Meet The Owner
James!
You could say I’m a serial entrepreneur. I love business. I love the freedom that comes with being your own boss. But it can be really scary too.
Carving Eden is the first business I ever started. I was landscaping long before I had a website, and long before I was getting paid to do it. For the sheer love of it I would work for free.
After years of people telling me that this was my true calling I finally gave it a go. I built a website and started marketing myself (I have a long history and career in digital marketing). That first summer was amazing but I didn’t manage cash flow very well and in the fall things were looking grim, so I went back to what I knew – Marketing.
A couple years later and a couple successful business ventures later, I found myself once again doing water features and landscape plans for friends and family.
With much more business experience I was able to take on only projects that interested me. I had established enough security that I could be selective. So I decided I would make another go at Landscape Harmony – but this time I was going to be very selective.
Then I started working with other passionate professionals who loved landscaping. And sure enough I was able to do what I love but also employ enough resources to offer full scale landscaping services.
Today I work mostly in the office and take on only portfolio projects that give me the freedom to be as creative as I like. I manage to be on site for 4-6 big projects each season (often spending my holiday time from my other businesses) and I couldn’t be happier.
My love and passion for landscape creations will always be at the core of my being and I hope I get to grow old and grey(er) in the garden.
Lets work together.
Neighborhoods We Service!
- Vanier
- Vanier North
- Cummings
- New Edinburgh
- Sandy Hill
- Byward Market
- The Glebe
- Lindenlea
- Carson Grove
- Old Ottawa South
- Downtown Ottawa
- Centretown
- Hintonburg
- Centeretown West
- Rockliffe
- Elmvale Acres
- Overbrook
- Lowertown
- Forbes
- Faircrest