ANTHONY ARCHER WILLS
| ANTHONY ARCHER WILLS is a world renowned water garden designer, lecturer, and author. He works with earth and water to create environments that indulge the imagination and delight the senses and we are delighted to announce him as a guest lecturer in Garden Design School’s Landscape Design Program. |
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Anthony began designing water gardens in the 1960s. A true pioneer and artisan, he developed new water gardening techniques while completing his first large-scale projects for Safari Parks in England, and Bear Park in Scotland. By the mid-1970s, his techniques were adopted worldwide as the industry standard for building water gardens.
He has gone on to create more than 2,000 water features in Great Britain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, South America, Argentina and Turkey, as well as the United States.
Anthony is the author of The Water Gardener, Water Power and Designing Water Gardens, which have been published in five languages.
A charismatic speaker and teacher, Anthony has lectured for the British Association of Landscape Industries, Kew Gardens, the Chelsea Physic Garden, the New York Botanic Garden as well as numerous universities, colleges and garden societies throughout the U.K. and U.S.
He has been featured on several radio broadcasts, and on BBC television. In 2008, he received the Joseph McCloskey Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Art and Craft of Watershaping, awarded by WaterShapes magazine. He frequently contributes articles to a host of periodicals, including Elle Decoration, The Four Seasons, Country Living, Gardens Illustrated, London Sunday Times Magazine, Water Garden News and Ponds magazine.
For more information see www.archerwills.com
Jules Bruck
| Jules Bruck is one of the USA’s most respected lecturers in garden design, horticulture and landscape contracting and also a highly accomplished freelance designer. Jules Bruck, PhD., APLD has over 17 years experience in garden design, landscaping contracting and horticultural education. |
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She holds advanced degrees in Landscape Contracting, Horticulture and Design, and Agricultural Education from Penn State and Texas A&M Universities. She is currently working on a variety of residential garden designs in addition to several master-planning projects for campus gardens and sustainable community developments.
She holds faculty positions at the University of Delaware and at Longwood Gardens and she lectures and teaches internationally on a variety of topics including design, horticulture, and design education. Jules is the current Chair of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers' (APLD) Education Committee and the 2008 recipient of the Innovation in Teaching award from the University of Delaware.
For more information see www.julesbruck.com
Laura Kuhn
| A self-taught designer, Laura brought her experiences in theatre arts & choreography to the design of outdoor spaces in 1999. In 2000, she started her own business, which continues to thrive solely by word-of-mouth. Laura creates custom artistic & wild spaces for private clients in the New England Region & beyond.
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Laura currently serves on the Board of the international Association of Professional Landscape Designers as Chair of Legislative Affairs. Laura was instrumental in redeveloping the comprehensive MCLP certification program for the MA Association of Landscape Professionals from 2002-2006. This respected program has set new standards for the landscape construction industry in Massachusetts & beyond. She has worked with trade associations based in New England since prior to starting her own business, and she continues to work today with many contacts earned through membership & active service in APLD, ELA, MACC, MNLA, MLP, NOFA & other groups.
Jeffrey Scott
 Jeffrey Scott, has a unique perspective on Leadership and Business Growth in
the green-industry.
He grew up in the industry, working in the business from the age of 7. But after he graduated college he moved to Europe, where he consulted with
international companies on their business growth strategies.
He then moved back to the USA where he took over his family’s designbuild-
maintenance business.
Jeffrey grew the company from $5 to $10 million—based on increasing his
company’s reputation, margins, retention, and referrals.
After experiencing the family-business environment, Jeffrey then went back
into consulting, where he created a unique PEER GROUP program for lawn,
tree and landscape professionals.
He found that he was able to help contractors transform and profitably grow
their businesses--by facilitating groups of like-minded landscape business
leaders, in a confidential small-group setting.
Tim Thoelecke
 A past president of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, Tim Thoelecke has been in the landscape design profession for more than 20 years.
He founded Garden Concepts, an award-winning residential design/ build firm, in 1988 and has won numerous awards from various industry associations. In 2002, he was awarded the Harry Schuster Service Award from APLD.
Tim’s work has appeared in more than 70 publications including magazines, newspapers and coffee table books. He even had a project featured in Better Homes and Gardens in 2006 and appeared on HGTV’s Landscapers’ Challenge.
In August, 2007, he was featured as APLD’s “Member of the Month” and was profiled in Lawn and Landscape Magazine in September of that year.
Tim is founder American Academy of Landscape Design, a professional development program that improves the confidence and skills of landscape designers and landscape architects.
Tim lives in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago with his wife Chris and three children.
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