Suzanne Ferris

Deodara-Arts

https://suzanneferris.wordpress.com/

Suzanne Ferris is a garden designer and a botanical illustrator who writes about horticulture. Her past includes a stint as an arts manager for the King County Solid Waste Division, a letterpress printer and hand papermaker for Sea Pen Press and Papermill, and a public artist on Waldron Island. Her botanical interests include conducting plant trials testing soils both native and manufactured. Her future may include designing a line of furniture for outdoor spaces for Newwood Corporation. Plan B is to open a private eating club that Falstaff might enjoy.

Suzanne received a Fine Arts degree from Madison, Wisconsin and attended horticulture classes at Edmonds Community College. She has tended a large garden in Seattle for thirty-six years and is currently writing a book about her garden mentors, including a chapter about Phil Wood, with whom she worked. Suzanne accepts commission work.


Christine Edstrom O’Hara

California Polytechnic State University

https://www.landscape.calpoly.edu/people/ohara.html

Christine Edstrom O’Hara is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.  She received her Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in English and Art History and Master’s degree from the University of Washington in Landscape Architecture and Preservation Planning.  In 2002, she received the Douglas Dockery Thomas Fellowship in Garden History studying the regional design of Palos Verdes Estates and Balboa Park.  Prof. O’Hara has lectured and published both nationally and internationally on landscape preservation as well as its application to sustainable landscape design and construction.  Her current research focuses on the California work of the Olmsted firm, especially the Olmsted Brothers, and their approach to regionalism.

In addition to teaching, Ms. O’Hara practices landscape architecture and historic landscape restoration.  She is a principal of m + o landscape architecture which concentrates on contemporary design in sustainable and green infrastructure solutions.  This practice also includes the specialty niche of consulting on the restoration and preservation of historic landscapes by writing National Register Nominations and Cultural Landscape Reports, as well as restoration and rehabilitation plans for such projects as Rancho Los Alamitos (Long Beach, CA), Mountain View Cemetery (Piedmont, CA), Malaga Cove Garden (Palos Verdes Estates, CA), Righetti House (San Luis Obispo), and Hollywood Bungalow Courtyards (North Hollywood, CA).   Ms. O’Hara is on the board of the California Garden and Landscape History and is a trustee for the National Association of Olmsted Parks.   She views history and contemporary design as companion ideas where history provides the framework for understanding the direction of the field of landscape architecture.


Janet Enright

JE Landscape Design

https://www.jelandscapedesign.com/

Janet Enright, Principal and founder of Janet Enright & Associates, has been designing landscapes since 1985.   She provides landscape design and consultation services across the San Francisco Bay Area, using principles and practices that promote sustainable gardens that thrive in our Mediterranean climate.

Along the way, she’s studied with John Brookes at La Napoule Foundation in France, at UC Berkeley Extension Landscape Architecture Program, at Foothill Community College Environmental Horticulture and Design Program … and generally enjoys messing around in dirt.  Her diverse work experience includes driving a lift truck at her Dad’s lumber yard in high school, owning a floral design business, being an educator, and teaching at Santa Clara University.

Landscape design became Janet’s primary focus in 2005.  In her prior career in education, she was a School Principal at Juvenile Hall – not exactly what most people would consider likely experience for a landscape designer.  Think again – they both require the ability to see the larger picture and make sense of it, to understand the needs of the client and offer solutions they can embrace, and to have a well-grounded working knowledge of how to get them where they need and want to be – whether it’s in school (and out of jail) or in their garden.

Growing up, she was privileged to spend time on her family’s property adjacent to Big Basin Park – a wondrous education in the wild.  Throw in years of honing an artistic aesthetic through sculpture, painting and collage, and it all coalesces.

Janet is a Bay Friendly Qualified Landscape Professional, and 2011 Past President of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, California Chapter.


Jeff Rosendale

Sierra Azul Nursery and Gardens

https://www.sierraazul.com/

Jeff Rosendale and his wife Lisa own Sierra Azul Nursery and Gardens in Watsonville, California. He has been part of the world of horticulture in the Bay Area and Central Coast for the past 40 years as a garden designer and nursery manager/owner specializing in Mediterranean climate and other appropriate plants for water-conserving gardens and landscapes.

Sierra Azul Nursery and Gardens is located in the Pajaro Valley, at the edge of Watsonville, adjacent to the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The winter weather is mild and summer is tempered by frequent fogs from Monterey Bay. The Pajaro Valley is known for its favorable agricultural and horticultural climate and is home to many nurseries and farms.Online at sierraazul.com and on Facebook.


Kristin Yanker-Hansen

Kristin Yanker-Hansen is a garden designer, past president of the California Horticultural Society, and a current member of the board of directors for The Ruth Bancroft Garden. Kristin gardens in Danville, California where she delights in growing almost any type of flowering plants, especially those in the mallow family.


