The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast

Episode 129 - Roby Babcock is the Marketing Director at Iseli Nursery, a wholesale dwarf conifer and maple grower located in Boring, Oregon.


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Roby Babcock is the Marketing Director at Iseli Nursery, a wholesale dwarf conifer and maple grower located in Boring, Oregon. Roby has a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the University of Oregon and a Master of Science in landscape architecture from the University of Arizona. After graduating from

the University of Arizona, Roby managed an 11-acre cactus and tree nursery and did freelance design. When he returned to his home state of Oregon a decade
later, he took a position at Portland Nursery and served in a variety of roles, including coordinating the displays and managing their e-commerce website.
Gardening has been a passion since his childhood and he has created an expansive garden at his home that blends zone-defying cacti, agave, and
succulents with specialty conifer specimens, manzanita, and plants native to the Pacific Northwest.   

Roby is a photographer, and his passion has led to many opportunities, including his position at Iseli Nursery, in Boring Oregon.  Roby is responsible for photographing new plants, updating the photo library, and documenting the garden. Developing social media content in combination with the Iseli website. He helps to communicate information about Iseli’s plants and goals as a company. Currently, he is working with a team to produce the new catalog. He has also redesigned sections of the Jean Iseli Memorial Garden. This position has enabled him to learn about the hundreds of unique cultivars Iseli grows and the many steps in the process of bringing them to market.

 

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