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Rizaniño ‘Riz’ Reyes Owner, RHR Horticulture & Landwave Gardens
Riz’s early curiosity about fruits and flowers turned a young boy from the Philippines into an award-winning garden designer and avid Pacific Northwest plantsman.
Immigrating to the US, he was exposed to an environment that unveiled an overwhelming diversity of plants. He felt compelled to study and grow those plants on his own so he started a small specialty nursery, got involved with various horticultural organizations around the country and earned BS degree in environmental horticulture from the University of Washington.
Riz worked at the UW Botanic Garden’s Center for Urban Horticulture for eight years. Now he is a garden manager for the brew pub and hospitality chain, McMenamin’s, at their new property in Bothell, WA. He also maintains his own horticultural enterprise called RHR Horticulture which designs and installs landscapes and floral designs for events and private clients. Riz also teaches and lectures for various garden organizations and publications.
Rizaniño “Riz” Reyes
Address: PO Box 77086, Seattle, WA 9817
Email: riz@rhrhorticulture.com
Website: rhrhorticulture.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/landwave
Instagram: rhrhorticulture
Twitter Handle: rhrhorticulture
YouTube: youtube.com/user/RHRHorticulture
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Dana Kelley Bressette
is the Plant Production Manager at Woodbrook Native Plant Nursery in Gig Harbor. She has a bachelor’s degree in Ornamental Horticulture from Washington State University and a master’s degree in Urban Horticulture from the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture. For her master’s thesis she studied the Possible Causes of Decline for the Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii).
She has written several articles on “Green” gardening and on Native Plants. Most of her writing can be found on her websites: http://habitathorticulturepnw.com/ –A Guide to Ecologically-friendly Landscape Gardening and http://nativeplantspnw.com/ –An Encyclopedia of the Cultural and Natural History of Native Plants
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Joshua Chenoweth
is the restoration botanist for Olympic National Park. His primary responsibility is to lead the revegetation of the newly exposed lake beds after the removal of two dams on the Elwha River, the second largest restoration project ever attempted by the National Park Service. Joshua’s passion for plant ecology and restoration began in New York City, where he obtained a certificate in horticulture from Brooklyn Botanical Garden. His interest in botany, soil science, and plant identification inspired him in 2001 to leave a successful career in television, sell his house in Brooklyn and move to the Pacific Northwest to volunteer for Olympic National Park restoring subalpine plant communities. After a year as a volunteer which included surveying spotted owl populations and setting up remote cameras to assess small carnivore populations, Olympic National Park hired Joshua as a biological science technician in 2002. From 2003-2004, Joshua was the first botanist to officially survey the flora of remote coastal wetlands in Olympic National Park. From 2005-2006, he supervised field crews tasked with mapping the vegetation throughout Olympic National Park, contributing to the Vegetation Classification of Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic National Parks.
Joshua received his M.S. in Restoration Ecology from the University of Washington in 2007. That same year, he began writing the Revegetation and Restoration Plan for Lake Mills and Lake Aldwell, a key component in the Elwha River Ecosystem Restoration Project. The restoration plan is a comprehensive effort to incorporate modern restoration ecology theories into restoration practice. Joshua hopes the experiences created by Elwha Restoration will improve our understanding of ecosystem response to disturbance and our ability to successfully implement restoration projects in the Pacific Northwest. Contact Joshua. [/popup]
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George Lasch
is a gardener at heart and loves to connect plants and people. Having gardened across the country and in England, he is well trained in the proper way to garden and knows when to do it his way!
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Janine Anderson
Port Townsend-based landscape designer Janine Anderson, CPH, speaks and writes about horticultural and landscape design topics and coordinates garden-related tours. She serves on the editorial board of the Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin and has written many articles for the Bulletin and other publications. Janine is active in numerous regional and national garden- and industry-related organizations and has traveled near and far to observe and celebrate our planet’s amazing diversity of plants and birds.
As a designer, Janine endeavors to create gardens that are both functional and beautiful and tries to balance her passion for clean, modern design with her commitment to habitat preservation and ecologically responsible practices. Her displays at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show have earned major awards, including the Founder’s Cup (“best in show”) and Sunset Western Living Award. Her landscape design company, Anderson LeLievre Landscape Design, serves homeowners and small businesses throughout Western Washington.
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Janet Aubin
has managed berry, produce, poultry and pig production at Finnriver Farm since 2008 with her partner Jeff Horwath. Janet grew up in Jefferson County and appreciates the challenges of our unique climate on the Peninsula. She studied Ecology and Environmental Science in Minnesota before returning to farm in the Chimacum Valley, and is passionate about finding a balance between wild and working lands.
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