It's amazing how time flies! But when you do what you enjoy, life go's very fast

I first made my mark in the business world in 1989, when I started a small landscape maintenance business here in town called "Gold Coast Green". While I was out bringing home the bacon during the day, I was earning a Landscape Horticulture degree at night from Ventura College.

After selling the maintenance part of the business in 1993, I set out to concentrate on full scale landscape projects because it was the designing process that I really loved. During the time I was designing and installing landscapes, I also worked at a few different nurseries building up my knowledge of plants and working with people that were in the same industry that I so enjoyed. But something was missing.

We have a family cabin in Eldorado Springs Colorado, about 15 min. from Boulder. Having visited there on vacation many times as I was growing up, (and still visit today), I can remember sitting by the creek, which runs right by our cabin, listening to the sound of the water and looking out at the mountains thinking how lucky I am to have a retreat like this to run off to. I always knew that it was water and rockscapes that I wanted to create and incorporate into my landscaping repertoire.

In 1998, I got my chance to create beautiful waterscapes when I met the owner of "Rock-N-Water Creations, in Fillmore, Ca. I worked on a couple of projects with the company and before long, I was off on my own purchasing materials from Rock-N-Water, to use for my own projects. This is when I started FX of Nature.

In the eight years that followed, FX of Nature has installed over 250 water features including some large scale projects that I have been blessed to be a part of. My company also displays our work at six Home and Garden shows a year, as well as three permanent displays here in the Thousand Oaks area.

FX of Nature is now a staple in Ventura County and we take our work very seriously. We know we're not the only Water Garden company out there, so we strive harder than anyone to design and build the best looking, well functioning, low maintenance Water Gardens available.

Kent Boxberger

FX of Nature