Name: Paul Redman - 2017 DASNR Distinguished Alumnus
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Even when he was appearing on Oklahoma Gardening as a Horticulture student,

Paul Redman had a knack for educating the public about agriculture.

When I first finished graduate school, was hired

by Oklahoma State University back in 1989,

I met Paul is an undergraduate student and

he was very interested in public horticulture,

many people weren't quite sure what even that meant.

Paul was hired by the National Tropical Botanical Garden

and eventually he was recruited away to be the executive

director and now president of Longwood Gardens out in Pennsylvania.

the premier botanical gardens in the world.

about 400 of that is actual display gardens.

In Paul's tenure, which I believe he started back in 2006, so 11 years ago essentially--

Longwood has grown from a visitorship of about three-quarters of a million

to now just under 1.4 million guests per year.

I’ve been one of those visitors and I know what’s it like.

Not just looking at the flowers and the landscape,

but the people and how they are interacting

That’s happened because of Paul’s leadership.

As executive director, Paul also had the opportunity

to help a new generation of O-S-U students.We've

had a number of our other students go there as Longwood fellows

Having Paul at Longwood, really gives us an opportunity to create some

Whether you're from OSU or you're just a young

person in public horticulture, he wants to

And so I think that's just you know speaks to his character.

Current Oklahoma Gardening host, Casey Hentges, attended the Longwood

You know I didn't really know him when I first met him,

but I think our OSU connection obviously,

when you're in Delaware or in Pennsylvania at Longwood Gardens you know when you find

somebody from home there's that instant connection there.

And on many weekends, visitors may be able to catch a glimpse Paul

Paul is out in the garden and checking in with guests, just observing guests, visiting

with guests, getting a pulse on the garden, but also looking at the garden itself.

You’d never know that he was kind of a famous person at that garden.

He's a very passionate man with respect to having such a strong vision.

And he's very passionate about growing the leadership in public horticulture.

We think agriculture is the traditional way but it's changing so much

it's more agriculture science and biotechnology and

a lot of that same principle is being done and applied at

Paul Redman, a DASNR Distinguished Alumnus for 2017!

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