Director of Botanical Gardens, Moore Farms South Carolina. Curator and designer for one the most horticulturally sophisticated private gardens in the state - a 25 acre garden with a staff of 9 horticulturist. Manages staff and botanical collections and plants databases, forestry and long-term planning. Additional responsibilities include being the curator and designer of the owners Victorian era garden and cycad collection in Charleston.

Lushlife Nursery. Owns and operates a connoisseurs nursery specializing in sub-tropic genus of the amaryllis family - Crinum. We provide proven varieties, correctly named, healthy field grown crinums to horticulturist, botanical gardens through out the US. We also ship crinum boxes gifts to garden. This is a small, family operated nursery with his partner Tom Hall, co-owner, and lots of support from out family. Lushlife also partners with Isagenix nutritional cleansing to promote great, organic food and fantastic health for us and our customers.

Writing and Lectures. Lectures all over for groups as diverse as The Smithsonian Institute, Wave Hill Gardens to the Antique Rose Emporium and the Allendale Ladies Afternoon Social Club. His articles appear regularly in Carolina Gardener and in the past in Fine Gardening, Organic Gardening, Horticulture, American Nurseryman and several scientific journals

Prior. Managed construction and established all staff, design and curation policies for Riverbanks Botanical Garden, SC. Curator of Arcadia, a 1930’s camellia garden. Designed gardens from Seattle to Managua. Public Outreach Manager, Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle. Established a 100 year planting plan for Columbia College.

Education: MS, Public Garden Management and Forestry, University of Washington. BS, Horticulture, Clemson.

Personal: He and his partner live in a 1930’s house in Columbia and a 1750's house in Beech Island, SC. He loves to read about very old plant books, science fiction, history and ethnographies. He has traveled extensively through Central America collecting plants.

A seventh-generation South Carolinian, he grew up on a Beech Island family farm.
Founding Board Member: Charleston Parks Conservancy
Board Member: Lake City Community Organization
Volunteer: Historic Columbia Foundation