A few blocks from Rupp Arena in the heart of downtown behind a stone wall sits the historic home of award-winning, landscape designer Jon Carloftis.
The 60-year-old Carloftis is a tenth-generation Kentuckian who grew up in Rockcastle County near the Daniel Boone National Forest. He recalls as a child that his family had no television but lots of books to discover and nature everywhere.
Carloftis says the outdoors became his classroom. “We played outside. And that's what we did. I learned nature. I love and to this day, when I come home, and people know this, I don't go inside. Now I've been working all day long. I don't go inside until it's dark till I have to. I mean, I'll come in and change clothes. I gotta be outside all the time.”
