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Doug Landwehr has been an amateur gardener, designer and writer for more than 25 years. He began a professional career in landscape design during the time that he was enrolled in the Horticulture Technician program at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. He graduated in May 2002.

In addition, he has been awarded a BA-Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MS-Administrative Science from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where his thesis topic was Organization, Change and Leadership in 12 Northeastern Wisconsin Landscape Organizations.

He is able to design and project manage residential, commercial and public landscapes. Services include interviewing the client and surveying an existing landscape; creating an original design incorporating and estimating plant material, turf, hardscape and accent features; producing the design in pencil and pen or on CAD or digital software design packages; soliciting bids for the installation of a landscape; managing the installation project; and advising the customer on the care and maintenance of the completed landscape.

He apprenticed in the landscape design departments of Vande Hey’s Landscape, Little Chute, and Landscape Associates, De Pere and was on the landscape design and sales staff of Schmalz Custom Landscape for two years. In just a few years, Doug has completed more than 200 designs worth more than $750,000 in new and existing residential, commercial and public landscapes in Green Bay and the Fox River Valley and has been a contract designer for GreenPride Landscapes, Green Bay, and Ground One Enterprises and The Sharper Edge, De Pere. He has also worked with Direct Development, Dimension IV and SlaM Architects on commercial landscape plans.

Doug has contributed services to Historic Hazelwood, the Astor Neighborhood Association in Green Bay and the Unity Hospice and was invited to participate in the 2003 review of the Horticulture program at the Milwaukee Area Technical College. He is starting a new volunteer venture in 2006 as an adult and children’s tour guide at the Green Bay Botanical Garden.

Doug passed the Wisconsin IPM licensing test for Turf and Landscape in December 2000 and was awarded a UW-Extension Master Gardener certificate in October 2001. He is an associate member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) and is a continuing member of the American Horticultural Society, Green Bay Botanical Garden and the Minnesota Horticulture Society.

His landscape design for The Astor House Bed & Breakfast of Green Bay was nominated for a Green Bay Gardener Club award in 1996 and he is assembling a design portfolio for a landscape designer certification with Association of Professional Landscape Designers.

Landscape teaching experience: 
Color Palette of Gertrude Jekyll (1 hour), NWTC Non-Credit Herbaceous Class, Summer 2002
Designware Landscape Design Software (45 Minutes), NWTC Capstone Class, Spring 2002

Writing and studies include:  
New House, New Yard – Now what do you? Gallery of Homes, GB Press Gazette, April 2003
Rural Cemeteries and Landscape Design, article for Brown County Historical Society, August 2002
Organization, Change and Leadership in 12 Northeastern Wisconsin Landscape Organizations
Thesis for Masters of Science Degree, UWGB, Spring 2002
Niagara Escarpment, NWTC Soils study, Spring 2001
Soil Survey of Brown County, NWTC Introduction to Horticulture study, Fall 2000
Canadian Hardy Roses, NWTC Integrated Pest Management study, Fall 2000