Garden Show. Stehr-Green attained the Lifetime Achievement status with Clallam County Master Gardeners in 2010 and was the 2012 Clallam County Master Gardener of the Year. She received the WSU Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.
Stehr-Green loves growing, eating, and teaching others about growing berries of all kinds. She likes to solve gardening problems but continues to be challenged by growing tomatoes in her home garden that sits at over 800 feet elevation and is routinely ravaged by deer.
Judy English
Prior to leaving home for college, Judy English helped her father on their central Illinois farm. She has had her hands in the dirt ever since. English joined Clallam County Master Gardeners in 2005 after a long career in financial management. She is a popular speaker, writer, and educator on a variety of gardening topics. English contributes to local newspaper garden columns and the live KONP Garden Show with Todd Ortloff. English was awarded the Lifetime Achievement status with Clallam County Master Gardeners in 2014.
English’s gardening interests include experimentation with plant varieties, “garden to table” vegetable gardening, and accent planting for interest. She has been dubbed the Tomato Queen by her fellow Master Gardeners. Her challenge on the North Olympic Peninsula has been to produce heritage tomatoes in her hillside garden in Sequim, regardless of the fickle weather.
Keith Dekker
Keith Dekker has been involved in horticulture for over 47 years. For the last 32 years his career has focused on the comprehensive care of residential landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. As a Clallam County Master Gardener and active volunteer with PlantAmnesty, Keith contributes to his community by teaching classes and giving talks to promote best practices for successful, sustainable gardening. Keith lives on the Olympic Peninsula with his wife, and Arlo the wonder dog.
Margery Whites
Margery Whites will focus on identifying factors important for selecting the right plant for the right place in your yard, planning your garden and landscape here in the North Olympic Peninsula and being able to effectively problem-solve gardening challenges.
Margery moved here from Minnesota in 2015 and quickly found the climates were very different. She became a Master Gardener in 2016 to get acquainted with gardening issues.
Lissy Moriarty
Lissy Moriarty was born and raised in Joyce, WA, and lived and educated around the world. Lissy is a landscape designer finding inspiration from exploring the natural environment and observing the nuances of nature along the way. Lissy graduated from California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, CA, with a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture and from Writtle University College in Essex, UK, with a Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture. Over the past ten years, Lissy has worked in New Zealand, Australia and in the Pacific Northwest leading crews to maintain and install gardens. After growing her design skills in England, she established her own design company back on the Olympic Peninsula with the desire to share her passion of gardening and orchestrate spaces for those that wish to gather, celebrate, and cherish the landscapes around them.”
Sue Goetz
FEATUED SPEAKER
Sue Goetz, CPH, ecoPRO, is an award-winning garden designer, writer, and speaker.
Through her business, Creative Gardener, she works with clients to personalize outdoor spaces, from garden coaching to complete landscape design. Her garden design work has earned gold medals at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival and specialty awards, including the Sunset magazine, the Fine Gardening magazine, and The American Horticultural Society Awards.
Writing and speaking are other ways Sue shares her love for the garden by offering seminars and handson workshops. A published author, Sue shares her passion for herb gardens with her books The Complete Container Herb Gardening, A Taste for Herbs, and The Herb-Lover’s Spa Book. For more info click here.