John Greenlee is the founder and president of Greenlee Nursery, Inc. in Chino, California, the West Coast’s
oldest and largest specialty ornamental grass nursery.
The author of The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses (Rodale Books, 1992), John is currently working on
Meadows by Design, which will be published in 2009.
Named the 2002 Horticulturist of the Year by the
Southern California Horticultural Society, John has
designed gardens and provided horticultural
consultation for such notable clients as the Getty
Center and the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, and movie director Steven Spielberg.

Panayoti Kelaidis is the director of outreach for the
Denver Botanic Gardens, where he has worked for
the past 28 years in numerous capacities, including
curator of plant collections. A strong advocate for the
use of native and drought tolerant plants and naturalistic design, Panayoti oversees Plant Select®, a plant
introduction program designed to develop plants
adapted to gardens in the Rocky Mountain region. He is the past president of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society and the American Penstemon Society and is a Member-at-Large of the Garden Club of America.

Robert Nold is the author of acclaimed books about penstemons and columbines (Timber Press, 1999 and 2003.) His most recent book, High and Dry: Gardening with Cold-Hardy Dryland Plants, is being released by Timber Press in May. A member of the Alpine Garden Society and the North American Rock Garden Society, Robert is a regular contributor to various gardening publications. Robert has received the North American Rock Garden Society’s Award for Service.

Janet Rademacher is the director of business development for Mountain States Wholesale Nursery in Utah, which specializes in desert-adapted plants for the Southwest. For the past 20 years she has helped landscape architects and designers develop an appreciation for the beauty and versatility of desert plants. Awarded the 2005 “Master of the Southwest” award from Phoenix Home & Garden magazine, Janet has also received the 2005 Arizona Landscape Contractors Association’s Outstanding Customer Service Award, and the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association Xeriscape Honor. Janet contributes articles to publications such as Sunset, Phoenix Home & Garden, and American Nurseryman.

David Salman is the president and chief horticulturist of the retail nursery Santa Fe Greenhouses in New Mexico and its mail-order division, High Country Gardens, which he founded in 1984 and 1992, respectively. Both businesses specialize in beautiful and drought-tolerant plants for western gardens. David has introduced more than 25 plant selections with an emphasis on native, cold-hardy, and xeric species. He also collaborates on regional plant evaluation programs such as Plant Select®, which promotes plants suited to the Rocky Mountain region. Widely regarded as a xeriscaping pioneer, David received the American Horticultural Society’s 2008 Paul Ecke Jr. Commercial Award.

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