Lucy Tolmach

Lucy Tolmach worked at Filoli for 35 years beginning as a gardener in the walled garden before moving on to director of horticulture. She and her husband, Jonathan, have recently relocated to their family’s land in Ojai, California. In addition to planting a large fruit and vegetable garden and caring for the land, they’re excited by the opportunity to bake bread, keep chickens, ducks, pigeons, doves and possibly peacocks, and work in the family winery.  Lucy plans to turn her attention to designing gardens and planting daffodils.


Ann Northrup

Ann Northrup spent her undergraduate years at the University of Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in microbiology. Her interest in plant pathology started there, but she took a five-year diversion to work in the field of medical diagnostics at Bio Rad Labs in Richmond, California, and another two years as a molecular biology research assistant at UC Irvine. Returning to plant pathology, Ann earned a master’s degree UC Berkeley. She has worked primarily in disease diagnostics of ornamental plants, first with Soil and Plant Lab in Orange, California, and then with Nurserymen’s Exchange in Half Moon Bay.

Ann currently consults privately in plant pathology and arboriculture and teaches horticulture classes at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills and Merritt College in Oakland. One of her professional pleasures is volunteering at the Sick Plant Clinic. She is also an active volunteer in the UCCE Master Gardener program for Santa Clara County. In her spare time, she enjoys playing her flute in a woodwind quintet in Saratoga and with the Saratoga Community Band conducted by her husband. And of course … she gardens.


Paul Bonine

Xera Plants

https://xeraplants.com/Xera/Xera_Plants.com.html

Paul Bonine is a garden writer, lecturer, and owner of the wholesale specialty plant nursery Xera Plants, in Portland, Oregon.  A lifelong plant man, Paul has worked in the nursery industry for nearly twenty years and consulted for NPR, the Sunset Western Garden Book, and The Oregonian. He is the author of Black Plants: 75 Striking Choices for the Garden (Timber Press, 2009).

Paul lectures on low-water gardening, unusual vines, and deer-resistant gardening. He lives in Portland, where he tests and selects new and useful plants for Pacific Northwest gardens.


Matt Ritter

Matt Ritter is a professor in the Biology Department and director of the Plant Conservatory at California Polytechnic University, San Louis Obispo. “I want to help people know the trees in their city. Not just see them as green blobs,” says this disciple of street tree diversity. Ritter is the author of A Californian’s Guide to the Trees Among Us (Heyday Books, 2011) and The Plants of San Louis Obispo, Their Lives and Stories (Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2008).  He is the chair of the City of San Luis Obispo Tree Committee, and editor-in-chief of Madroño, the journal of the California Botanical Society.

 


Lorene Edwards Forkner

Lorene Edwards Forkner lives and gardens in Seattle where she pursues a good and delicious life filled with family and friends together with all things horticultural, believing that the really good part is in the blending of one’s passions.

Lorene is the author of five garden books including Hortus Miscellaneous (Sasquatch Books), Handmade Garden Projects, and The Timber Press Guide Vegetable Gardening: Pacific Northwest. Lorene is also the author of the newly released “Color In and Out of the Garden,” Abrams Books, 2022. Follow along at ahandmadegarden.com. She was the editor of Pacific Horticulture from 2012-2019.


Daniel Mount

https://www.mountgardens.com

Daniel Mount hails from a long line of wandering gardeners, nurserymen and farmers.  He received his first shovel for his second birthday and began his gardening career in the sand box later that afternoon. Spending most of his youthful summers in a vegetable patch, on a farm, in parks, or in the woods, the curiosity of a scientist and the soul of a poet were awakened in him. Daniel went on to study fine arts and botany at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, from which he received a BS in Botany.

Drawn to the legendary gardening climate of the Pacific Northwest, Daniel moved to Seattle, Washington in 1988. Since that time he has created, maintained and consulted on gardens primarily in the Puget Sound Basin. The skills he acquired working in the passionate gardening environment of  Pacific Northwest have opened many doors. Daniel was invited to Cologne, Germany, where he worked on urban rooftop and courtyard gardens as well as rural estates. He was next called to Orto dei Semplici Elbano on the Island of Elba, Italy where he collected and designed with the unique flora of this island.  He maintains an ancillary connection to this garden to this day. Closer to home he has consulted on projects and designed gardens in and around Durham, North Carolina; Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Phoenix, Arizona.

Daniel has settled on a small farm nestled in a 150-acre bird sanctuary, which he shares with his partner, innumerable slugs and a bear, in the Snoqualmie River Valley east of Seattle. He enjoys growing organic vegetables and fruits, raising ducks and experimenting with flood tolerant plants. He creates gardens and also teaches and writes about plants and gardening.

www.mountgardens.com


Frederique Lavoipierre

Frederique Lavoipierre is the creator and author of “Garden Allies,” a series that ran for 10 years in Pacific Horticulture magazine. She also teaches classes and workshops on sustainable landscaping, including ecological principles, habitat gardens, beneficial insects, soil ecology, freshwater ecology, and aquatic invertebrates. Follow her on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/Garden.Allies.