Andrea Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the author of the New York Times best selling book the Founding Gardeners as well as The Brother Gardeners (long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2008 and winner of the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award). She co-authored (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History. Ms. Wulf has written for The Sunday Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Garden and regularly reviews for several newspapers, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian and the New York Times. She lives in London. David Howard is a Horticultural Consultant with a specialization in Organic Gardening. He has been gardening for over 40 years, having grown his first tomato plant at the age of six. He served as Head Gardener at Highgrove House, Gloucestershire, where he gardened for Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall for ten and a half years. He is a graduate of the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh and has also worked in the Botanic Gardens, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has collected plants in the Himalayan Mountains, worked in commercial horticulture, has been a one man design/build team and worked for Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle as a student gardener. Since leaving Highgrove House in 2008, he has worked in Japan as a Horticultural Consultant for The Barakura English Garden and in the USA as a Horticultural Consultant for Bartram’s Gardens in Philadelphia.
Bill Thomas is the Executive Director of the Chanticleer Foundation. He arrived at Chanticleer, a 37 acre pleasure garden outside of Philadelphia, on April Fool’s Day, 2003. Prior to this, he was at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA for 26 years where he worked in Research and Production for the last five years and Education for the prior 21 years. Mr. Thomas leads the talented and creative Chanticleer staff in the continued development of this young garden. He emphasizes an environmentally sensitive and multi-century approach to the property and is unifying the former estate into one cohesive garden. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has authored three books, numerous horticultural articles, is a professional botanical photographer, and has lectured widely throughout the United States.
Sean B. Hogan is the owner of Cistus Nursery. His interest in the nursery industry started at age 3 when he started rooting succulents and boxwood cuttings in his sandbox. He attended American River College and Sacramento State University studying horticulture and botany. His early work included mapping rare and endangered plants for the State of California as well as landscape and design work. During the mid 1980’s to mid 1990’s he served as the Curator of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, New Work Desert and the California Native Cultivar Gardens of the University of California, Berkeley Botanic Garden. In 1995 he relocated to the Portland area where his design and consultation firm evolved into the opening of Cistus Design and Nursery. Mr. Hogan has lectured extensively in North America and Europe. His writings and photographs can be found in a wide range of horticultural and botanical literature and magazines.
Andrea Sprott is the Lawrence Garden Associate at the Elizabeth Lawrence House and Garden of Wing Haven. She has enjoyed playing in the dirt since a very young age but credits her growth as a gardener to her husband. He taught her everything from trees to ground covers while they were dating. Weekend learning turned into total botanical submersion and late night reading went from fiction to horticulture encyclopedias. Ms. Sprott became a Master Gardener in 2003 and as part of her training became familiar with Wing Haven. She has volunteered at Wing Haven since 2005 and was hired in November of 2010 at the Elizabeth Lawrence House & Garden of Wing Haven as the Lawrence Garden Associate. Her responsibilities include maintaining the gardens, leading tours and managing the volunteers. She lectures frequently and writes for the Master Gardener newsletter.
Dr. Larry Mellichamp is a Professor of Botany at UNC Charlotte where he teaches courses in botany and horticulture and does research on Pitcher Plants and Southeastern endangered plant species. He is also the Director of the UNCC Botanical Garden. He writes and speaks on topics including pollination biology, bog gardening, the winter garden, native orchids, endangered plant species, native wildflowers and landscaping with native plants. He also happens to be one of the world’s experts on North American native pitcher plants. Dr. Mellichamp has traveled and collected plants in Mexico, Costa Rica, Borneo, Hawaii, South Africa, China and Australia. He has received two prestigious teaching awards and was the 2003 recipient of the Thomas Roland Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. He is the co-author of the textbook Practical Botany and the books The Winter Garden, Wildflowers of the Western Great Lakes Region, and Bizarre Botanicals.
Tiz Johnston is a horticulturalist, an avid gardener and plant enthusiast. She received a Bachelors Degree in Horticulture with a concentration in Landscape Design from North Carolina State University in 1988. She has been involved in the maintenance, installation and design aspects of the horticulture industry for more than 20 years. Her work with Landmasters Inc. involved the design and installation of the first gardens at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. After leaving Landmasters Inc., Ms. Johnston started Garden Design where she designed gardens and coordinated plant/color perennial installations for clients. She was then hired as the Head Gardener at Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens where she worked for two years. In 2003 she joined Bruce Clodfelter & Associates where she specializes in planting design and can take full advantage of her genuine love of plants.
