Laura Livengood

My blogs

Gender	Female
Industry	Internet
Occupation	Marketing Director
Location	San Jose, California
Introduction	Laura Livengood has had a lifelong love affair with plants and gardens and all the creatures in them. She has a degree in Art History from UC Santa Barbara, and studied Graphic Design at UC Santa Cruz. She is also an alumni of the Horticulture and Design program at Foothill College in Los Altos CA. Laura's landscape design business, Schaubdesigns Fine Gardens, was founded in 2001. Gardens of Laura's design have won CA Landscape Contractor Association Achievement Awards every year since 2004. Laura has also appeared on four episodes of the HGTV show Landscape Smart and one episode of Curb Appeal. In 2005, Laura created a display garden for the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, which won a gold medal. Laura currently serves as past president of the largest district of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) in the country. She is also a member of the California Landscape Contractors Association (CLCA) and the Garden Writers Association (GWA).
Interests	Gardening, photography, writing