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For over thirty years, award-winning Jon Carloftis Fine Gardens has designed and installed beautiful and functional residential and commercial outdoor living spaces.

Garden design ranging from sprawling horse farms to small in-town backyards, mixing it up and making it interesting.

Services include Garden Design, Landscape Design, Rooftop Garden Design, and Installation

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TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY Although it feels like the

TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY Although it feels like the dead of winter the past few days, with wrecks galore this morning after a dusting of snow overnight, SPRING is a coming down the track. My wonderful clients and friends @meredithfee @jordyenglish sent me these photos from when their darling baby Noelle was here at Botherum for some photos by the super talented @meagencphotography Plus, seeing the LOVE of my life, Lily Carloftis, made it even sweeter…she always took over a situation! 🥰 What do you think of this transformation? #carloftisstyle #transformationtuesday #transformation #beforeandafter #botherum #walledgarden #whitegarden #preservation #garden #gardendesigner #lexington #spring

LIFE IS PRECIOUS, just like my little BABES, and t

LIFE IS PRECIOUS, just like my little BABES, and there is so much out there to see and enjoy, all for free, no less. Funny things are happening on a daily basis. My wonderful next-door neighbors, Ellen Rosamum is head of the English department @universityofky and her husband David Youngblood is everyone’s favorite teacher (English, too) @sayreschool so when they texted, saying Baby Mags had escaped through the gate again, I ran next door to RETRIEVE, (pun intended) and after telling them I’m trying my best to fatten her up so she can’t “slither” through the gate, it hit me… when these English teacher folks stopped and stared at me. Yes, I am 💯 that WITCH from Hansel and Gretel. 😩😂 Well, better own what you are, and be HAPPY with it! #lifeisgood #saturday #saturdayvibes #saturdaymotivation #botherum #funny #neighbors

BABY MAGS (that’s MISS Magnolia Carloftis to you

BABY MAGS (that’s MISS Magnolia Carloftis to you!👊) is going to drive poor Gertie and I crazy. She is SO SMART, so ADORABLE and so MESSY with her toys that she is a walking, no, running/jumping/flipping pig sty. I tell her about everyday, “Young lady, if you pee in this house one more time, I’ve got a truck outside, idling, wasting precious fuel, just ready to TAKE you back to that damn orphanage!” How do parents (especially mothers who are with them all day, everyday) do it? Truly, ya can’t let her out of your sight for a second. She’s a real menace to society all day long, but at night, she curls up under my left arm and sleeps like the baby she is…. Dreamy. All day long, we “talk” to each other with our eyes, just like Lily Carloftis. With ‘Lil, we could go to a party together like best friends, if I just gave her one look, no command, she would eat up anybody I didn’t like. 👊 This one is going to be the same. 🥰🥰🥰. #magnoliacarloftis #magnolia #babymags #mags #preciousangelinfantessa #mygirl #babygirl #carloftisstyle #love #labrador #labradorretriever #yellowlab #yellowlabrador #labsofinstagram #dog #dogsofinstagram #sweet #adorable

“YA EITHER GOT IT OR YA AIN’T” was one of Da

“YA EITHER GOT IT OR YA AIN’T” was one of Daddy’s favorite sayings. Being the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew all wrapped up in one, I would say, “Sounds easy, so you are born with it and don’t have to do anything else?” He would say, “Nope, you have to LEARN how to do it, be HONEST, WORK like a damn dawg, be a GENTLEMAN, take care of your FAMILY, and wait on your Momma and pretty sisters hand and foot! (This was the LAW in our house) Don’t piss it away and think you are better than anybody else. Ya gotta WORK for it. 💪🇺🇸” He wasn’t kidding. He was 33 and she was 19 when they married. He was 50 when I was born, and even though I was not his favorite like I was with Ruby, Momma and sister Koula, as it turns out, we are just alike. Obsessed with “bidness”, being the best, loving nature, adoring his powerful mother and my mother. He would also say, “Don’t let them know you are smart, let them think you are from the mountains with no education or manners…watch which ones fall for it and then SOCK it to ‘em!👊”. My Daddy was really smart and have thought about him all day today. Do you ever have those days where you remember things that happened decades ago? It’s been such a good and successful day of work. 💪💪💪 #carloftisstyle #daddy #rhodes #mullins #pinevilleky #leader #lesliecounty #kentucky #workethic #proud #respect #family #protecter #boss #thebest #easternkentucky #raisedright #manners #lucky

