Profile
Miguel Pons, Caracas Venezuela 1961, developed a strong passion for plants, gardening, design and architecture very early in life. Guided by his grandfather a renowned plant collector and his father an Avant-garde modernist architect Pons’s learned the importance of balancing scale, texture and colors when creating landscape spaces.
After graduating in Agricultural Engineering Miguel moved to New York and started working in an upscale plant store on Manhattan’s Upper Westside called ‘Natural Surroundings’. There he met horticulturist, Jane Gil, who quickly became his mentor and encouraged Miguel to start his own company. Finally in 1996 Miguel Pons Landscaping LLC was created in order to satisfy a small international clientele.
