Creatively designed, lovingly planted, and meticulously maintained.
Norm Arnold is president and CEO of Glorious Gardens, Inc. Simply put, Norm has an innate sense of dynamics and composition. His formal education in advertising and commercial photography helped hone this talent. After graduating The University of Texas at Austin, Norm worked first as a freelance photographer, then opened a studio, then created an advertising agency that specialized in print media.
Additionally, Norm pursued fine art photography. He studied the Ansel Adam's Zone System and attended a Yosemite Workshop and other black & white seminars that focused on the Southwest.
Combining his professional design skills with his passion for gardening has proved to be a winning combination. Not only does he design gardens, but he also writes articles and photographs gardens, designs the advertising and marketing materials for the company, and designed and produced this website. He also manages to create some pretty interesting walls in some of his gardens.
But it was his color work, photographing walls, that landed gallery exhibits and resulted in his commission to photograph the ultimate wall, the Berlin wall in 1989 as it was being torn down. To this day, photographing walls continues to be an obsession which he unfortunately rarely finds the time to indulge.
Norm is a native Houstonian who has gardened here since childhood. He decided to make his hobby a full-time business in 1993 and incorporated Glorious Gardens in 1996. He furthered his horticultural education over the years through past involvement in the Harris County Master Gardening program and the Texas Nurserymens Association where he achieved Master Certification.
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