I grew up in Colorado Springs, CO.  I mowed my first yard at 10 and did landscaping & maintenance with an old Jeep & trailer until I graduated from high school.  After high school, I attended Colorado School of Mines (Engineering) for a year,  but decided they wanted me to be an engineer more than I did...My brother was in OR working on his Masters and invited me out to have a look at OSU...GO BEAVS!!!   I was on my way to growing webfeet.  I spent a year receiving residency in Oregon, and proceeded become one of the first Oregon Certified Nurseryman while working for Don & Sandra Powell at Garland Nursery, between Corvallis & Albany.  While attending Oregon State University I continued to work at Garland's, do work-study on campus, and be a partner in Workhorse Landscape Maintenance.  I graduated with a Bachelor Of Science Degree in Agriculture, Landscape & Turfgrass Management, in 1982.  I was a golf course mow-jockey for a short time, a ChemLawn spray-jockey for a bit longer, and ended up at Oswego Lake CC doing an internship of sorts, learning about becoming a Golf Course Superintendent.  Three years later I had my first real job as a Golf Course Superintendent at Tumwater Valley Golf Course in Tumwater, WA., and spent 13 years at it...I then did a short stint at a retail garden center in Olympia, then 3 years as an estate gardener in Burien, WA, and now at Briggs for just over 9 years.

Jim Siehl

Blooming Nursery

www.bloomingadvantage.com

An avid gardener, Jim has been in the nursery industry for 20 years and counting. His love of gardening, and the industry grew with his career that began as a job watering plants in 1988. Through the years he has enjoyed and held many different jobs in the industry; Nursery Buyer, Merchandiser, and Manager to some of the best nurseries in Southern California. He moved to Oregon in 2000 for a Nursery Buyer Position, and has been here ever since. (He loves it here!) Jim joined Blooming Nursery as their Western Sales Representative in 2005, covering 5 Western States.