Some of my early work in designing was small but diversified. After graduating from Cornell University I was hired in June of 1977 with Reasoners, a diversified firm located in Bradenton, Florida. The Owner and President E.S. "Bud" Reasoner was a very well know entrepreneur in Florida. Mr. Reasoner was a Landscape Architect, businessman, board member of a local bank plus many other local and state organizations.
"Bud" started my career by having me design a landscape renovation project for a local Bank. The project was a planting design for the street scape and parking lot areas. Over the next fourteen months I designed over fifty Landscape Architecture projects. The projects included, court yards for single family residences and condos, beach houses on the coast, churches, and other commercial projects. In addition to projects in Florida I helped in designing the layout for Nassau County Plant Show in New York for the firm's display. I also designed a renovation project for a Historical House in Manatee County. While I was in the office of Mr. Bud Reasoner I learned design, tropical plant material, selling, business, management, and that one must be diversified if you are to survive.
In February of 1979 I decided to leave Reasoners and Florida for the Carolina's. The Charlotte, North Carolina region was an area of the country that showed me a long term sustainable growth for many years to come. It was the new Atlanta. It came to pass that March fifth 1979 I packed my 1973 Opel Manta Luxus and moved to Rock Hill, South Carolina. Rock Hill, it was only twenty miles south from Charlotte, North Carolina, the new town where I was to start out on my own.
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