Rodney Robinson
2010 RPA CELEBRATED PLANT EXPERT

For the past twenty five years, Rodney Robinson has practiced landscape architecture in the Philadelphia area. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 with a Master of Landscape Architecture, Rodney worked as a staff landscape architect for the Philadelphia firms George E. Patton, Inc. and WRT, Inc. In 1985 he left WRT to start his own practice and for the next nine years was partner in the Philadelphia firm CLRdesign, Inc. At CLR, he was responsible for projects involving public parks, campus planning, landscape restoration, public/private gardens and zoological exhibit design.

Since 1995 Mr. Robinson has been principal of Rodney Robinson Landscape Architects, in Wilmington, Delaware. With a current staff of six landscape architects, the firm focuses on site planning and garden design for public, private, and historic properties. Some of Mr. Robinson’s clients have included the Architect of the Capitol in Washington D.C., Longwood Gardens, Winterthur Museum and Gardens, the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College, Chanticleer and Preservation Delaware, Inc.

Rodney lectures frequently on landscape architecture and design, at the University of Pennsylvania and at Longwood Gardens, and has participated with the Philadelphia Flower Show as a judge for the past fifteen years.