CONGRATULATIONS to my Big Sis Don Carcille Carloft

CONGRATULATIONS to my Big Sis Don Carcille Carloftis-Burchette @carcillec.burchette who is now the president of the National Garden Club of Kentucky and was just chosen to be Director of the South Atlantic States starting in May. “Priscilla” in my phone contacts, “Cha-Cha” to all the older siblings, was/is the LEADER of our family. She would NEVER tell ya that she was Valedictorian of Livingston and Valedictorian of @ucumberlands was teacher of the year in Kentucky, started the Gifted&Talented at Corbin (they were 3 or 4 in the state, even against those big ole Catholic schools in Louisville where there is still such a thang as discipline!💪🇺🇸 and if I had a child, they would be going right there to learn, ‘cause there are repercussions to being a problem AND an idiot 👊) She was runner up, Miss Congeniality and Miss Maid of Spring in the 1969 Miss Kentucky pageant, but only I would say that out loud, because she is too busy WORKING, making things BETTER, being a loving ROLE MODEL to thousands of kids she has taught over the years. Carcille was pre-med, got accepted to anywhere she applied, but decided last minute to become a math teacher, and really found where she could make big changes. She is almost 16 years older than me, came out of the womb as an adult, according to Momma and Daddy (she was on their level to all of us, not a big sister) and took care of us, including Momma, who was a real pill to deal with, INDEPENDENT, a pure QUEEN and non-compliant, who ran all over Brother Buzz and Sister Betsy, but not Carcille or me. We are bookends, not afraid to jump in and take care of ere’thang, oldest and youngest, she’s the shortest and I’m the tallest, she’s the SMARTEST and I’m the dumbest, yet we run the damn world. Don’t need accolades, we are too busy working, making it happen. 💪💪💪🥰🇺🇸. I LOVE her so much. #leader #leadership #carloftisstyle #bigsister #siblings #family #love #respect #worker #workethic #boss #bosslady #thebest #kentucky #inspiration #proud #congratulations @nationalgarden #beautiful #strong #smart #workaholic

“EVA DESTRUCTION” what a crazy night with the

“EVA DESTRUCTION” what a crazy night with the wind storm. It would not let up, the way I am with dirt in the mornings, with my beloved Windex. 🥰👊👊👊 Whatever MISS MOTHER NATURE decides to do, we have to roll with it. Not putting low-voltage wire in conduit for outdoor lighting is something we have control of, putting the cap back on the toothpaste is something we have control of, rinsing off plates before they are put in to the “super expensive fancy/No rinse dishwasher” is something we have control of, (common sense is what separates us from the Neanderthals) but WEATHER we don’t have any control, so feeling very lucky this morning. I’ve always loved Greek Revival since a baby, (Momma would say to me, “Honey, you would love in outhouse if it had columns on it!” I would say, “yes ma’am, I sure would ) but the Ginkgo tree from the 1830’s is really why I bought Botherum. 🙏🇺🇸 #storm #tornado #lucky #tree #trees #lexingtonky #mothernature #blessed #unitedstates #unitedstatesofamerica

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TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY Although it feels like the

TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY Although it feels like the dead of winter the past few days, with wrecks galore this morning after a dusting of snow overnight, SPRING is a coming down the track. My wonderful clients and friends @meredithfee @jordyenglish sent me these photos from when their darling baby Noelle was here at Botherum for some photos by the super talented @meagencphotography Plus, seeing the LOVE of my life, Lily Carloftis, made it even sweeter…she always took over a situation! 🥰 What do you think of this transformation? #carloftisstyle #transformationtuesday #transformation #beforeandafter #botherum #walledgarden #whitegarden #preservation #garden #gardendesigner #lexington #spring

LIFE IS PRECIOUS, just like my little BABES, and t

LIFE IS PRECIOUS, just like my little BABES, and there is so much out there to see and enjoy, all for free, no less. Funny things are happening on a daily basis. My wonderful next-door neighbors, Ellen Rosamum is head of the English department @universityofky and her husband David Youngblood is everyone’s favorite teacher (English, too) @sayreschool so when they texted, saying Baby Mags had escaped through the gate again, I ran next door to RETRIEVE, (pun intended) and after telling them I’m trying my best to fatten her up so she can’t “slither” through the gate, it hit me… when these English teacher folks stopped and stared at me. Yes, I am 💯 that WITCH from Hansel and Gretel. 😩😂 Well, better own what you are, and be HAPPY with it! #lifeisgood #saturday #saturdayvibes #saturdaymotivation #botherum #funny #neighbors

BABY MAGS (that’s MISS Magnolia Carloftis to you

BABY MAGS (that’s MISS Magnolia Carloftis to you!👊) is going to drive poor Gertie and I crazy. She is SO SMART, so ADORABLE and so MESSY with her toys that she is a walking, no, running/jumping/flipping pig sty. I tell her about everyday, “Young lady, if you pee in this house one more time, I’ve got a truck outside, idling, wasting precious fuel, just ready to TAKE you back to that damn orphanage!” How do parents (especially mothers who are with them all day, everyday) do it? Truly, ya can’t let her out of your sight for a second. She’s a real menace to society all day long, but at night, she curls up under my left arm and sleeps like the baby she is…. Dreamy. All day long, we “talk” to each other with our eyes, just like Lily Carloftis. With ‘Lil, we could go to a party together like best friends, if I just gave her one look, no command, she would eat up anybody I didn’t like. 👊 This one is going to be the same. 🥰🥰🥰. #magnoliacarloftis #magnolia #babymags #mags #preciousangelinfantessa #mygirl #babygirl #carloftisstyle #love #labrador #labradorretriever #yellowlab #yellowlabrador #labsofinstagram #dog #dogsofinstagram #sweet #adorable

“YA EITHER GOT IT OR YA AIN’T” was one of Da

“YA EITHER GOT IT OR YA AIN’T” was one of Daddy’s favorite sayings. Being the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew all wrapped up in one, I would say, “Sounds easy, so you are born with it and don’t have to do anything else?” He would say, “Nope, you have to LEARN how to do it, be HONEST, WORK like a damn dawg, be a GENTLEMAN, take care of your FAMILY, and wait on your Momma and pretty sisters hand and foot! (This was the LAW in our house) Don’t piss it away and think you are better than anybody else. Ya gotta WORK for it. 💪🇺🇸” He wasn’t kidding. He was 33 and she was 19 when they married. He was 50 when I was born, and even though I was not his favorite like I was with Ruby, Momma and sister Koula, as it turns out, we are just alike. Obsessed with “bidness”, being the best, loving nature, adoring his powerful mother and my mother. He would also say, “Don’t let them know you are smart, let them think you are from the mountains with no education or manners…watch which ones fall for it and then SOCK it to ‘em!👊”. My Daddy was really smart and have thought about him all day today. Do you ever have those days where you remember things that happened decades ago? It’s been such a good and successful day of work. 💪💪💪 #carloftisstyle #daddy #rhodes #mullins #pinevilleky #leader #lesliecounty #kentucky #workethic #proud #respect #family #protecter #boss #thebest #easternkentucky #raisedright #manners #lucky