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Alex Smith

Job Titles:
  • Urban Horticulture Specialist
Alex Smith is an experienced horticulturalist with an emphasis on the urban landscape and workforce development. His path to a career in horticulture was a unique one. While in prison, he helped create a horticulture program that built greenhouses, installed garden beds, and through it he became a master gardener. The program has since spread to other prisons in the state of Maryland. With over 15 years of experience, Alex brings a unique perspective on how to install, maintain, and improve the green spaces in our cities.

Amanda Brahlek

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Team
  • Professional Gardener
Amanda is a professional gardener with a love for all things green. She specializes in native landscapes and wildlife gardens. Her yard is designated as a wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation and Tennessee Wildlife Federation. Amanda also professionally maintains an array of gardens in the Nashville area. She is passionate about growing vegetables and caring for indoor plants. Her neighborhood garden provides her neighbors with fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers, and encourages local little ones to get involved in gardening.

Atlanta Lawn

Atlanta Lawn Care Services is a full-service landscaping company. The company provides a color program that selects plants for each season or plants with multi-season growth potential, using an environmentally responsible approach. It also considers factors that influence the success of the garden, including the physical location, budget, time, and complexity of the project the client wishes to pursue. Additional services include weed control and prevention, monthly or yearly lawn maintenance options, and lawn winterization and aeration. These services are provided to residential and commercial clients.

Blake Landscape

Blake Landscape delivers quality and professional landscape services at affordable rates. The company's lawn services include lawn mowing, edging, weeding, aeration and fertilization. Its landscapers are skilled and experienced in providing landscape installation services, including mulching, flowers, tree, and shrub. As a licensed company, its team of arborists provides detail-oriented tree services that include tree removal, stumps, crown reduction, and emergency services. Other services include landscape maintenance, which involves leaf and snow removal, lot clearing, and lawn clean-up. Customers can request a free quote through Blake Landscape's website.

Bluhm Brothers

Bluhm Brothers Landscaping specializes in residential and commercial patio, walkway, and brickwork installations. Each project is conducted with a focus on a customized and comprehensive landscape design plan in the context of the entire available space. Bluhm Brothers knowledgeable staff members offer free on-site designer consultations and only work on a limited number of projects at any given time. Lot clearing, seasonal yard cleanups, and snow removal services are also offered.

Brooklyn Landscape

Job Titles:
  • Owner
The owner-operator of Brooklyn Landscape Design has over two decades of experience specializing in stonework, planting, and irrigation design and installation. Expert services include patios, pathways, retaining walls, decorative gravel, and plantings. It also provides the design and installation of irrigation systems for planting beds, boxes, and lawns. The company always starts with a complimentary site visit followed by the presentation of a design proposal that includes a detailed description of the work and pricing.

Calvin Landscape

Calvin Landscape provides affordable commercial and residential landscaping services. Residential landscaping services include design and construction, phased design and master planning, construction bidding and estimates, and paver patios. Its residential landscaping services include decks, pergolas, arbors, and outdoor structures. The company also does residential maintenance, including mowing, mulching, and pruning. It also completes commercial landscaping services. Their office hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m on weekdays.

Coy Landscaping

Offering quality landscaping services, Coy Landscaping offers services that include new designs, hardscapes, softscapes, artificial putting greens, and arbors. It also does Landscaping, shade sails, floral programs, and water features service. Its team is experienced in offering lawn maintenance services that include lawn mowing, trimming and blowing, mechanical edging, aeration, overseeding, and turf treatment programs. Its irrigation services are system design, new hunter installation, repairs on all brands, system opening and closing, backflow testing, and reporting.

Diamond Lawn

Diamond Lawn Care & Landscape LLC provides Memphis property owners with a range of top-notch services to enhance their outdoor areas. Lawn care solutions offered by this licensed and insured company include mowing, leaf removal, hedge trimming, and general upkeep. Landscape design and installation services utilize features such as paved walkways, raised garden beds, tree and flower plantings, and natural stone to create unique and appealing outdoor spaces. Business hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.

