Meet Chris Olsen, born in West Hartford, Connecticut, Chris graduated from the University of San Diego with a degree in business. With a passion for plants and landscape architecture, Chris was honored with the acceptance to Oxford University in England. There Chris excelled in landscape architecture, landscape principles, and philosophy. Soon after graduation, Chris moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, and has called it home ever since.

In partnership with his father, Chris obtained a landscape company and named it Horticare. After 10 years he opened his second Home & Garden store, Botanica Gardens, and a few years later sold Horticare. Chris runs his business from Botanica while actively pursuing speaking engagements, TV and media opportunities.

For the past eleven years Chris has been known as the “Garden Guru” on the CBS affiliated station KHTV Channel 11, where he is featured on the morning, noon, and evening segments in the Weather Garden. People from all around Arkansas E-mail their gardening questions to Chris hoping he will choose their topic for the “Dig that Garden” segment. His viewer ship has grown and his reputation has spread with his weekly segments full of gardening, home and decorating ideas.

This March Chris began developing brand new segments for the Today’s THV news at 5 p.m. and Saturdays at 7 am. These completely original segments are filmed on location and air twice per week. Topics will cover everything from interior and exterior design, holiday decorating - and even cooking! Keep and eye out for these new segments titled “Today’s Home with Chris Olsen."

Chris has also produced and narrated several 30 minute TV shows such as Arkansas Living ”Spruce up with Chis Olsen” and numerous holiday half-hour TV specials featuring Chris and hi “over-the-top” decorating ideas for the Christmas Season.

Other media credits include two National DVD’s produced by Leisure Arts and hosted and designed by Chris himself: “Refresh, Remix, Restyle” and “The Creative Party Guide”. Chris is known for his delightfully innovative ideas, but also for keeping it simple so that everyone in the audience understands and learns.

Chris has radio presence as well. Chris hosted the “Green Friday” segments on station 106.3 where viewers called in garden questions. Chris is also known for his unique and humorous writing style. He has written for several state and national magazines. Currently, he is a regular contributor for the State-by-State Gardener series magazines. This publishing company distributes garden magazines nationwide, where Chris is one of the main feature writers. Chris is currently working on his first book which will be available late fall of this year 2010.