Liz Klose is the Superintendent of the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture, where she began as an instructor in 1991. Her teaching experience included plant identification, soils, plant health care, plant propagation, and fruit and vegetable culture. She was also Instructor/Curator of the Herb Garden, Vegetable Garden and the Rose Garden. In 2002 she was appointed as Superintendent of the School of Horticulture. Last year she was recognized for her years of dedication to the industry and horticultural education and received the Ontario College Horticulture Educator of the Year Award.

Liz and her husband Gerald also maintain a garden at their home in Niagara-on-the-Lake which has been featured on HGTV's Gardeners' Journal as well as in magazines and on several garden tours.

A 1982 graduate of the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Honours), Liz has worked in agriculture, public relations in the wine Industry and horticulture, before finding her passion in academic and practical horticultural education. She is a frequent speaker before garden clubs, plant societies, conferences and schools.

In 2003 she co-authored her first publication, Roses for Ontario, and in 2005, The Best Garden Plants for Ontario, a handy reference guide to help Ontario gardeners put plants with proven performance in the right place!