Landscape Maintenance, Grounds Management, Tree & Grounds Care: whatever regional term you might use, there is no debating the importance of a well-orchestrated plan to maintain the outdoor amenities that give your properties an inviting sense of place. Since 1976, our team of landscape professionals has had the training, education, experience, and wherewithal to deliver a suite of services that make your job and your life easier. We know you’re busy, and we want to be your go-to source for a well-maintained, thoughtfully managed landscape.
Maintaining the landscape around a single-family home can be challenging, but to apply the principles of good horticulture and agronomy across the vast expanse of an entire community, office park, institutional campus, or municipality requires a thoughtful plan to address the needs of the particular site. We have been able to repeatedly execute excellence in commercial landscaping because of our highly skilled team members. To succeed in our industry requires access to the best, most hardworking people, and thanks to our longevity and track record, we are able to attract and retain the best of the best.
The local leaders in each of our branch offices are part of our network of more than 500 associates, many of whom have extensive education in the fields of Horticulture, Turfgrass, Agronomy, Soil Science, Arboriculture, Crop Science, and more. Our team includes a Director of Training who works with local leaders to develop and deploy online virtual content, in-the-field materials, and digital skills-mastery validation. We are a paperless organization that operates using a cloud-based ERP platform, along with an online HRM suite and web-based learning tools that empower our employees in the field through technology and training. In fact, we employ the largest workforce of trained, educated, and certified landscape professionals in our region, and we are consistently ranked as one of the top 100 landscaping companies in the United States.
Thanks to our personnel, we can consistently and competitively maintain the grounds of any large-scale facility: multi-thousand-door HOAs along the coast, municipal contracts in the Piedmont, Class A developments in Charlotte, and properties of every size anywhere in the Carolinas. We are ready to take responsibility for the entire life cycle of your landscape, from inception, through construction, and into perpetual management and maintenance.
Turfgrass Management
Well-managed turf is an investment in the appearance and functionality of your property. Our local teams of trained professionals make decisions based on best-in-class turfgrass management practices, including the guidance provided by North Carolina State University and Clemson University. We equip team members with the correct tools for the job, and we only use inputs that we know to be effective from our decades of research and development. Whether you have an HOA with Centipede grass in the coastal plains, or a Class A Office campus with Fescue in the piedmont and foothills, we have experts ready to make it look the best it possibly can within the constraints afforded by site conditions.
Mulch & Pinestraw
Details, details, details: it’s all about the details! Some of the most important details on a well maintained property are the kinds of things the average person may not even stop to notice — until they get overlooked. Mulch and pine needles are two great examples of such details, and both provide respective benefits to the landscape in addition to the clean aesthetic they provide when they are refreshed regularly.
The term “mulch” generally refers to one of several different ground wood products that is created as either a forestry by-product or through grinding of dimensional lumber. Mulch choices are heavily influenced by location and market standards that reflect what is available within a reasonable freight distance.
As experienced landscapers, we know that it is best to learn from nature when looking for inspiration, and if one visits the forest, it does not take any time at all to understand the importance of an insulated rootzone to provide a healthy growing area for trees and shrubs. With the exception of established turfgrass, most plants in the landscape want their roots to be insulated from the stressful effects of direct sunlight on the soil surface. A 2″ to 3″ application of decomposable organic material helps with moisture retention and cools the root zone, while at the same time providing plants with important nutrients and minerals through microbial decomposition. Healthier root systems lead to healthier plants.
Other reasons we encourage clients to invest in regular mulch and pine needle applications include weed suppression, erosion prevention, splash prevention, reduced heat-island effect, maintaining walkable pathways, and a general well-maintained appearance. Our landscape experts are happy to work with you to recommend what is best for the property we are helping you manage. Whether you need 1,000 bales, or 10,000 cubic yards, we’ve got you covered!
Outdoor Lighting
We design, install, manage, and repair low-voltage landscape lighting systems. From older, existing systems to newer, state-of-the-art systems, we install both traditional incandescent and LED fixtures.
We encourage customers to use LED systems—whose warmth and quality of light has greatly improved in recent years—for reliability, energy efficiency, lifecycle longevity, and cost-savings. When it comes to the lifecycle cost of a lighting system, LEDs are by far the smartest investment.
These benefits translate into a commercial system’s practical uses, including illuminating dimly lit areas and walking paths, increasing security in parking lots, eliminating trip hazards, or accenting a prominent feature of a building or landscape.
