Roland Oehme has spent his life being passionate about the natural world, living a healthy lifestyle, and bringing humankind closer to nature. To fulfill his desire to see and understand his passions he has lived his life as healthily and naturally as possible. When interacting with people he uses every opportunity to share his love of nature and healthy living. His passions have fueled a great amount of research by reading, talking to inspiring people, experimenting and using cutting edge ideas of his own or others in his daily life, and by traveling to many parts of the world for ideas and to understand the world's societies.

Europe, especially Germany, has been a source of great inspiration for Roland. The compact, walkable cities and towns with lively public squares, numerous beautiful public parks, and many bicycle facilities are wonderful models to follow. Great city projects are being completed today. For example once one of the most polluted cities in Europe, Bitterfeld is in the process of completely turning itself around into a model of green and recreational rich city with large, clean lakes at its periphery, where once huge open pit coal mines lay deep, with healthy forests and miles of well used bike trails. In recent years Roland experienced amazing roof gardens in Stuttgart , swimming ponds near Chemnitz , and some of the world's best, yet unknown, flower shows in numerous German cities. Roland thinks that surely there is an opportunity to learn from the European example to revitalize our cities and live a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle benefiting us and the environment, all the more necessary as we become all the more aware of global warming dire consequences.

Naturally, growing up the son of a famed landscape architect, Wolfgang Oehme, who designed natural gardens of sublime beauty and presence, and who loves plants and wildlife, brought Roland a great appreciation of nature at a young age and imbued him with and uncanny sense of design. His father mentored Roland in his office, but mostly out in the field of many of his father's firms' job sites learning how all of the elements fit together into a cohesive whole on the landscape. After high school, Roland successfully completed an intensive two year Landscape Architecture internship in Stuttgart, Germany. In school and on a firm's landscape construction crew he worked in all areas of landscape construction, maintenance, and horticulture where he most notably worked on roofgardens, ponds, natural stone and concrete paver walkways, patios, and walls. Next Roland obtained his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from a five year program at the University of Georgia at Athens at the pioneering School of Environmental Design . Then Roland worked in Maryland designing native plants gardens and dealt with how to embrace pedestrian safety from mass transit centers. For five years Roland in California on unique designs cemeteries, nnovative housing developments with xeriscape plantings and large areas of preserved wild landscapes, as well as sustainably focused private gardens and college campuses. Lately, since beginning his own firm, he has developed innovative concepts like xeriscape mounds and complete spectrum edible gardens that are in a natural balance with ornamental plants.

Roland started Green Harmony Design to concentrate on changing the face of American landscapes that will invite people to live healthier, more fulfilling lives by bringing humanity closer to nature in a setting of unparalleled beauty and style, allowing all to thrive in endless joy!