Gene Rozenboom, Director-at-Large (First Term)

Gene grew up in Iowa and began his gardening trajectory “bulldozing roads” with his Tonka trucks in his mother’s vegetable garden as a child. He attended Iowa State University with a degree in Agricultural Education and a minor in Horticulture. He worked for the extension service as an Integrated Pest Management specialist. Gene has led several garden tours to Europe in the Netherlands and Denmark. He is active with the North American Maple Society and the American Conifer Society. He belongs to the Denmark Garden Society, the Dutch Garden Foundation, the International Magnolia Society, the Hardy Fern Foundation and other gardening organizations such as HPSO. Gene can usually be found in the garden trying to recreate a Piet Ouldolf style garden or adding strange and keen plants to other parts of the garden. He has been gardening on a steep hillside in Portland Oregon for the past 14 years.