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Edmund C. Snodgrass

Edmund C. Snodgrass started the first green roof nursery in the United States and has collaborated on green roof research with colleges and universities. A fifth-generation farmer and nurseryman, he is owner and president of Emory Knoll Farms Inc. and Green Roof Plants in Street, Maryland, specializing in plants and horticultural consulting for green roofs.

In the 1980s Ed redesigned Emory Knoll using the principles of sustainability. He is a committed conservationist and has put most of the land into an agricultural preservation trust. Emory Knoll Farms Inc. supplies plants for over one million square feet of green roofs in 20 states and the District of Columbia, as well as internationally. It is the only nursery in North America that is solely dedicated to green roof plants.

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Books by Edmund Snodgrass

Green Roof Plants

A Resource and Planting Guide

By Edmund C. Snodgrass and Lucie L. Snodgrass

204 pp., hardcover

$29.95  £20.00