Garden & Gun

Kentucky Reverie

Long before he was one of the South’s great garden designers, and before he made his name creating imaginative rooftop terraces for city-dwelling celebrities, Jon Carloftis was just a Kentucky boy gazing out his parents’ car window as they drove through the elms and oaks of Lexington’s Richmond Road. The majestic 1920s homes along the east side of the city were mesmerizing. He had two

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