Duke Brothers Landscaping

Job Titles:
  • Executive

Franco Landscaping

Franco Landscaping specializes in various landscaping services. The company offers complete design services, plant installation, grading, turf installation, and water feature and pond installation. Its maintenance team is certified and trained in services such as perimeter pest control, spring and fall cleanups, mulching, mowing and sidewalk edging. The company's rates are affordable, and it offers LED landscape lighting, lawn mowing, turf fertilization, weed control, aeration, and overseeding upon request. Its other services include lawn care, irrigation design, and installation.

Jo Cosgrove

Jo received her Bachelor's degree in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic in 2009. It was there that she fell in love with environmental science, outdoor education, organic agriculture, apiculture, and native pollinator ecology. After graduating, she went on to pursue a career in environmental science education. Jo spent three years building and maintaining the garden classrooms for the Living Classrooms Foundation's B.U.G.S (Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students) after-school program. Most recently she is working as a Stewardship Lead for a Philadelphia-based green roof services company.

John Haryasz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Editorial Team
  • Horticulture Writer and Landscape Designer
  • Writer
John Haryasz is a horticulture writer and landscape designer who holds an accredited degree in landscape architecture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In the field of landscape architecture, he has led many successful design projects throughout the country for both residential and commercial clients. As a horticulture writer, John writes about various plant species, how-to planting guides for novice gardeners, and landscape design ideas for homeowners. He's passionate about sharing his horticulture and design knowledge to promote engagement with the outdoors.

Kelly Landscaping

Kelly Landscaping primarily provides first-class landscaping services. The company's services include residential mowing, landscaping, clean-ups, turf, and bed care. Its team can also handle tree removal, mulching, and flower installations designed to fit customers' proposals. The company offers commercial mowing, grounds maintenance, and landscaping for medical facilities, schools, office parks, HOAs, apartments, senior living communities, and industrial complexes. Customers can call Kelly Landscaping for a free estimate.

Lee Itzler

Lee Itzler has over 30 years of experience creating landscapes in New York. The company's 22-acre nursery provides trees, shrubs, and perennials grown locally to ensure hardiness. It also offers a unique opportunity for clients to have the designer, contractor, and nursery in one company, providing an affordable and attractive landscape architecture package. Whether through sketches or computer imaging, plans will be detailed and work can be timed so that projects are broken into stages.

Light Dark

Light Dark Landscape works to design and install landscapes with minimal environmental impact and water use. It also provides landscape restoration services. It offers landscape design services that complement both the historic and cultural contexts of each site. Light Dark Landscape designs are intended to increase biodiversity, but they also use native plants wherever possible. The company never uses toxic pesticides, fertilizers, or other chemicals. Landscape maintenance and invasive species removal services are also available.

Mary Van Keuren

Mary is a lifelong gardener - she got her start at the age of five growing radishes and lettuce in her family's garden. Over the years, she has tended vegetable gardens in multiple climes, including the United States, England, and sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, Mary is a hobby farmer who grows and preserves most of her own food in Macedon, New York. Her areas of expertise include organic vegetable gardening and permaculture. She is passionate about the use of native plants and wildflowers to rejuvenate landscapes and attract wildlife and pollinators.

Reeser Lawncare

Founded in 1998, Reeser Lawncare and Landscaping is a member of the National Association of Landscape Professionals and a Unilock authorized contractor, providing customers with two- to three-year warranties on its services. Its staff has years of experience, with degrees in horticulture and landscape construction and certifications in retaining wall and outdoor lighting installation. The company uses 3D rendering designs to help envision the project. Other services include grading, seeding, brick edging, lawn care, and snow removal. It also provides free estimates and consultations.

