| Houseplants dress up interiors with greenery
I wasn't one of those people," said the renowned garden designer. "I thought of 'The Golden Girls.' I just thought of them as 1970s. It wasn't very cool to me."
These days, however, Carloftis is a changed man.
His new book, "Beyond the Windowsill," explains not just how to grow beautiful houseplants successfully, but how to use them effectively and dramatically as home accents.
New houseplant introductions and a yearning for year-round gardening started Carloftis down the indoor gardening path, and he's never looked back.
"There's something about a living thing in a room," he said. "Put a living, beautiful plant on your dining room table that's gorgeous and see what it does to that room."
Now a garden designer for celebrities such as Julianne Moore and Edward Norton as well as the family of Estee Lauder and Sotheby's auction house, Carloftis has been featured in numerous magazines, including Martha Stewart Living, for his way with indoor and outdoor garden design.
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