Pictured above: Leslie Herndon (left) and Jeff Allegood
Raleigh, NC – The North Carolina Nursery & Landscape Association (NCNLA) elected Leslie Herndon and Jeff Allegood to serve three-year terms on the NCNLA board of directors. Both were elected during the 2018 Annual Meeting held at Green & Growin’ 18 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Herndon serves as vice president of operations at Greenscape Inc. in Holly Springs, North Carolina. She has worked for the company for 16 years and began her career there as a floriculture technician. She currently manages the operations and customer service/sales teams. Holding both professional designations as a North Carolina Plant Professional and a National Association of Landscape Professionals Landscape Industry Certified manager, she previously worked for Turtle Creek Nursery and a retail garden center employee part time while in high school and college.
Allegood serves as general manager of Old Courthouse Nursery, a 40-acre container nursery in Warsaw, North Carolina. His first job was working in the corn fields of eastern North Carolina at age 15. Allegood did landscaping and retail nursery work throughout high school and college. He is a recipient of both NCNLA’s Bill Wilder Outstanding Young Nursery Professional Award (2013) and the Southern Nursery Association’s David E. Laird, Sr. Memorial Award (2015). In addition, he is past-president of the Johnston County Nursery Marketing Association.
Herndon and Allegood join the following people on NCNLA’s board:
President Shanon Spivey of Spivey’s Nursery Inc. in Kernersville, North Carolina
Vice-President/Secretary/Treasurer Jamie Thomas of Swift Creek Nursery in Clayton, North Carolina
Past-President Chad Gragg of Buffalo Creek Nurseries Inc. in Lenoir, North Carolina
Director Hugh Crump of Greenline Designs in Charlotte, North Carolina
Director Chris Mitchell of Ewing Irrigation and Landscape Supply in Garner, North Carolina
Director Richard Gant of Gant’s Nursery in Marion, North Carolina
Director Willie Bass of Hawksridge Farms in Hickory, North Carolina