Who we are...
and where we've been...
Gregg Catanese
started this business in 1981, by providing residential
landscape maintenance services in Saratoga and Los Gatos. We quickly
grew to include and several large condominium and commercial
complexes and the City Of Saratoga as regular clients.
He started installing
irrigation systems after obtaining a
California contractors license in 1988. We branched out into
landscape renovations and added low voltage outdoor lighting
systems in 1989 after attending a seminar led by Bill Locklin.
The maintenance
division was sold to two former employees in 1996.
Gregg traces
his start in horticulture to 1974, and the Ornamental
Horticulture program at the San Jose Regional Vocational Center.
Gregg earned an award for outstanding achievement in O.H. in 1975
while in high school.
In 1976,
Gregg entered an apprentice program at the Saratoga
Community Garden where he worked and studied organic gardening for 2
years.
He helped found
Mayfair Community Garden in San Jose in 1978, and later
headed a small crew who worked to preserve and
restore the (sadly) short-lived Nelson Gardens in
Saratoga.
Gregg has studied
horticulture at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, and Cabrillo
College in Aptos.
He is a past president
and education chairman of the San Jose Landscape Gardeners
Association, a former delegate to the Professional Gardeners
Federation Of Northern California, and a former member of the
advisory board for Foothill College's Ornamental Horticulture
program.
Gregg would like to
take a moment to thank a long list of friends,
influences and occasional mentors, some living and some passed on,
including (in no particular order) Roy Barsotti, Ray Chew,
Frank Schiavo, Brian Gage, Louis Saso, Perley Payne, Dan McGrath,
Tanso Ishihara, Charles Griffin, George Masamori, Chuck Konigsberg,
Bob Will, Richard Merrill, Glenn Matsumoto, Bill Locklin, Irv
Harding, Fred Sugimoto and Geri Roe.
Thank you my friends for
sharing your knowledge, your skills and your
support. |