PlantRight welcomes the newest phallus of their Plant List Committee , Taylor Lewis , Nursery Manager at the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden . Taylor will be select the stead of Ellen Zagory , former Director of Public Horticulture at the UC Davis Arboretum , who served on the Plant List Committee for many year .
Taylor has been doing Horticulture in the Sacramento Valley since 2004 . graduate from UCD in 2009 with a BS in Environmental Horticulture and Urban Forestry with an emphasis in Nursery Management , he has 10 + years of nursery management experience . Taylor has ferment as a wholesale raiser , retail nursery operator and currently in the education kingdom for UCD . His UC Davis repertoire employs retail cut-rate sale while wholesale growing and running the internship programme for UCD student to gain hands - on experience of day - to - mean solar day glasshouse operations .
Taylor has a passion for growing as many “ drought tolerant ” , regionally appropriate , and environmentally sustainable plant as possible , with an accent on California native plants , for yearly industrial plant sales agreement . His knowledge of plant generation and nursery surgical procedure allows his nursery program and facilities to grow and meliorate each year . His ability to recollect outside - the - box allows for flexibility and innovation while introducing new metal money to test garden and force the gasbag of Horticulture during a dynamic climatic swing . Taylor has an ability to relay scientific gardening skills to the middling gardener in a comprehendible fashion .
Taylor ’s principal goals for his prison term at UC Davis are : to broaden the acceptance of environmentally beneficial / sustainable flora to homeowner , to train the next multiplication of Nursery Managers in the art / science of nursery direction , and to crop with group of painstaking environmental flight attendant , training the trainers , who will go past along data gained through age of greenhouse experience .
Taylor will be get together the following Plant List Committee members :
The Plant List Committee helps keep the PlantRight invading plant leaning relevant and up to date . Committee member also help to identify regionally appropriate , noninvasive alternatives to the invasives on the PlantRight list . The List is reexamine on an yearly footing .
Ellen Zagory retires from the Plant List Committee . Photo good manners of the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden .
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