Brent Markus
Founder at InstantHedge
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Markus is a horticulture entrepreneur and founder with 8+ years leading innovative nursery and landscaping ventures from Portland, Oregon. He founded InstantHedge to commercialize a Dutch-inspired, biodegradable boxed pre-formed hedge solution and oversees production of over 400,000 trees, bringing a manufacturing mindset to plant retail. Brent also runs Rare Tree Nursery and Conifer Kingdom, supplying specialty Japanese maples, dwarf conifers and unusual specimens to garden centers and landscapers across North America. Trained at Cornell with advanced degrees in landscape architecture and ornamental horticulture, he blends deep academic expertise with hands-on propagation, design, and mail-order retail operations. Less obvious: he has scaled both boutique specimen sourcing and high-volume production channels, demonstrating an uncommon ability to bridge artisanal plant selection with repeatable, shippable products.
8 years of coding experience
Master's of Science, Ornamental Horticulture, Master's of Science, Ornamental Horticulture at Cornell University
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
root-not-sudo/pyplay
Mar 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
root-not-sudo/zmk-config
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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