I won a giant pumpkin growing contest at 12 and studied in the Vo-ag program in high school. I earned a bachelor's degree in Horticulture from UCONN. I worked at a prestigious nursery after college where I felt like a square peg in a round hole. I didn't want to do the status quo and "bang out" jobs. I wanted to create beauty and function. I wanted to do things better!When discussing your design ask, "Why?" When discussing plant selections ask, "Why?" When discussing the type of mulch to use ask, "Why?" Asking why repeatedly gets you a lot of information.
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John W. Holden has been designing landscapes and providing landscape contracting services in Fairfield County, Connecticut for over 26 years. John started his career while attending Trumbull High School, mowing lawns in the Long Hill section of Trumbull. At Trumbull High, John studied in the Vocational Agriculture Program, where he learned about horticulture and farming while raising pigs, turkeys and chickens. In 1992, John graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Ornamental Horticulture.
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Deborah Casey
Jun 24, 2017
This review is long overdue, however, I wanted to rave about John's work. He gave us a fair estimate of his work beforehand and gave us options for the work we wanted. His design of the plantings in front of our house was beautiful and the end result was even better. He spent a lot of time making sure we knew how to care for our new plants. I would highly recommend him and have a new project for this coming spring for which I will be calling him again.
