a wee lad growing up in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

 

The pastoral suburb of Trumbull, where he was raised, provided the ideal setting for cultivating such interests, as well as a constellation of others that earned his fascination and enterprise.

 

Patrick's first experiments in cultivation took place on the ample grounds surrounding his family's home, and the lean-to style greenhouse adjoined to it played host to the year-round expansion of both his plant collection and his plant knowledge, which he sought to increase first-hand almost ceaselessly.

 

While his peers plotzed over porn publications pilfered from parents, Patrick was pining over a page in a  Parks Seed Catalogue which presented a preview of perennial plants proffered in the spring pipeline.

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After graduating with a BA in Theatre from Bard College in upstate New York, Patrick relocated to San Francisco, California. Not long after arriving there, however, he found himself even farther afield—teaching English in Brazil. With its dazzling tropical flora, biomorphic architecture, and stunning landscaping displays, it was perhaps here that the seeds of inspiration were planted. It would be almost a decade, however, before they germinated.

 

Returning to San Francisco following this great adventure, and throughout the 1990s, Patrick continued to pursue his many occupational and avocational interests. This included graphic design and layout work for trade publications and advertising agencies, the copy editor position for The Sun Reporter newspaper, and advertising sales for Odyssey Magazine.

 

In 1998, Following the dot-com boom, which forced many of San Francisco's much-celebrated Bohemian set out due to a sharp rise in the cost of living, Patrick relocated to Los Angeles, where he would spend the next 25 years carving out a long sought after career in landscape design in earnest. 

 

There, he received a ground-up tutelage of the trade selling nursery stock for a grower at various farmers markets. This led to small design/install projects until he'd amassed enough clients to fly solo. In time, he would return to academia to pursue accreditation in landscape architecture at UCLA Extension.

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Today, Patrick's knowledge of plants and expertise in landscape design encompass over 30 years of hands-on skills and expertise derived from a combination of formal training, field experience and a passion for doing what he loves.

Since 2000, Patrick has practiced his design craft in a wide variety of conventions and contexts. In addition to project work with individual business and homeowners, he has been exclusively retained by celebrated designers such as Eva Knoppel and Ketti Kupper, as well as in contracted partnerships with housing developers, HALCO, DHA and Peterberg Construction. 

 

Patrick has practiced design in two states: southern California and southeasten and northeasterm Florida, and currently resides in Houston, Texas.