PlantTimes

Susan Mertz is my go to expert for horticultural and botanical plant knowledge! Her seasoned experience has charted and set the coarse of the plant palette in the Midwest and Kansas City Greens Industry for over 20 years. Her influence has started and grown several wholesale nurseries in the KC metro area. Her helpful guidance has served not only me, but hundreds of other landscape contractors, designers and laborers. Susan's knowledge and passion for plants is expressed in her career's experience to grow and produce plants, to procure and promote plant materials, and has evolved to become a writer and editor in the marketing and educational industries for plants. Her leadership to the Green Industry is found not only in her membership to numerous professional organizations, but in her commitment and responsibility to chair and sit on their boards. Her keen eye as a creative photographer has captured breath-taking beauty and intrigue with a plants unique characteristics, as individual plants and their relationships in landscapes.