A pollinator haven made up of native plants.
A moonlit walkway of scented night-blooming flowers.
A culinary Eden steps from your back door.
A cutting garden to fill your home with scent and color
Mozingo Gardens is here to help you dream up a home garden that is beautiful, useful, and ecologically beneficial.
Who We Are
Mark Mozingo
Raised by gardeners, “green thumbs,” and plant lovers, Mark fell in love with nature from an early age. Growing up in Winchester, Kentucky, Mark was always playing in the family’s vegetable garden where he was given his own little patch for experimenting, or at the farm scouting for deer, while his father quizzed him on the names of the various trees and plants they would come across. Mark found an early fascination with growing unique plants and gardening techniques from neighbor “Mr. Charlie,” who introduced him to such wonders as alpine strawberries, vermiculture, and medicinal herbs. His grandmothers were all “green thumbs” and instilled in him an appreciation for flowers, food preservation, and cooking.
After living in New York City for almost a decade, he returned to KY and reconnected with nature in a big way, creating a rooftop garden in his small Winchester apartment until finding a blank canvas in his husband’s backyard in downtown Lexington. With an eye towards sustainability and environmentally conscious gardening practices, Mark’s lifelong passion for digging in the dirt has now come to fruition with Mozingo Gardens.
Paul Brown
Paul started gardening as a 10-year-old in Western Kentucky after convincing his parents to let him flip a 4 x 8 section of sod in their back lawn to fill with cherry tomatoes, and the smell of a tomato leaf still brings him right back to that time. Although he pursued Biology in college, it wasn’t until a Field Botany course in his senior year that he garnered a real appreciation for all things green and wild. There he was introduced to Kentucky’s spring ephemerals like dwarf larkspur, toad trillium, trout lily, and squirrel corn. Since 2018, he has gardened vegetables and flowers in a community plot and, more recently and with the help of his partner Jack, has transformed the lawn and backyard of his Lexington home into a native and edible-focused greenscape. It was this project, started in 2020, that pushed him to educate himself more deeply in horticulture, the benefits of native plantings, and the necessity of ecologically reparative gardening practices.