Rinda West

Rinda West Designs works on ecologically sustainable landscaping designs, crafting them to fit the interests, lifestyles, and goals of property owners. From rooftops and decks to balconies and gardens, the company can bring any outdoor space to life. The experts use native plants to create a habitat-friendly environment that attracts pollinators such as bees and birds. They also install trees, large shrubs, lighting systems, irrigation systems, pavers, and stonework. Rinda West Designs focuses on delivering durable, low maintenance landscapes without compromising on beauty.

River Roots

River Roots RVA, LLC is one of the most trusted companies in the landscaping business in and around Richmond. The company's over twenty years of experience bring skill and excellence to lawn maintenance, tree and shrub pruning and trimming, and snow removal. The company designs and builds landscape creations that are pleasing to the eye while accounting for the property's assets and challenges. Power washing by River Roots will restore exterior hardscape elements and buildings to their original beauty.

Rock N Turf

Rock N Turf helps clients enhance the look of their home and increase its value with customized landscaping designs and materials. The company builds unique outdoor living spaces that give you a place to relax and enjoy the comfort of your home. If you're looking for a low maintenance, water-free lawn, the company installs artificial turf. The team will help you choose the right materials and features to create the outdoor landscape you envision. If you prefer to work on your own landscaping projects, Rock N Turf's material supply selections include sod, turf, decorative rock, pavers, compost, and plants.

Sterling Outdoor Living

Sterling Outdoor Living produces exceptional landscaping results and an incredible customer experience for landscape design and gardening services. Its outdoor services cover swimming pool renovations, custom outdoor kitchens and BBQs, pergolas and pavilions, wood and composite decks, concrete patios, fireplaces and pits, and more. Its office is open Monday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. for a custom complimentary consultation and 24-hour response. Sterling Outdoor Living offers a warranty on installations, clear communication, and updates on its service.

Steve Blaes

Steve holds degrees in sustainable horticulture and environmental science and has over 20 years of experience in the green industry. He has earned multiple green industry credentials, including the Landscape Contractors Association certification in Ornamental Horticulture and is an Internal Society of Arboriculture (ISA) certified arborist and has earned their Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ) among others. Steve has worked on a plethora of projects ranging from residential to commercial in both rural and urban communities across the country. He is currently working as a Horticulture Specialist and Resident Arborist for The Johns Hopkins University.

Stone Arch

Stone Arch Landscapes designs and builds custom outdoor living spaces. Kitchens, gas and wood fireplaces, water features, and complete patio entertainment packages are offered. Its professional technicians handle intricate brickwork and paver construction tasks, install outdoor lighting options, and use local materials and sustainable solutions, including rain gardens, bioswales, and permeable rock, wherever possible. Specialized lakeshore rehabilitation, staircases, and restoration stonework are also available. Stone Arch Landscapes won a 2018 Best of Houzz Award.

Sub-Tropical Landscape

Job Titles:
  • Master Plans

Tyler Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Design
Locally-owned and operated, Tyler Schwartz Design is an architectural landscaping design firm with highly skilled professionals that consult, design, and install landscapes. Existing landscapes are surveyed, and reports are drawn upon soil and plant health. Professional CAD drafting services, graphic rendering, and visualization services are offered to create a visual representation of possibilities. Options include sub-tropical landscape master plans, tropical rain gardens, butterfly and wildlife gardens, no-mow meadow gardens, and multi-season cut flower gardens with budget-friendly design phasing.

Zackary DeAngelis

Job Titles:
  • CTO - Chief Trees Officer LinkedIn Profile
Zack is a nature/wildlife specialist and Founder of the Tree Journey and Pest Pointers brands. He grew up in an area of Upstate, NY, with over 50+ acres of fields, woodlands, and a freshwater bass pond while maintaining and planting over 35 species of trees since his youth on their family property. Growing up in a very rural area, Zack and his Father cut/stacked wood for 10+ years to heat their family home. The best lesson his Dad ever taught him was to use fallen and decaying trees for firewood whenever possible to allow every growing tree to reach its full potential. Zack has been quoted in a variety of national outlets while currently managing his home and gardening brands, which reach millions of readers annually. His future goals include opening a Christmas tree farm and gardening center near his local city.