Megan Proska is the Director of Horticulture at the Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Society in Dallas, Texas. Megan started out with a love for plants at an early age and started volunteering at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas when she was 12. Throughout the years she continued her love for horticulture and went on to receive a B.S. double major in Horticulture and Entomology at Texas A&M University. After graduating she was awarded a fellowship to work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, working in the temperate zone of the nursery for their glasshouse collections. Once back in the States Megan became a certified arborist and worked for a small tree nursery in Fort Worth. Looking to get back into public gardening she started her career at The Dallas Arboretum in 2014 as a supervisor of the Lay Family garden and advancing her career to take on the children’s garden, the trials program, and the main garden. The trials team at the Arboretum take data on over 7000 entries each year and are at the forefront of looking for the best plants to take on the hot Texas climate.