About
Mantis Plant Works is a one woman, ecologically obsessed horticultural operation based out of Brooklyn, NY.
Services
Garden Design
Horticultural Consultation
Botanical & Ecological Education
Bio
Rebecca McMackin is from sturdy New England stock. And thank goodness because she's been gardening her entire life.
By day, Rebecca is the Park Horticulturalist for award winning Brooklyn Bridge Park , where she and her team of gardeners manage 85 acres of ornamental beds, forest ecosystems, meadows, greenroofs, turf, and wetlands organically with an emphasis on encouraging wildlife habitat.
Prior to this, she worked for the NYC Dept of Parks and Recreation as Head Gardener of Washington Square Park, among others. Before moving to New York, she worked for a native plant nursery in Connecticut, where she soon went independent and launched Mantis Plant Works, designing and caring for the some of the area's most incredible gardens.
Rebecca holds a MSc in Landscape Design from Columbia University, where she was a 2012 Innovation Scholar Award recipient. She has studied Horticulture at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Botanical Garden and earned her Master Gardener Certification from the BBG. Before becoming obsessed with horticulture full time, she was a research fellow studying and teaching freshwater ecology at the University of Victoria, where she earned her first MSc.
Rebecca will talk your ear off about plants and relishes any opportunity to do so. She teaches the tree class for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Horticultural Certification Program, and will soon teach classes on Gardening for Wildlife and Pollination Ecology. She teaches soil science and pollination ecology at the Young Farmers Conference at Blue Hill at Stone Barns annually. She and Brook Kalusing gave a talk on creating outdoor rooms at the 2012 New England Grows conference to an intimidating number of people, and this year she gave the Keynote Address for the Ecological Landscaping Symposium. She lectures annually at various universities, teaches workshops in Brooklyn community gardens, and has mentored a number of new gardeners.
She loves plants so much that she allowed and encouraged the New York Times to publish an article she wrote on the detriments of letting your dog "water" plants, and even made The Daily News with her focus on plants as habitat for insects, birds, and even humans. Most recently, her article on horticultural management after Hurricane Sandy was published by the ELA.
Rebecca is an ISA-certified arborist and sits on the Council of the Torrey Botanical Society.
Services
Garden Design
Horticultural Consultation
Botanical & Ecological Education
Bio
Rebecca McMackin is from sturdy New England stock. And thank goodness because she's been gardening her entire life.
By day, Rebecca is the Park Horticulturalist for award winning Brooklyn Bridge Park , where she and her team of gardeners manage 85 acres of ornamental beds, forest ecosystems, meadows, greenroofs, turf, and wetlands organically with an emphasis on encouraging wildlife habitat.
Prior to this, she worked for the NYC Dept of Parks and Recreation as Head Gardener of Washington Square Park, among others. Before moving to New York, she worked for a native plant nursery in Connecticut, where she soon went independent and launched Mantis Plant Works, designing and caring for the some of the area's most incredible gardens.
Rebecca holds a MSc in Landscape Design from Columbia University, where she was a 2012 Innovation Scholar Award recipient. She has studied Horticulture at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Botanical Garden and earned her Master Gardener Certification from the BBG. Before becoming obsessed with horticulture full time, she was a research fellow studying and teaching freshwater ecology at the University of Victoria, where she earned her first MSc.
Rebecca will talk your ear off about plants and relishes any opportunity to do so. She teaches the tree class for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Horticultural Certification Program, and will soon teach classes on Gardening for Wildlife and Pollination Ecology. She teaches soil science and pollination ecology at the Young Farmers Conference at Blue Hill at Stone Barns annually. She and Brook Kalusing gave a talk on creating outdoor rooms at the 2012 New England Grows conference to an intimidating number of people, and this year she gave the Keynote Address for the Ecological Landscaping Symposium. She lectures annually at various universities, teaches workshops in Brooklyn community gardens, and has mentored a number of new gardeners.
She loves plants so much that she allowed and encouraged the New York Times to publish an article she wrote on the detriments of letting your dog "water" plants, and even made The Daily News with her focus on plants as habitat for insects, birds, and even humans. Most recently, her article on horticultural management after Hurricane Sandy was published by the ELA.
Rebecca is an ISA-certified arborist and sits on the Council of the Torrey Botanical Society.