Herb Schaal, FASLA, EDAW
Fort Collins, Colorado
Herb Schaal, named 2008 Designer of the Year by the American Horticultural Society, is a landscape architect with over thirty years of experience in a broad range of applications of the profession, including urban design studies; site planning and design for corporate facilities and campuses; and highway and corridor work. He specializes in public gardens, including educational gardens for children and contemplative gardens for health care facilities. He is also an authority on the creation of natural landscapes and revegetation of difficult sites and disturbed areas. 38 of his projects have been recognized for awards by the American Society of Landscape Architects. Herb holds a MLA from State University of New York at Syracuse and is a Fellow with the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is a registered landscape architect in California, Missouri, Utah, and Wyoming, and is also certified with the National Council of Landscape Architects Review Board.

Raymond Jungles
Jungles Landscape Architect
Miami, Florida
Raymond Jungles is a landscape architect / artist who uses nature as a means of self-expression. His sensitivity and originality have attracted the attention of many. Internationally published, his gardens have won fifteen design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects and an additional two have won the coveted Frederic B. Stresau Award given to the best project of the current year. Numerous other organizations have bestowed awards for Jungles' designs. His passion for excellence reflects in all of his designs whether they be estate gardens, resort hotels, urban design, community or recreational, domestic or international. "Ultimately I derive satisfaction when all the specific problems are resolved in a way that encourages people to understand and appreciate nature, art and gardens, " says Raymond.

Robert Truskowski
R. E. Truskowski, Inc.
Laguna Beach, California
For the past 34 years of his career, American landscape architect Robert Truskowski has created formal gardens in the South of France and tropical sanctuaries on Mustique, floated king palms down Florida's Intracoastal Waterway, trucked in 40-foot conifers to a Lake Tahoe property to provide an instant wall of privacy, and researched saltwater systems for a shark lagoon in the Red Sea. Truskowski, who established his landscape architecture business in Laguna Beach, CA, in 1971, moved in the mid-1990s to Greenwich, CT, where he worked with the late Sister Parrish, the influential doyenne of the New York decorating firm Parrish-Hadley. Today, his larger projects average 8 to 10 acres and are handled by his three offices and staff of 16. "I try to do gardens that are timeless," he says.

Current projects include restoring and expanding a classic Lockwood de Forest estate in Montecito, CA, and designing a private 30-acre botanical garden in Hawaii. For each, Robert researches new plants and materials, scours local sources for decorative antiques, and allows the architecture of the structure to determine the direction of the garden. "I am very fortunate," he says. "I create other people's fantasies."

Ellin Goetz, FASLA
Goetz + Stropes Landscape Architects, Inc.
Naples, Florida
As you travel about Collier County on any given day, you are apt to come across some of local landscape artist Ellin Goetz's wonderful designs. She is president and partner with Gerry Stropes, ASLA, of Goetz + Stropes, Landscape Architects, Inc. Ellin, who holds a BA in Art History from Vassar College and a MA in Landscape Architecture from University of Massachusetts, has received awards for her work at The Vineyards, Third Street South, Fifth Avenue South and Mediterra. She has been honored by, among others, the Boys and Girls Club, Inc. of Collier County (1999 Visionary Award), Gulfshore Life Magazine (2000 Woman of the Year award) and Naples Daily News (2004 Citizen of the Year). The Florida chapter of the ASLA recognized the design work of Goetz + Stropes work at Parque Celestial with an Award of Excellence for "an exceptional, unique and innovative solution that goes beyond achieving its purpose" in the open space category. Ellin has a rich history of community service and currently serves on the board of Big Cypress Stewardship District, Naples Chamber of Commerce, Naples Art Association, Conservation Collier Land Acquisition Committee and Naples Community Hospital.

Made Wijaya
PT. Wijaya Tribwana International
Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Made Wijaya was born Michael White in Sydney, Australia. He arrived in Bali in 1973, having jumped ship and swum ashore in a rainstorm. A student of architecture, he first of all intended the visit as a short break from his studies, but his fascination with Bali's rich culture and tradition led him to move in with a Brahman family in South Bali. After various jobs teaching tennis and English, working as a tourist guide and photojournalist, he began contributing to guide books before being asked to design the gardens of the legendary Bali Oberoi. More than 600 gardens later, Made is a world-renowned tropical garden designer whose company, P.T. Wijaya Tribwana International, has a 500-strong team of artisans and "garden commandos," as he calls them. He travels between his Bali base and Singapore, India, Spain, Morocco, Hawaii, Australia and Mexico to weave his magic.