Hi, I’m Logan

For as long as I can remember, I have always been outside. I grew up in rural Oklahoma, where two large biomes collide: Oak-Hickory forest meets the Tall Grass Prairie. The thing to do was flower gardening with my sweet nana, Rosalie, and from there I was immediately captivated by the living, breathing, mystifying planet we call home. My vivid childhood memories watching thousands of monarchs fly overhead during their annual migration and catching hundreds of lighting bugs in glass jars has kept me aspirational and motivated as I continue to fight for our Earth.

I went to school at Oklahoma State University where the only thing I could be bothered to learn more about was nature. I graduated with a BS in Public Horticulture and immediately began my very explorative and non-linear journey of a professional horticulturist.

My passion has lead me from the rural prairies of Oklahoma to Longwood Gardens, where I learned what the magical world of ornamental horticulture is really capable of creating. Then to the UK, where I worked at four National Trust gardens, learning garden history and influential English gardening styles. Then eventually to Japan, where I sunk into the importance of place within Japanese gardens, and how that connection can bring us back to ourselves.

Then most recently to New York City, right in the center of the harbor on Governors Island, where I was immersed into ecological restoration through horticultural practice. I was inspired and moved by the impact we as gardeners can have on our world and the people in it. Giving tours to New Yorkers, in a massive native plant park, talking about the importance of habitat and biodiversity in such a time as this, invigorated me. Managing monocultures of invasive plants and turning them into diverse, native meadows (shown in the picture on this page) gave me hope in the face of so much uncertainty.

Now, I find myself upstate, excited to bring this access to native plants and ecological knowledge to the Hudson Valley community. We do it because it matters, it makes a difference, and our mother Earth is calling us back to her.

Much love,

Logan