KETTLER GARDENS

Kettler Gardens is the work of Alan Clifford Kettler, who began digging in sandboxes at the age of 5. At the age of six, he advanced to the next level of digging by vegetable gardening in Annapolis, Maryland in rock hard clay, with no mulch, no water, and lots of pesticides. Friendly box turtles invaded his tomato patch to munch on juicy ripe tomatoes... In college, he furthered his knowledge of plants by studying agricultural ecology, ethnobotany, economic botany, soil science, and the environment as a whole... With over thirty years of experience working in southwestern Pennsylvania and several years working in New England, Mr. Kettler has had the opportunity to create landscapes and study the growing habits of hundreds of plants. This practice has given him the knowledge to know what plants are both hardy and beautiful, so that his gardens can thrive as living works of art to enhance and enrich the places where people live and work.

Primary location: Cumberland United States