Landscape & Outdoor Living

Landscape & Outdoor Living

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Outdoor living space around a home is often the area most underutilized by its owners. That’s not to say they don’t have a lawn or a few ornamental shrubs—but an eye-catching landscape will enhance the home’s exterior and draw people in with irresistible curb appeal. Landscaping helps anchor the home by connecting it to its surroundings. And an increase in curb appeal increases your home’s value.


“Landscaping” is a bit of a catch-all that may mean any of a variety of outdoor enhancements. Often, shrubbery, trees, and flowers come to mind. But so should a winding walkway, a paving stone driveway, a patio, or a pond or waterfall. Add outdoor night lighting for a dramatic new way of seeing your home and yard. Landscapes help turn your home’s environs into an outdoor room—terrific terra firm that you will use and appreciate more often.


TREND TALK

“Two popular trends include outdoor fire pit/cooking areas and front entry makeovers.” —Villa Landscapes


TREND TALK

“Remodeling pool areas. Institutional pool areas are being remodeled to add water features, entertainment areas or more relaxing sitting spaces.” —CurbSide Landscape & Irrigation

photo by Davey Tree
Expert Company

Davey Tree Expert Co.

Plymouth, MN

763-553-9740
www.davey.com

Our history…

John Davey left the family farm in Somerset, England, in 1873 to live his dream in America, where he founded Davey Tree Expert Company in 1880 to preserve ailing trees and provide quality horticultural services. After more than a century of operation, the company has transformed into a flourishing, employee-owned enterprise with more than 6,500 men and women performing tree, shrub, and lawn care throughout the United States and Canada.


photo by Davey Tree Expert Company

What is your philosophy?

Employees of the Davey Tree Expert Company continue to follow John Davey’s example in setting and meeting high technical standards of plant care. Davey employees are the envy of the green industry because of our company pride, our technical excellence, and our work ethic. We live John Davey’s philosophy: “Do it right, or not at all.”

Why Davey Tree?

We are regarded as the premier national company in the green (landscape) industry, providing the best in tree, shrub, lawn, and Groundskeeper CareSM services to residential and commercial customers.

photos courtesy of Linder’s Landscaping

Linder’s Landscaping

St. Paul, MN

651-255-0443
www.linderslandscaping.com


How did you get here?

Linder’s is a third generation family-owned business. Today, Linder’s operations consist of a garden center, flower marts, and landscaping. Linder’s Landscaping is the service side of the business, which has successfully delivered yard transformations throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

photos courtesy of
Linder’s Landscaping

What is your philosophy?

Our philosophy is to provide satisfaction by educating and working with the customer all along the design and installation process. We truly believe that education is the best approach to deliver the best design and installation to our clients. That said, at the heart of our company is a commitment to our customers needs and our dedication has made Linder’s a trusted business since 1910.

Our key to success…

Linder’s is known for our quality Linder’s-grown plants and our exceptional two-year guarantee. Our design process, along with exceptional craftsmanship, will provide you with the best in landscape installation either for new landscape or a total renovation. We specialize in renovation of existing landscapes. With Linder’s Landscaping services, you supply the canvas…we’ll supply the paint.

TREND TALK

“Outdoor rooms—creation of spaces for entertaining or just for relaxing. The outdoor rooms can incorporate features such as patios, outdoor kitchens and bars, pergolas, and water features with or without a pond.”  —Linder’s Landscaping

photos by L&R Suburban Landscaping

L & R Suburban Landscaping

Minnetonka, MN

952-935-0389
www.lrsuburbanlandscaping.com

How did you get here?

Our company was established in 1978 by brothers Lyle and Ron Cemenski. They have performed, managed, and created all aspects of landscaping work throughout their business careers.

photos by L&R
Suburban Landscaping

Our key to success…

We have the skills needed to manage any degree of difficulty, in addition to excellent on-site project management. Daily communication regarding all aspects of the project—ordering and coordination of materials, crew scheduling, engineering reports, permit applications/approvals, and on-site project installation coordination—enables us to consistently excel.

You might not know…

Once people have the opportunity to work with us, they are so thoroughly impressed with our methods, our commitment, our staff and the end result, many of them have pro-jects installed numerous times. Our clients trust us. In today’s extensively changing business climate, when contractors come and go and people don’t perform, it comes down to ethics, both personal and professional. Integrity has built our reputation; it is the backbone of our company.


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