Avid gardeners, designers, speakers & writers

Jana Milbocker, Principal, Lecturer, & Author

Jana Milbocker is the principal of Enchanted Gardens, a lecturer and author. She combines horticulture, design, and travel tips to educate, inspire and delight both new and seasoned gardeners. Jana loves to visit gardens and historic sites in the U.S. and abroad, and share her trips through her books, photos and blog. She has written four garden travel guides: The Garden Tourist: 120 Destination Gardens and Nurseries in the Northeast, The Garden Tourist’s New England, The Garden Tourist’s Florida, and The Garden Tourist’s Mid-Atlantic. She also organizes and hosts group garden tours in the US and abroad.

The 2-acre garden surrounding her Victorian home features more than 140 varieties of trees and shrubs, perennial gardens, peony and rose beds, water features and shady retreats.

Trained as a graphic designer, Jana brings years of critical design thinking, clarity and cohesiveness to her landscape solutions. Her professional experience includes twenty five years as an art director and designer. Jana holds a BFA from Syracuse University, an MBA from Boston College, and coursework in horticulture and landscape design.

Joan Butler, Lecturer

Joan Butler, lecturer,  has been an enthusiastic gardener for over 30 years, and believes gardens should invite you to linger in the world outside your door. Her gardens have been included on several garden tours, and feature exciting plant combinations, dramatic horticultural specimens, and collections of hosta, heuchera and epimedium. 

Joan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Certificate in Landscape Management from UMass Extension Green School. She is a Master Gardener, has worked as a horticulturist at Weston Nurseries, and is a past Chairman of the Massachusetts Landscape Design Council. She is also a member of the Garden Consultants Council and an accredited Flower Show Judge.

AFFILIATIONS

Holliston Garden Club (past presidents), American Horticultural Society, American Public Gardens Association, Massachusetts Landscape Design Council, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Worcester Horticultural Society, The Garden Conservancy, Garden Club Federation of Mass., Massachusetts Judges Council, Massachusetts Garden Study Council, New England Hosta Society, American Hosta Society, Rhododendron Society (MA), Massachusetts Master Gardeners, Trustees of Reservations, GardenComm