Greg Corman

Greg is the owner of Gardening Insights. His experience includes thirty years of horticultural and design work, mostly in desert areas of Australia, the Middle East, and the Southwestern US. An avid hiker and “plant geek”, he is always looking for new species for landscaping and new ways to use plants to create interesting and enjoyable landscapes. He also loves exploring salvage yards for great stuff to turn into sculptures and garden features. Greg is well known in Tucson for his innovative classes on landscape design and he’s the Southwest expert for the online gardening education site Learn2Grow.com.  He is on the board of the Drylands Institute and an advisory committee member for the University of Arizona Arboretum.  Greg has BS and MS degrees in Agriculture from the University of Arizona and the University of Maryland, respectively.

Lynn Hassler

Before joining Gardening Insights as a horticultural consultant, Lynn worked at the Tucson Botanical Gardens for over 12 years.  Her posts included Nursery Manager, Director of Education, and Director of Horticulture. Her areas of expertise include gardening to attract birds and butterflies, native and exotic landscape plants, and wildflowers.

Lynn is the author of Birds of the American Southwest, Hummingbirds of the American West, Roadrunners, and Gambel’s Quail, all published by Tucson-based Rio Nuevo Press. She is also the author of the Deserts Coloring Book, part of the Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books series published by Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. She was editor of the Desert Bird Gardening booklet published by the Arizona Native Plant Society and Tucson Audubon Society, and served on the Arizona Native Plant Society Board for many years. She writes a bimonthly column on bird gardening for Ohio-based Bird Watcher’s Digest and is working on a book about ravens.

Besides public education involving plants and desert ecology, Lynn also lectures to community groups about southwestern birds and butterflies and has led birdwatching/nature tours in several countries. Her travels to observe nature have taken her to all seven continents. Keep an eye out for future Gardening Insights trips too!