Eric Cortina began his career with the Roger’s Gardens family 25 years ago as a production assistant. After a two-year stint at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and a few years of ...

Inspired by trips abroad and visits to antique shops and museums, designer Eric Cortina’s unique handmade glass Christmas ornaments – which include Chinese lanterns, Venetian harlequins, Roman columns ...

IT’S the week before Thanksgiving, and people are gridlocked at Roger’s Gardens. The Corona del Mar store is stuffed with trees and expensive glitter-bilia. “Silent Night” plays but is drowned out by ...

Though Eric Cortina has worked at Roger’s Gardens in Corona del Mar for 14 years, it wasn’t until five years ago that the gardening bug bit him. Hard. Since developing a green thumb, Cortina and David ...