Dorrie Rosen is educated in both horticulture and landscape architecture. She is familiar with indoor/tropical houseplants, as well as native and introduced ornamental trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, their botanical names, identification, and growing requirements.

As a registered landscape architect, she has extensive field experience in design and construction and has worked on wetland restoration, landscape preservation, flower garden design, urban tree planting, and Xeriscape landscape techniques.

For the past eight years Dorrie has served as Plant Information Specialist at The New York Botanical Garden.