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For three decades Jim Notestein has been a leader in the horticulture industry in North Central Florida.

Horticultural Arts & Services

• Arbors & light structures
• Beautification projects
• Bee-friendly landscapes
• Bio-logical pest control
• Bio-regional assessment, design, & installation
• Bird-scaping
• Bonsai
• Butterfly gardening
• Champion tree hunting & celebration
• Coastal landscapes
• Color conscious gardens
• Community food networks
• Concept exploration & development
• Container gardening
• Contract growing
• Eco-tourism
• Edible landscapes
• Farm to family linkage
• Fire-wise landscape & certification
• Fragrance gardens
• Garden coaching
• Gift gardens
• Grass roots organizing
• Green job creation
• Heirloom plants
• Horticultural broadcast media
• Horticultural therapies
• Labyrinths & mazes
• Lawn alternatives
• Landscape restoration
• Light-scaping
• Living fences
• Low-maintenance landscapes
• Network marketing
• Memory gardens
• Performance advocacy
• Sacred gardens
• Secret gardens
• Shady gardens
• Solar-powered air conditioning
• Specimen plants:    Tree-form: Azaleas, Boxwood, Camellias, & Wisteria
• Theme gardens
• Topiary art
• Trademarking
• Water gardens
• Water-wise landscape & certification
• Wildlife friendly gardening
• Xeric gardens
• Yard bells
  

Bonafides - James Edison Notestein

• Fifth-generation Floridian at same home and business locations for 40 years.
• Active with the Florida Native Plant Society.
• Collaborates with Florida Nursery Growers & Landscape Association.
• Collaborates with the Association of Florida Native Nurseries.
• Gainesville civic activist:  Jeffersonian Democracy
• Founding member of Downtown Farmers Market – ‘74
• Contributor to Florida Public Radio:  “The Florida Plant Kingdom”  (broadcast & published for 10 years)
• Facilitated hundreds of small family food gardens.
• Alachua County’s first environmentalist County Commissioner – ’84 – ’88.
• Experienced in propagation, installation, & care of over 200 plant species.  (countless numbers of individuals)
• Natural recipient & cultivator of Michaux’s Orchid -  Habenaria quinqueseta (a rare terrestrial orchid - native to the Coastal Plain Bio-region.)