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About Gary
As a graduate horticulturist with years of experience, Gary Alan’s quality work has brought outstanding recognition in the field of horticulture. When considering a path at the beginning of his career Gary knew that his desire to work outdoors would narrow his career choices. He learned that the University of Florida had a program offering a Major in Ornamental Horticulture. With that, his goal was set!
In 1979, just one term before graduating, Walt Disney World recruited some students to their Tree Farm Nursery in preparation of the EPCOT project soon to begin. Gary was selected to be part of this team.
After obtaining his Bachelor of Science in Ornamental Horticulture, it was back to Disney World to begin his career.
After several years of valuable experience at Disney World, Gary realized that his true desire was to practice the design aspect of landscaping.
Soon after returning to his home town of Jacksonville, Florida, he started a design company which grew to encompass installation, irrigation and maintenance. He began filming his projects and caught the eye of the then beginning Home and Garden TV network, and with that “The Designers Landscape” show was born. At it’s peak, it was seen on HGTV and PBS stations around the US and in syndication around the world.
Gary continues to run his landscaping business in Jacksonville, as well as filming new episodes of shows for distribution here on the web! He welcomes your comments and tries to answer as many questions as possible.
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I've been watching all your YouTube videos to get an idea on how to do my landscaping but to be honest I dont have a fraction of your knowledge or creativity.. I would appreciate some tips on what to do..
I'm inspired
Makes me want to get out there and beautify our driveway area right NOW! (Even in 40-degree pouring rain!)
I live in South East Texas and Lantana loves our climate. There is one named Dallas, it especially loves our climate. It's flowers are fire engine red around the perimeter and the inner flowers are the golden yellow. Absolutely stunning. I mix it with the white and the golden yellow, all across the front edge of my gardens. It returns each year and they grow to huge masses. When I need to buy more — usually because I expand the size of the garden — I buy the small 2" or 4" pot sizes, and literally by early summer they are filling in and becoming one solid hedge of color. My goal is to fill my entire front lawn with gardens. Also, my red Dallas Lantana pulls in the humming birds. They can not resist the red! And the butterflies literally flock to my yard after the lantana. I also grow a purple passion flower vine to feed the butterfly caterpillars. They love eating the leaves. It grows and vines up the side of my porch and last year we had a butterfly hatchery as caterpillar cocoons were attached to the eaves of the porch and we were able to watch them hatch. Amazing.
It would be great to have an Aerial view with a drone to see the curves and effects of the colors and textures!
I would love to see some of these properties later when the landscape is matured. Are there any videos like that?
Thank you so much Gary for sharing your great ideas and useful concepts in landscape design!!
I am so grateful for you Gary… You have had the biggest impact in landscaping in my life everything I do in the yard… Honestly it’s because of you