Veronica has been gardening for as long as she can remember. When other kids were reading comics, she was reading the Stokes Seed Catalog. In the past 25 years Veronica has written hundreds of articles about  gardening for magazines and newspapers. Her regular column 'In the Garden' is enjoyed by readers in the Durham Region, and 'The Garden Party' is read in the Toronto area.

She is an accomplished speaker and over the years has made presentations on gardening topics to a variety of groups including Horticultural societies and service clubs. She appears regularly as the garden expert on Roger's Cable TV program "Daytime".

Veronica is the Region 7 Director for the Garden Writers Association and a Past  President of the Brooklin Horticultural Society.