Kristopher Dabner is President and Creative Director of The Greensman, Inc. He has been involved in creative pursuits his entire life. He graduated with a degree in Architecture from the University of Kansas. He has also worked as an art director for television and film. He founded the Greensman in 1994 and the company has grown from a “one man show,” to its current size of 15 full-time and up to 30 seasonal employees.

Kristopher’s philosophy combines great design, enormous energy, entrepreneurship and philanthropy and he uses that philosophy to create unique gardens for the Greensman’s clients. Greensman designs take a full-picture approach, incorporating the existing structure, expanding the hardscape, taking into account plans for the future environment. Kristopher’s designs have been featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Country Gardens, Kansas City Home Design, KC Magazine, SPACES and the Kansas City Star.

Charles has had careers as an actor, a singer, engineer, restaurant manager, and these days a bookkeeper. He’s a third-generation only child who was born and grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri. His career in landscaping began in 2001 assisting on a water feature construction; continued into crew maintenance and installation work; and eventually landed him in front of the one company desktop teaching himself Quickbooks. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri S&T).

Charles’ favorite plants are flowering perennials and decorative grasses; he loves watching the cycle of growth from nothing (above ground) to peak to cutback to starting over again the next year. Charles and his husband Joseph enjoy spending weekends at their home at Lake Ozark, traveling, and parenting a loveable but strong-willed Catahoula leopard mix named Denali. Other pastimes include cooking, knitting, paddle boarding, and photography.

Jamie Veatch was born in Wichita, Kansas, and attended college at the University of Kansas. Upon graduation from KU, she began working a temporary summer job as an annuals flower installer that would turn in to a career in horticulture. The last nine years have been spent in all fields of a maintenance division to include pruning, turf chemical application, plant health, installation and management.

Lee is a transplant from Nanih Waiya, Mississippi, where he grew up on an orchard. Growing up in a magical landscape designed by a master horticulturist surrounded by wild forests and pine plantations began inspiring him to dig deeper into landscapes from an early age. Lee moved to Kansas City in 2016 after receiving his bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Mississippi State University.

Lee is most passionate about native plants and ecology. His favorite tree is the Blackjack Oak.

Lee spends his weekends playing in his own landscape as well as brainstorming and falling in love with clients’ landscapes. Lee hopes to make a career of designing beautiful spaces for people, whether public or private, that also meet the needs of local ecology. His biggest landscape regret so far is planting English ivy at the base of the trees in his parents’ yard back home in Mississippi (eradication in progress).