About
Georgia has had a winding road to garden and landscape design but the path has been eventful and insightful and has shaped her both personally and professionally with many skills, lessons, and a drive to learn and work and see projects to fruition.
Having grown up on a cattle and horse ranch outside of San Angelo, Texas, the love for the outdoors is deep for Georgia as she was a 5th generation farmer in Texas. One grandfather, Bill Helwig, was a cotton farmer and gin manager for 30 years, and raised a small herd of Hereford Cattle. Her other Grandfather, Eddie Huckabee, was a wheat farmer with a small herd of Black Angus Cattle. Her dad, Todd Huckabee, had a cattle ranch and grew winter wheat for grazing, as well as rodeoed on the side, participating in team roping events, calf roping, and steer wrestling. Almost all generations had large gardens at one time or another and Georgia learned about landscaping from her parents who had beautiful properties landscaped by themselves. She learned then about Texas natives and pollinator friendly plant species after her parents researched endlessly to create their beautiful gardens. They DIYed many projects and instilled that work ethic in Georgia from an early age.
Georgia was also very active in 4-H and FFA, participating on the Livestock Judging Team and showing market lambs and breeding ewes at various Texas Livestock Shows. After her high school graduation, Georgia studied nursing, graduating in 2010 and began working at a hospital as a Registered Nurse while her husband, Jordan, served in the Army in Killeen, TX. Around that same time, Georgia began learning about gardening and landscaping, which started her interest and passion for growing plants.
Over the next 8 years, she learned more and more about plants and then found the cut flower industry around the same time her daughter, Sedona, was born. While in-between caring for a baby, she began to study all she could about growing cut flowers specifically, as she loved having fresh flowers in the home but couldn’t afford to buy them each week and just wasn’t happy with what was available at the grocery store. Thus began the journey to start a flower farm so she could grow thousands of blooms to share with the community.
For almost five years, she, her family, and her team worked to build one of the top flower farms in the state with growing over forty different varieties of flowers and hosting over a thousand people per year through a variety of events. Georgia and her team designed for weddings and local events, and harvested and sold thousands of blooms each week to wonderful clients in the region. The farm closed in early 2022.
Now, Georgia has returned to her roots and is pursuing garden and landscape design. Her passion is to create a peaceful oasis for her clients, using unique plants that are not mass produced in the landscaping industry. Just as she researched and pushed the “boundaries” of flower farming, she wants to do that with her clients. She was known for being a “trailblazer” in the flower farming industry especially for southern farming, and proved that many plants could be grown here quite successfully in addition to pivoting and kept the farm running throughout the COVID shutdowns and many environmental curve balls that were thrown at her and her team.
There is a lot of new research and new plant varieties available that even though are not mass produced and sold locally, they can still be grown here very easily in our difficult growing environment with a little bit of education and effort. Georgia will listen to the client’s goals and dreams and create a tangible vision and process to bring that vision to life.
In her free time, Georgia enjoys gardening in her own back yard, spending time with her family, nature and micro photography, traveling to Colorado and hiking in the mountains.
