Meet Our Bloggers

Mike Garcia, founder of Enviroscape Inc. in Redondo Beach, Calif., currently serves as on the board of directors for California Landscape Contractors Association and Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden as well as an advisor to International Professional Pond Contractors Association. On this blog, Garcia discusses significant trends and issues within the pond and water garden world and generates conversation among professional peers.

Garcia began his career in ornamental horticulture more than 25 years ago as a licensed contractor. Since then, he has earned his Certified Professional Pond Contractor certification and holds a National Association of Pond Professionals certification in pond building.

Under his leadership, Enviroscape has won local, state, national and international landscape awards from associations including NAPP, IPPCA and CLCA. Garcia's work has been featured in Landscaper Magazine, Pondkeeper Magazine, Water Garden News, Ponds Magazine, Landscape Contractor and South Bay Homes and Gardens, and it has appeared on HGTV's Landscaper's Challenge and ABC's Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. Read the blog »

Englishman Trevor Cole immigrated to the United States in 1992, bringing his landscape experience and his passions for birding and pond keeping. After several years of operating a small retail water garden store called Pond Wise out of his landscape offices, Cole decided to expand the business to include not only ponds, filters, fish and aquatic plants, but to encompass all aspects of nature and outdoor living with garden gifts, statuary, pottery, birding supplies, rocks and bulk landscape materials.

He now owns two Across the Pond retail water garden stores in Huntsville and Florence, Alabama, with his wife, Jeannie. The couple travel extensively to lecture as well as to explore the different cultures of the water gardening and fish keeping industries. Through this blog, Cole shares his discoveries and experiences with fellow professionals. Read the blog »