Warren Leach
An Introduction


Warren Leach is a passionate plant collector, nurseryman, horticulturist and landscape designer with a depth of knowledge of all garden plants - both perennial and woody plants and tropical and temperate. Warren is also an admired speaker, writer and educator.

 

For more than thirty five years, Warren has been creating beautiful landscapes throughout New England as well as making captivating and educational display gardens at Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth. He is co-owner of this specialty nursery that is a prominent grower of daylilies, iris and distinctive perennials and woody plants.

 

Warren is an award winning landscape designer, twice receiving the National Landscape Association Regional Certificate of Merit for Residential Landscape Design. Images of his garden design at Brigham Hill Farm in North Grafton, Massachusetts are archived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

 

In 2009, the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association presented him the 1st Place Award for Residential Design and Installation. In 2010, Roger Swain presented Warren and wife Debi Hogan with the Elisabeth and Roger Swain Award for Design and Execution at the Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show. That same year the Massachusetts Horticultural Society honored Warren with a Gold Medal for his horticultural expertise, landscape design as well as years of forcing plants and creating exceptional displays in the New England Spring Flower Show. For six years between 1996 and 2013, Warren and his wife Debi Hogan Chaired the Miniature Gardens Competition in the Flower Show and also created award-winning miniature gardens.

 

Warren has taught horticulture and landscape design at numerous horticultural institutions throughout the Northeast including: The University of Rhode Island, the Brown University Learning Community, Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education, the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Horticulture Magazine and Radcliffe. He has also offered programs for numerous garden clubs, botanical gardens and professional organizations.

 

Warren’s new book, published by Timber Press, Plants for the Winter Garden, will be released on November 5, 2024. Articles written by Warren, have been published in Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Green Scene, American Nurseryman and Boston magazines.



 

                                Read More about Warren's New Book

      Plants for the Winter Garden

 

Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to add Interest in the Cold and Snow

 

by Warren Leach

Timber Press

Available November 5, 2024

ISBN 978-1-60469-926-5


 

                                                Read Articles by Warren Leach
 
            Cold-Hard Containers

 

Rugged shrubs in permanent pots add life to the frozen landscape

 

by Warren Leach

Horticulture Magazine

November / December 2024

pp. 26 - 33

article excerpted from Plants for the Winter Garden

   
Geometry Makes a Garden Better

 

by Warren Leach

Fine Gardening Magazine

April 2023

pp. 46 - 55

 


 

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