She taught and coordinated the Montana Master Gardener program for five years and co-authored its handbook. She has published numerous works alone and with her late husband, Dr. Robert Gough known as "Dr. Bob", including six gardening books. She has ghost-written for several on-line gardening advice sites, and has written for Montana Magazine, Fine Gardening, American Nurseryman, Zone 4 Magazine (now Rocky Mountain Gardening Magazine) and she hosts “Northern Gardening Tips,” which is broadcast by radio stations throughout Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas on the Northern News Network.