Greg Rubin, owner of California’s Own Native Landscape Design, has been working with native plants for more than twenty years. He left a successful career as an engineer, in favor of creating native gardens for the San Diego area, and lectures regularly on his favorite native plants.
Judy M Horton has been designing gardens for fifteen years. An avid gardener, she has been involved with the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program since 2000. A board member of the California Garden and Landscape History Society and the Los Angeles Arboretum Foundation, she has recently begun to focus on garden and landscape preservation issues in the Los Angeles area.
Don Schultz is horticulture manager for the Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca College in El Cajon, California. He also teaches classes on irrigation and gardening topics both to homeowners and landscape professionals. In his spare time he enjoys hiking and camping, particularly in Southern California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and Joshua Tree National Park.
Susan Bouchez is an artist and designer who gardens in Los Altos, California and Savoie, France. She has been an active UCCE Master Gardener volunteer in the Santa Clara Valley chapter since 1999.
Saul Wiseman, president of the Perennial Plant Club of Sacramento, writes a weekly gardening column for the Auburn Journal/Roseville Press Tribune in Placer County. He is the Sacramento regional representative for The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program.
Ellen Hoffs, for most of her life, was a journalist who gardened. She competed a horticulture program and became a gardener who wrote for publications such as, Horticulture magazine and the Los Angeles Times. She is currently Assistant Editor and Director of Marketing, Marymount Institute Press and Tsehai Publishers, Loyola Marymount University.
Craig Latker attended the University of California at Davis and Berkeley, receiving a degree in Landscape Architecture from Berkeley in 1983. He has over 20 years experience working as a landscape designer.
He has worked at a large interior landscape installation company and a boutique landscape design firm specializing in large estates and country homes. Seven years ago he founded Latker Design Solutions, where he specializes in residential projects of varying size. Craig has expertise in a wide range of design styles — from classic Provencal and English cottage, to mid-century modern, to ultra contemporary.
Craig is also a professional illustrator and designer, and has done work for non-profit organizations and publications such as Pacific Horticulture, the Nature Conservancy, Strybing Arboretum, and the University of California at Davis.
Robert D Raabe is Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology at University of California, Berkeley. He introduced a faster method of composting was commonly known as the “Berkeley method” or “fast composting”, this method produces finished compost in as little as 14 to 21 days. He is also the author of The Ortho Home Gardener’s Problem Solver.
Demitra Bowles Lathrop holds a degree in English literature from University of California at Berkeley. She has served as editor and contributor to various arts, design, and literary publications. She lives and gardens in San Francisco, where she is active with a number of philanthropic groups.
