Faculty & Staff
Suzanne Arca
Email Teaches: Plant ID and Planting Design Suzanne Arca, B. A. Landscape Architecture, is a Horticulturist, Landscape Designer, and contractor with 30 years experience in the field. She is owner and ...
Susan Ashley
Email Teaches: Nursery Management, Plant Propagation, Advanced Plant Propagation I am a part time instructor teaching LH24 Plant Propagation and LH52 Advanced Propagation. I began at Merritt as a Hort...
Tom Branca
Email Teaches: Urban Community Gardening, Introduction to Horticulture, Special Projects in Horticulture My educational pursuits began after serving four years in the navy during the Vietnam War. Upon...
Ed Brennan
Email Teaches: Soil Management, Plant Nutrition and related classes. Ed is a soil scientist and received his degrees from Colorado State University (B.S. in Soil and Water Conservation and a M.S. and ...
Pete Churgel
Email Pete’s website Teaches: The Art of the Wisteria, LH-026 Pruning Gardening was always a passion and grew to include bonsai and Japanese gardens. While a Master Gardener I enjoyed passing on my kn...
Bill Castellon
Email Teaches: Rocks in the Landscape, Introduction to Bonsai, Pruning Pines, Pruning Container Trees and Shrubs (fee-based classes)...
Jocelyn Cohen
Email Teaches: Arboriculture Although I have pursued a variety of careers my underlying interests have not changed as an ecologist, an artist and a passionate advocate for trees. In the 1970’s I parti...
Clytia Montllor Curley
Email Teaches: Insects Clytia Montllor Curley received her PhD from UC Berkeley (Entomology, 1985); she was a research entomologist at the university and in industry for almost 20 years. Her research ...
