Dear Dustin,

We remember you as a kid working at Heard’s Gardens Nursery, spouting off fancy plant names and tracking down rare and unusual plants. Now you’re all grown up with a Bachelors of Science in Horticulture from California Polytechnic University in Pomona and a fancy Wisley Diploma in Practical Horticulture from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden in England. We wondered where you went….Heronswood, Greenlee’s grass nursery, the other side of the pond.

With a garden design business of your own now, Second Nature Garden Design it looks like from the gallery of gardens that you’ve designed, you are off to a spectacular start. Great plant combinations, love your minimalist mod stuff, and wondering about that big leaf plant in South Laguna. The big roundy one under the deck.

Keep in touch,
Us

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