B.N.A.R.G.S.

Berkshire chapter North American Rock Garden Society

About James Locklear...

Speaker, May 2007  meeting.

Curator of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, Jim's professional interests center on horticulture and botany.  As a horticulturist, he has introduced several Great Plains wildflowers into commercial
nursery production. As a botanist, he has conducted studies of imperiled plants for TheNature Conservancy and the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service. He is actively involved in the American Public Gardens Association.

Jim enjoys writing about plants, and has
published articles in American Gardener,American Horticulturist, American Nurseryman,
Horticulture, NEBRASKAland, Perennial Plants, Plant Conservation, and Wyoming Wildlife magazines. He contributed two chapters to Rock Garden Plants of North America, published by Timber Press in 1996, and is currently writing a book on the genus Phlox, also for Timber Press.

Jim grew up in Kansas City. He has a BS degree in biology from Central Missouri State University
and a MS in Plant and Soil Science from Southern Illinois University. He and his wife Lynn live in Lincoln, Nebraska.