The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is home to many experts in various aspects of horticulture, such as gardening, landscape and environmental systems, pest management and plant diseases. Many horticulture experts are affiliated with Nebraska Extension.
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Justin Evertson has worked for the Nebraska Forest Service and Nebraska Statewide Arboretum since 1990, serving as the green infrastructure coordinator since 2010. He oversees programs that provide funding, technical assistance and educational outreach for community forestry and public landscaping efforts across the state. His areas of expertise are in trees, arboriculture and sustainable landscaping. Evertson has authored several publications with an emphasis on woody plant selection. He’s passionate about trees, the native landscape, biodiversity and sustainability. Evertson lives in Waverly, Nebraska, where he serves as a volunteer community forester planting trees across the community and working to make the community more biodiverse and sustainable. Updated 12/15/2023
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Roch Gaussoin, an extension turfgrass specialist and professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, is an expert on golf course greens. His current research focuses on turfgrass weed control and management of modified root-zones, especially golf course greens. In 2023, Gaussoin received the United States Golf Association Green Section Award for a significant career impact on developing strategies for resilient turfgrass management. Updated 12/15/23
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Bob Henrickson is the horticulture program coordinator with the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. As the program coordinator, he assists affiliated arboretum sites with plant collection development and works to acquire, propagate and produce mostly native plants for plant sales to the general public. Henrickson is a Nebraska-certified nurseryman and a certified arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture. He has been the host of a live, call-in gardening radio talk show, “How’s It Growin’?” in the Lincoln area since 2000. Bob is knowledgeable about plants for pollinators, wild edible plants and edible landscape plants; woody plants, ornamental grasses; herbs; ornamental grasses; raingarden and wetland plants; and rock gardens. Updated 12/15/23