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Speakers
John Elsley
… extensive formal education in the United Kingdom
encompassed the practical and theoretical aspects of botany, as
well as the commercial and ornamental spheres of horticulture.
For more than 35 years he has built on this education in positions
with the Royal Horticultural Society, Missouri Botanical Garden,
Park Seed Co., Inc., and in his current position as director of
horticulture at Klehm’s Song Sparrow Farm and Nursery. At Song
Sparrow John is responsible for the selection of new products for
the wholesale and retail divisions, and assists Roy Klehm with
his internationally acclaimed breeding program. His one-acre
private garden in Greenwood, South Carolina has been featured
on HGTV’s A Gardener’s Diary and the NBC Today Show, and
is a favorite stop at the South Carolina Festival of Flowers every
June.
Linda Guy
… is the director of new product development at
Carolina Nurseries, a nursery committed to researching,
producing and distributing exceptional new plant products. At
Novalis, an organization that offers premium plant programs
and collections to independent garden centers, Linda procures
plants for a network of independent garden center owners,
coordinating the stock increase and helping to educate sales
teams about the new products.
Sean B. Hogan
…began his horticultural career mapping rare
and endangered plants for the State of California, and designing
landscapes, often revolving around his love of western natives.
He has also served as the curator of the South African, New
Zealand, Australian, New World Desert and the California
Native Cultivar Gardens of the University of California
Botanical Garden at Berkeley. In 1995, he and his partner,
Parker Sanderson, established their design and consultation
fi rm specializing in regionally appropriate plants for the Pacifi c
Northwest, and Cistus Design and Nursery is thriving today
on Sauvie Island outside Portland, Oregon. Sean edited the
20,000 plus entry Flora, published by Timber Press, and has
authored a book on broadleaved evergreen trees to be published
by Timber Press later this year.
Steve Jacobs
… has been involved with urban/public health
entomology for over 30 years. He has worked for the
Maryland Department of Agriculture as a pesticide regulatory
entomologist, owned a pest control company servicing the
metropolitan Washington, DC area, and has been the urban
extension entomologist for the Penn State Department of
entomology since 1988. In 1990 Steve received a cooperative
agreement from the Centers for Disease Control to survey the
ticks of Pennsylvania and to produce Lyme disease educational
materials for the healthcare community and the general public.
As an urban entomological consultant he has advised both US
and international corporations, and has provided technical
assistance to the US National Park Service at numerous parks,
including the Grand Canyon and the White House.
Roy Lancaster
Formerly the fi rst curator of the Hillier Arboretum in
Hampshire, UK, Roy Lancaster is now a patron there. Since
1980 he has been an internationally recognized freelance
plantsman, writer, author, lecturer and plant explorer. A vice
president of the Royal Horticultural Society, president of the
Hardy Plant Society, vice president of the National Council for
the conservation of plants and gardens, president of the Maple
Society, Roy has been honored with the Victoria Medal of
Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society, and is an Offi cer
of the British Empire for his service to horticulture.
Stephen Scanniello
… is best known as a hands-on gardener
who transformed the Cranford Rose Garden of the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden into one of the world’s most acclaimed rose
gardens. Since leaving the Cranford in 1998, Stephen devotes
his full attention to maintaining and designing private gardens
throughout the United States. He lectures, writes and serves as
a judge for international rose trials in Europe and the United
States. Stephen is an award winning author of books on roses,
and is president of the Heritage Rose Foundation and member
of numerous rose societies. He lives and gardens in Jersey City
and Barnegat, New Jersey.
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