Nature is fascinating. Nature has been a constant throughout my life, despite its ever changing state. Nature has fed my imagination and curiosity. Something which has not died through the years. 

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Some of my earliest memories are being outside - helping care for the vegetable garden we had, with removing the large green caterpillars that love tomato plants, picking the shed skin of cicadas off pine trees, and holding a couple of adults in my hand, plus exploring the various botanical gardens my dad took the family and I to.

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Fast forward, I have worked on a landscape maintenance crew for a little over 7 years and graduated with my Bachelor of Applied Horticulture and Minor in Environmental Studies at Kent State University. I am now working as a horticulturist at Longwood Gardens. I started off pulling weeds and mulching, but that soon changed into watering, planting, and eventually hedge trimming and tree pruning. Now I am designing new gardens or redesigning those that I have worked on through the years as the ones featured here.

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This is only the start. I am excited to get the chance to grow my experience and knowledge through all the projects I'll eventually get to be a part of.