美国格林利联合事务所（Greenlee & Associates）是一家由”草甸先生”约翰·格林利于 2009 年在加利福尼亚州创立的高草甸生态与可持续景观设计工作室，专注以观赏草为主的多年生草本群落构建低维护、节水抗旱的长效花园景观。
创始人约翰·格林利与工作室概况
约翰·格林利拥有逾四十年的观赏草与多年生草本群落设计经验，被园艺界誉为”草甸先生”（The Grass Man），其代表作品横跨华特迪士尼动物王国、洛杉矶盖蒂中心、休斯敦动物园等顶级公共机构，以及北加利福尼亚半岛和南湾逾百座私人住宅花园。三十五年来，事务所与布鲁克林植物园、纽约植物园、芝加哥植物园等科研机构以及 AECOM、SWA Group、James Corner Field Operations 等顶级景观公司保持稳定协作。2002 年，约翰·格林利获南加州园艺学会年度园艺学家殊荣。
团队构成与三大服务体系
事务所核心团队由约翰·格林利与帕特·皮维（Pat Peavey）、罗伯托·格拉迪利亚（Roberto Gradilla）、马德拉·布伊德格拉夫（Madeira BooydeGraaff）等六位长期合作的园艺与设计专业人士组成，业务链条覆盖项目顾问、植物采购与数字内容管理全流程。事务所提供三类互补服务：一是面向私家花园的全流程设计咨询（consulting），二是面向大型公共景观项目的植物供应与合约种植（plant sourcing / contract grow），三是为同行景观设计师提供专业协作（professional collaboration）。事务所作品也屡获美国建筑师学会城市设计奖（AIA Award）、旧金山花卉园艺展四金奖、卡梅尔园艺展三金奖等国际荣誉。
草甸植物专长与代表作品
事务所的核心竞争力来自其自有植物清单中近四十种观赏草与草甸地被植物，包括加州本地物种加州田菁草（Carex praegracilis）、加州草甸薹草（Carex pansa）、太平洋岸野青茅（Calamagrostis nutkaensis ‘The King’），以及源自约翰·格林利长期选育的标志性品种格林利杂交蓝滨草（Sesleria ‘Greenlee Hybrid’）和绿利蜘蛛草（Tradescantia ‘Greenlee’）。这些植物专为低维护、节水抗旱的草甸花园选育，可在多种气候带与土壤条件下形成稳定群落效果。代表作品包括南湾”后院香格里拉”——在酒窖屋顶种植以塞斯拉草为基底的混合草甸；旧金山半岛的混合草甸花园以五十余种观赏草在山脊坡地上构建可承受维护车辆通行的”草地道路”；纳帕谷漂浮草甸项目将观赏草移栽至浮动岛屿，解决了一英亩池塘水位变化带来的植被挑战。
学术著述与国际声誉
约翰·格林利是国际公认的观赏草与草甸园艺权威，先后著有《观赏草百科全书》（The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses）和《草甸设计：美国草甸花园》（Meadows By Design: The American Meadow Garden），后者于 2010 年获美国园艺作家协会金奖。他还参与编写《重塑加州草坪》《布鲁克林植物园 21 世纪园艺丛书·低维护本地草坪》等重要作品。自 1992 年起，他平均每年发表十场国际演讲，足迹遍及五大洲同行活动，并于 2019 年在北京景观博览会与瑞典隆德大学”超越自然的多年生种植”会议上发表主题演讲。媒体覆盖包括《纽约时报》《洛杉矶时报》《纽约客》《日落杂志》等国际主流刊物。
Greenlee & Associates is a California-based garden design and plant sourcing studio founded in 2009 by John Greenlee, widely known in horticultural circles as “The Grass Man,” with a singular focus on sustainable grass ecology and ornamental meadow landscapes designed for low maintenance and drought tolerance.
Founding Vision and Studio Overview
With more than four decades of experience in sustainable ornamental grass communities, Greenlee pioneered the use of perennial grass ecologies as the structural backbone of low-maintenance, drought-tolerant meadows. The studio’s portfolio spans celebrated public projects including Walt Disney’s Animal Kingdom savannas, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and the Houston Zoo, alongside more than one hundred private residences across Northern California and abroad. Over thirty-five years of project work has produced an enduring collaborator network spanning Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the New York Botanical Garden, Chicago Botanic Garden, and leading firms such as AECOM, SWA Group, and James Corner Field Operations.
Studio Team and Three Service Lines
The close-knit team combines John Greenlee’s design vision with the day-to-day expertise of Office Manager Pat Peavey, Junior Landscape Designer Roberto Gradilla, Associate Madeira BooydeGraaff, Bookkeeper Marianne Amaya, and Digital Content Manager Sedge Greenlee. The studio offers three coordinated services: full-service design consulting for private clients, contract-grown plant sourcing for large public projects, and professional collaboration with fellow landscape architects. Named the 2002 Horticulturist of the Year by the Southern California Horticultural Society, Greenlee leads a practice recognized with the AIA Award for Urban Design at Hunters Point Shoreline, four Gold Medals at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show, and three Gold Medals at the Carmel Garden Show.
Meadow Plant Palette and Signature Projects
The studio curates a roster of nearly forty ornamental grasses and meadow groundcovers forming the core of every design. California natives such as California Field Sedge (Carex praegracilis), California Meadow Sedge (Carex pansa), and The King Pacific Reed Grass (Calamagrostis nutkaensis ‘The King’) are joined by signature selections bred through John Greenlee’s own trials, including Greenlee Hybrid Moor Grass (Sesleria ‘Greenlee Hybrid’) and Pale Puma Spiderwort (Tradescantia ‘Greenlee’). All are selected for drought tolerance and low-maintenance performance across varied climates and soils. Signature built works include the Backyard Shangri-La rooftop meadow atop a Napa wine cave, the Mixed Meadow Garden on the San Francisco Peninsula that blends more than fifty grasses into a hillside meadow capable of supporting maintenance vehicles, and a one-acre Floating Meadow installation on a Napa Valley pond.
Publications and International Recognition
John Greenlee is the author of two landmark books, The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses and Meadows By Design: The American Meadow Garden, the latter receiving the 2010 Garden Writers’ Association Gold Medal for Best Book. He has also contributed to Reimagining the California Lawn, Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 21st Century Gardening Series, and other influential titles. He has delivered an average of ten international lectures each year since 1992, including keynote appearances at the Beijing Landscape Expo 2019 and Lund University’s Urban Growth symposium in Sweden. The studio’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Sunset Magazine, and House & Garden, and broadcast on PBS The New Garden and HGTV Way to Grow.
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