Grass ecologist/Landscape designer, Greenlee & Associates, Brisbane, California greenleeandassociates.com
Over the course of thirty years, John Greenlee has created grass ecologies overseas and in some of the country’s most famous public and private gardens, among them Los Angeles’ Norton Simon, the Getty Museum, Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, and the San Diego Zoo. He has advised top landscape architects and designed private gardens for Hollywood glitterati such as Diane Keaton, Ed Harris, Tea Leoni, and Steven Spielberg.
From 1985 to 2010, Greenlee operated the oldest specialty grass nursery on the West Coast. Today, besides designing green landscapes, he addresses audiences nationwide on the need to transform lawns from staid, wasteful monocultures to sustainable, lively meadow gardens. His movement to reinvent our turf-lawn culture has grabbed headlines in The New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Architectural Digest, and Sunset. Greenlee is the author of The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses and The American Meadow Garden.