NNLA Board of Directors

ELECTED FOR 2020-22 TERMS

Lee Olson

Lee has been in the landscape and nursery industry for over 23 years and has served on the Nebraska Certified Nurseryman Committee for over 12 years. He received the Nurseryman of the Year award in 2010 and has been an active member of NNLA since the mid 90’s.

Lee is the owner of Landscape Ink and resides in Union Nebraska with his wife Holly. They work together on his “hobby”, Noslo Farms, field growing landscape trees. In his free time, he loves to escape to the wilderness where cell phones don’t work.

Aaron Oltmans

Aaron Oltmans grew up in the nursery industry. He started work watering trees at Plains Tree Farm in 1986. Throughout high school and college he was involved in production at the nursery, as well as, attending the NNLA show. After graduation from UNL in May of 97 with a BS in Business Administration Aaron worked full time at the nursery and for Plains Tree Farm’s sister company DPM Inc. DPM develops, produces, and markets loader attachments for the Nursery and Landscape industry. Aaron has been involved with every aspect of nursery production from planting to shipping and sales. At DPM he started in sales and marketing but has been involved in product design and testing, material procurement and fabrication, assembly and shipping. Though the entire time with both companies, trade shows have been a focus. Over the course of the last 25 years he has attended and or exhibited at over 160 nursery trade shows across the United States.

ELECTED TO COMPLETE 2018-2020 TERM

Sheila Schrader

Sheila came to Lincoln to study horticulture with an emphasis in landscape design at UNL and decided to stay in the Lincoln area. With her ten years of experience as a designer, Sheila has been able to help many people turn the vision they have for their yards into a reality. Sheila has a passion for educating her clients on how to best care for their landscapes with the least impact on our environment. She loves the opportunity to design rain gardens, bioswales, native landscapes, and pollinator habitats. Since becoming a parent, Sheila has found that she especially loves working with schools and daycare centers to create outdoor spaces for children to learn about and explore nature. She believes that we need to get our children outside making memories that will insure that they become the environmental stewards of the next generation. Sheila continues her education by attending seminars and conferences on a wide variety of horticulture and arborist topics especially rain garden design, plant selection, and installation. She is certified through the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute for paver installation and through the National Concrete Masonry Association for segmental retaining wall installation. She is a certified arborist through the City of Lincoln and a certified member of the Nebraska Arborist Association. Sheila is a member of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. She volunteers in the Village of Malcolm taking care of their parks as a founding member of the Malcolm Garden Club now in its seventh year. Sheila has worked with several state grant programs to plant trees in the Malcolm parks and at Platte River State Park and has helped with the installation of a few NSA Bloom Boxes. She facilitated a pollinator and sensory garden planting at her son’s daycare with matching funds through a City of Lincoln grant program.