Fred Hower, The Ohio Nurseryman

Fred is an educator, a certified arborist, and has 40 years of experience as a horticultural consultant and landscape designer. The author of over 400 columns in 90 newspapers, Fred also hosts the radio show, "Plant Talk," and teaches in the horticulture department at Columbus State Community College. In addition, Fred serves on a variety of councils and boards for the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association, the city of Worthington, Ohio, the Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum, Columbus State Community College, and the Columbus Dispatch Charities Home and Garden Show.

A graduate of Ohio State University, Fred has a B.S. in Ornamental Horticulture. Fred has received the Meritorious Service Award from the Agriculture Alumni Association, the first Senior Careerist Award from the Ohio State University Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, three Grand Awards for Landscape Design from the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association, the Award of Merit from the International Society of Arboriculture, and a PLAN award for landscape design from the Junior League of Columbus. Fred has also been active in the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association, the Columbus Landscape Association, the Southwestern Ohio Environmental Horticultural Association, the International Society of Arboriculture, and is an honorary member of the Ohio Landscaper's Association.