Warren P. Leach

IN PERSON (PREFERRED) OR VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE

• Beyond Blooms: Creative Design with Color, Structure & Seasonal Senescence
• Celebrating the Winter Garden
• Classic Design for Contemporary Gardens
• Designing, Constructing & Planting the Entry Garden
• Drought Tolerant Gardening and Landscaping
• Fluid Imagination – The Artful Design of Water in the Landscape
• Gardening Beyond Horizontal Plane – Planted Walls and Inclines
• Plant Combinations for a Long Season of Bloom
• Plants for the Late Season Garden
• Planning and Planting for Sustainable Landscapes
• Planting a Garden for Pollinators
• Probing Phenology: Compensating For Climate Changes in the Landscape
• Quenching Heat, Humidity & Drought: Gardens that Dazzle – Withstanding the Dog Days and Onward
• Turf Alternatives and Groundcovers

• Warren Leach is co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, MA, and a passionate plant collector, nurseryman, landscape horticulturist, and landscape garden designer.
• Over the last thirty-five years, Warren has created beautiful landscapes throughout New England, as well as making captivating and educational display gardens at Tranquil Lake Nursery.
• Award-winning landscape designer, twice receiving the National Landscape Assn. Regional Certificate of Merit for Residential Landscape Design.
• Images of his garden design at Brigham Hill Farm in North Grafton, MA, are archived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
• In 2009, the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Assn. presented him the 1st Place Award for Residential Design and Installation for his ornamental vegetable garden at Brigham Hill Farm.
• In 2010, Roger Swain presented Warren and his wife, Debi Hogan, the Elisabeth and Roger Swain Award for Design and Execution at the RI Spring Flower and Garden Show.
• The Massachusetts Horticultural Society honored Warren in 2010 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.

Additional Information:

• Warren is an admired speaker and educator at numerous Horticultural Institutions, Botanic Gardens, and Professional Organizations throughout the Northeast
• His new book, “Plants for the Winter Garden” was released by Timber Press in November 2024. It received the American Horticultural Society Book Award for 2025.