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ixty-six-year-old landscape architect Raymond
Jungles is at the pinnacle of his profession. Sought
after around the world for his exuberant gardens
chock full of native plants, his eponymous firm has
dozens of projects in the works at any given time,
ranging from billionaires' properties to public parks,
in his hometown of Miami and as far away as China.
But when the pandemic lockdown put life on
pause in March 2020, Jungles did what comes
naturally to him; he grabbed a shovel and started
digging up the yard of his own house, which had
been languishing because he was always so busy
doing other people's gardens that he never had time
to work on his own.
"I'm a maker, I'm a doer," he says. "I like to see
things built."
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The Ventana de la
Montaña garden in
Monterrey, Mexico
takes its name from the
commanding vistas.
Below, Jungles in his
Coconut Grove studio.
PHOTO
BY
STEPHEN
DUNN
