Galen Fultz has been designing landscapes in Northern California for 30 years and is the owner of Avant Garden, a Marin County landscape design company. He has been cited in numerous publications and showcased in Better Homes and Gardens, California Home and Design, the Ross Garden Tour, and the HGTV Channel. Also a teacher, he founded the Marin Gardening School in 1996, taught landscape design at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and frequently gives talks at local nurseries and garden related events.