Bios

President/Sales Manager

Alan recently earned the Distinguished Nursery Professional of the Year Award from the Nebraska Nursery and Landscape Association!  Congratulation, Alan!

Alan Weiss has been the owner of Papio Valley Nursery since it’s inception in 1999.  His humble beginnings in horticulture started with vegetable gardening with his grandfather, Vernon Grimm.  Alan attended the University of Nebraska and graduated with his Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture, Horticulture in 1995. 

Alan worked at Mulhall’s Nursery and Trees, Shrubs and More Nursery after graduation from 1995 through 1997.  Alan accepted a sales position with Sherman Nursery in Charles City, Iowa in the spring of 1997 and he thus began his career in wholesale nursery supply industry. In 1999, Alan founded Papio Valley Nursery in Papillion, Nebraska and has been supplying garden centers and landscapers with plant material to this day. Papio Valley Nursery is a wholesale nursery specializing in container grown perennials, grasses, shrubs and roses. Papio Valley also offers a full line of B & B trees and specialty evergreens. Alan’s wife, Rita joined the Papio Valley team in 2000 and has been very involved with the family business ever since. 

Alan and Rita have three children, Lillian, Elijah and Ryan.  When Alan isn’t working or attending his children’s sporting events, he enjoys fishing and going to Nebraska football games with his wife. Alan’s parents, Kathy and Ron Weiss are also very involved with the nursery.  

Christine Karloff is a plant physiologist residing in Omaha, Nebraska.  She spent a year with the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum before taking a position with the Nebraska Forest Service and the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL).  During her career with the Nebraska Forest Service, she studied with the current state forester, with whom she published Woody Floral Production, a complete guide to growing and marketing woody floral products in the Midwest.  The publication was the foundation of her thesis, Accessing Color Change in Woody Floral Stems of Cornus and Salix Species Used in the Floral Industry. The thesis earned her a master’s degree in horticulture from UNL with an emphasis in plant physiology.  Christine also earned her Bachelor’s degree in horticulture from UNL with an emphasis in both landscape design and plant science at which time she became a Nebraska Certified Nurseryman (NCN).  She has since done consulting positions for the University of Nebraska forest ecology department, The National Arbor Day Foundation, and Nature Hills Nursery.  Christine’s philosophies promote sustainability, conservation, and stewardship in the landscape.   Foremost among her ambitions is to help nursery professionals and the green industry to better understand the importance of native ornamentals and “reconciliation ecology”.  She was recently appointed to the NNLA Board of Directors.

Office Manager

Phone: (402) 510-2935
Fax: (402) 505-3421