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Jon Carloftis used mirrored lattice to create the illusion of a larger space in this city garden.
Immediately, you leave the regular behind, and you’re Farris. "We called on him to help design a garden, and
on to something else," he says. in typical fashion he went well beyond that, coming
Recently, his walkway greeted 40 guests at a bourbon here three times to plan and install the garden and do-
tasting party he threw. And every May his Pennsylvania nating all the plants."
home is the setting for a Derby Party. "I’m always pro- "Growing up, giving back was a priority with my
moting Kentucky," he says. And he means it. family," Carloftis says. "ln the end, you can be very suc-
Carloftis comes back to Kentucky at least once a cessful, but if you don’t give back, it doesn’t mean a
month to work in the garden store he runs with his thing."
mother, the Rockcastle River Trading Company, which Carloftis finds inspiration for new garden design
is on the grounds of their home in Livingston.Visitors ideas everywhere —- even in how the furniture of an in-
can stroll the family’s acres of gardens, including the terior room may be arranged. Still, there is one special
vegetable and herb garden, which is one of his favorites. place that’s his touchstone. "lt’s called the Rockcastle
Between his hectic gardening and lecture schedule, River," he says. "I can go back, and really get inspired
Carloftis makes giving back to his home state a priority. real quick."
He recently donated his time and materials to design And that inspiration, in turn, finds root in a garden.
gardens for Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, UK’s Ar- "I always tell people when you have a career where
boretum, and the University of the Cumberlands (for- you are beautifying the world, you’re doing well," he
merly Cumberland College). This summer, he will speak says.
at several area fund—raising events as well.  
"Jon has always been a very special friend of the ar- Robin Roenker ’98 AS is a freelance writer in Lexington.
boretum and UK,” says arboretum director Marcia
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