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Steve and Julie Plath bring experiences as specialized as the plants they grow to Signature Botanica. Julie’s degrees in Horticulture and over 20 years of greenhouse growing across the country give her a keen eye and focus on the details to produce exceptional results. 
From Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania to the Bellagio Conservatory in Las Vegas, Julie Is challenged to make the toughest plants amenable to container culture and a diversity of end uses.
Steve found his niche in the environmental and revegetation industry as a grower for the Viceroy Gold Corporation’s Castle Mountain Mine in California. Mandated mitigation for an open pit mine required him to develop pioneering techniques to successfully repopulate acres of crushed overburden (rock) and leach pads with Mohave native plants from the site specific area.  He went on to companies such as Bitteroot Restoration, Inc (CA and MT), and Native Resources International of Arizona involving plants and ecological restoration projects throughout the southwest and northern California. His passion, which includes a lifelong love of desert plants and succulents, gives him an extraordinary ability to meet the challenge of producing plants and assuring their survival for reveg.
Signature Botanica’s modest beginning includes a 700 sq ft greenhouse with full environmental control for propagation and 3,600 sq ft of pest-excluding shade. Expansion is underway for Tall Pot production and increasing inventory. Fifty-thousand Western Honey Mesquite were grown under contract for CRIT (Colorado River Indian Tribes) and that project will continue to restore burned acreage on the Colorado River. Great Bear Restoration of Hamilton, Montana, has contracted for site-specific seed collection on the Peabody Coal Mine in northeastern Arizona. |
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