John Greenlee
Known as the “Grassman” in horticultural circles, John Greenlee is an internationally known horticulturist and landscape designer specializing in the cultivation and study of grasses and grasslike plants.
John Greenlee is founder of Greenlee Nursery in Pomona. California. Founded in 1985 it is the oldest and largest specialty ornamental grass nursery on the West Coast. His bestselling book, The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses (Rodale, 1992), is considered by many to be an indispensable reference. As an expert in grass ecology and champion of sustainable design, Greenlee has made meadows throughout the United States and all around the world, including the Getty Museum and the Norton Smith Museum in Los Angeles, the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, and the savannas at Walt Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, to private residencies in Morocco and Saudi Arabia. In October 2009 his second book, The American Meadow Garden (Timber Press, 2009) debuted at several internationally renowned botanical gardens, horticultural societies, and nurseries as well as at the ASLA Expo. Through popular demand, Greenlee lectures throughout the US and Canada on the use of natural lawns, native grasses and meadow restoration. A passionate advocate of ecologically sound gardens and lawns, Greenlee has appeared on HGTV’s “Way to Grow,” PBS’ “The New Garden,” and been featured in the New Yorker. His movement to reinvent America’s turf-lawn culture has grabbed headlines in major media sources such as The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Architectural Digest, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Press Democrat, Garden Design, The Los Angeles Times, and Sunset Magazine.
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