Rebecca Sams and Buell Steelman met while both worked at Gardens in Austin, Texas. Now in Eugene, Oregon, they design and build cutting-edge gardens as Mosaic Gardens (www.mosaic-gardens.com).

David Ehrlinger has a background in botany from the University of Michigan. After several years as head of horticulture for the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, he moved to Southern California, where he has been director of horticulture at the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas since 2002. He resides in nearby Carlsbad with his wife Claire.

Shirley Watts is principal of sawattsdesign, an award winning design/build firm that works in gardens all over the Bay Area.

David Fross is one of Southern California’s most highly respected native plant specialists and co-author with Bart O’Brien and Carol Bornstein of California Native Plants for the Garden (Cachuma Press, 2006).  David is the owner of Native Sons Wholesale Nursery in Arroyo Grande.