It was my grandmother
who first opened my heart to the hidden wild rubies of the garden. She sparked my curiosity, creativity, and attention to detail. Today I’m a lifelong student of botany, garden design, and the ecological poetry found in our regional flora and fauna. Professional plantsman with a fun but simple mission: Plant life! For beauty. For children. For birds.
I cut my teeth in horticulture working for the past decade alongside master gardeners, in plant nurseries where I helped to propagate, arrange, implement, and maintain garden installations across the Mid-South.
In 2023, I participated on a dream project at the Memphis Botanic Garden with the horticulture team in laying out and planting new meadow gardens (10,000+ plants installed) designed by Claudia West and Thomas Rainer, co-authors of Planting in a Post Wild World.
Coursework includes design classes (New Naturalism Academy for Landscape Design Professionals taught by Kelly Norris), workshops (Garden Masterclass with Noel Kingsbury; Perennial Plant Association). Actively follow research and literature in my field: design, ecology, and botany. I’m passionate about conservation and gardening with grasses and plants that benefit our wildlife.
See some of our portfolio with before and after work!
“Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
—Mary Oliver