Bonfils-Stanton: Speaker Profiles

Nan K. Chase

Nan K. Chase has been gardening for thirty years in western North Carolina, and now specializes in perennial ornamentals and in native Appalachian trees, shrubs and wildflowers, as well as fruit and vegetable crops. Her latest book, “Eat Your Yard! Edible Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbs and Flowers for Your Landscape,” was published in 2010 by Gibbs Smith. Freelance journalism credits include The New York Times, Washington Post, Southern Living and Smithsonian Magazine.

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David De Groot

David De Groot has been curator of Weyerhaeuser’s Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection since its creation in 1989. He is an award-winning designer and author who has been studying and practicing bonsai since 1972. He has studied bonsai in Japan with Yasuo Mitsuya, satsuki with Tatemori Gondo and Hayata Nakayama, and display with Uhaku Sudo. His educational journal articles have been published throughout the U.S. and in eight foreign countries, and his book, “Basic Bonsai Design,” is now in its sixth printing.

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Scott Dressel-Martin

Photographer Scott Dressel-Martin has photographed around the world, including Alaska, the Middle East, Mexico, Spain, Singapore and all around the U. S. Scott is based in Denver, Colorado. He began his career in newspaper photojournalism and has been published internationally. He is the official photographer of the Denver Botanic Gardens and also works with an exclusive clientele on commercial and corporate assignments.

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Diana Lee

Born in Shanghai, China, raised in Hong Kong, and educated in the United States, Diana Lee was trained as a petroleum geologist and mechanical engineer. She was a professor in renewable energy and land use and resource management at the State University of New York System where she was twice honored as Outstanding Teacher of the Year. For more than 30 years Lee has been working as an international business consultant. She has been listed in the international “Who’s Who of Women, Outstanding Women of the 20th Century,” et al.

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Pete Nelson

Pete Nelson has traveled the world creating masterpieces of arboreal architecture, sharing his deep-felt passion and training with a new generation of tree house builders and dwellers. Nelson designs and builds tree houses with a talented group of individuals at his company, Nelson Treehouse and Supply. He is the co-founder of TreeHouse Workshop, started in 1997, that teaches hands-on tree house design and construction.

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