2005 Plant Sale Handbook - The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore ...

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Gena Scanlon has immense garden passion and enthusiasm for
diverse herbaceous plants. She recently purchased one of the most
historic estates in Delaware County and is hard at work restoring the
extensive gardens.
Ian Simpkins is currently the Executive Director of the Friends of the
Japanese House and Garden in Fairmount Park. He was enormously
inspired by the late JC Raulston when he served as student curator
at the JC Raulston Arboretum in North Carolina. Ian has also been
Curatorial Intern at the Scott Arboretum where he co-designed and
installed the Bio-Stream.
Sue Stark has been a gardener at the Scott Arboretum for the past
six years, and is currently the Volunteer Coordinator. She completed
the Arboretum Studies Program at Barnes and has worked at Styer’s
and La Costa in California.
Allan Summers is project manager and landscape architectural
designer with Rodney Robinson Landscape Architects. His design
work takes him from Virginia to Martha’s Vineyard. At his Wallingford
home, he experiments with dramatic plant combinations with his
talented wife, Lisa Roper (see above).
Harold Sweetman is the Executive Director of the Jenkins
Arboretum. A biologist by training, he has worked for nearly two
decades developing Jenkins’ extensive collection of species and
hybrid rhododendrons and azaleas, as well as providing a showcase
for the full range of native flora. Dr. Sweetman maintains a poisonous
plant collection for the purpose of student field study.
Lenny Wilson has been the Public Landscape Manager for the
Delaware Center for Horticulture since 1999. He was formerly a
Garden Supervisor at the Scott Arboretum. Be sure to ask him about
creating shoes out of beech leaves, and he’ll open a chapter of his
life that expands on his creative ingenuity as a shoemaker.
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