Laura D. Eisener

Laura is a landscape designer in Massachusetts and a teacher in the Landscape Institute of Arnold Arboretum. She currently also teaches course at the New England Wild Flower Society and New York Botanical Garden, and is a popular garden club speaker. Her landscape designs are mostly for private residences, and her main interests are in native plants and naturalistic landscapes.

Laura is the Massachusetts Editor of People, Places, and Plants Magazine, the magazine for Northeast Gardeners. She has also written articles for American Nurseryman, APLD News, Wild Ones, and the HortResources Newsletter. For several years she has been president of HortResources, active in the Tree Committee of her town, and a member of many horticultural organizations. In 2007 she was awarded a silver medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

She graduated from Connecticut College in New London, CT with a Bachelor of Arts degree in a double major of Botany and Anthropology and earned a Master of Landscape Architecture Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. She was a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts, and for 11 years was Curriculum Coordinator of the Landscape Design Program as well as instructor at Endicott College in Beverly. From 2002-3 she was co-host of THE ROOT OF THE MATTER on Brockton station WBET , a garden radio program.