MEET ME AT THE CROSSROADS OF PLANT PASSION!
I love the horticulture industry and I've spent decades discovering its nooks and crannies. My extensive expertise, experience, and enthusiasm can be put to use in a variety of ways to help your botanical practice bloom, be it personal or professional!
EARNINGS: Holistic Horticultural Business Therapy. My specialty is hybridizing science-based horticultural know-how with business & marketing savvy to provide deep insight to botanical business & brand consulting & coaching clients. Providing focus and growth opportunities with strategy guidance for existing business owners, plantrepreneurs and career transitioners. Independent garden centers (IGCs), plant growers, plant shop owners, garden designers, landscape architects, interiorscapers and plant stylists, arborists, and horticultural product developers who want to be PROFITABLE! To support this industry I write a weekly Plant For Profits column and e-newsletter.
EDUCATION: I offer high-level high-level horticulture and business learning for those seeking professional development in horticulture or continuing education, starting or growing a botanical business, and career transitioners. (Hobbyists also welcome in my courses!) I'm a keynote and session speaker at green industry and gardening conferences, and I also write gardening books and blogs for you plant and gardening hobbyists.
EXPLORATION: I love botanizing and plant-focused travel, and co-host inspiring plant and garden travel experiences! And keep your eyes open for future guided forest therapy opportunities that will blend wellness, botanizing, and botanical art through Folia Forest Therapy, starting summer 2026.
EXPRESSION: When you love plants you might also want to express that love through artistic mediums...like me! I'm also an artist and create art from the plants I love. You can find some of my available work in the SHOP.
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Excel with expert guidance to start or grow your small green industry business, or individual career, Leslie can help!
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Are you a budding plantrepreneur? Longing to start or grow your own botanical business? Maybe you already work in the horticulture industry, but are looking for strategic ways to grow. Perhaps you're "hort curious" and yearn to transition or transform your career from plant passion to plant profession. Schedule a 1:1 Consultation with me today!
