About Us 

​I'm Clay Cauthorn, the owner of Cauthorn Garden.

I grew up on the Texas-Mexico border in Del Rio, racing motocross and helping my grandfather on the Cauthorn Ranch. This is when my love of the land began to develop.  After graduating from the University of Texas, I went into banking but quickly realized that I was not meant for a desk job!
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I enrolled in a Master's of Landscape Architecture program at Texas A&M.  Before completing my master's thesis, I was hired by a golf course design firm.  ​My golf course design career was short-lived but it took me to Japan and offered  a tremendous learning experience.

My heart drew me back into landscape design, spending a year with Longhorn Landscape and five years with Oasis Landscape Design. In 2010, I founded Cauthorn Garden and have never looked back. It's come full circle; the seeds planted while working with my grandfather have blossomed and I am doing what I love.   In a tip-of-the-hat to my roots, my logo takes inspiration from the irises in my own garden which are descendants of those planted on the family ranch by my great-grandmother.