September 2022
Bob Grese is Professor Emeritus in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the former director of the University’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum.
He formerly taught in the landscape architecture program and is a strong advocate of ecologically based design and ecological restoration. He has researched the work of early landscape architects who advocated such an approach to design, especially the work of O.C. Simonds and Jens Jensen who worked throughout the Midwest, including in the Rock River valley, and were known for the “Prairie style” of landscape gardening.
Bob is the author of Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens and The Native Landscape Reader. He is a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects as well as in the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Bob is also an honorary member of the Garden Club of America and serves as the president of the Ann Arbor Chapter of the Wild Ones.