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Welcome to our new landscaping resource!
This project aims to support the growing number of landscape contractors who provide services to clients seeking ecologically sustainable landscapes. Provided below are details for four beautiful new demonstration sites: design plans, installation pricing, installation notes, maintenance schedules, and wholesale growers. When installation is underway more details will be added. Maintenance tasks, including hours spent, will also be documented and shared.
Designer: John Mariani, LandServe LLC
Lands in Harmony Information
Meet the Demonstration Sites
I love my old oak
This property features a massive red oak now in decline – a survivor of a once great ecosystem. The former residence is now home to a real estate business where client and community gatherings are hosted in the backyard. Invasive growth will be replaced with native shrubs and garden beds, and we will nurture the old oak’s sole young offspring.
Every time it rains
Like many properties in the flatlands of northeastern Illinois, this one is no stranger to stormwater challenges. Its former residence now features a popular barber salon – and a basement that suffers after each rainfall. We aim to reduce impervious paving and leverage the power of green infrastructure with deep-rooted native plantings.
Will there be flowers
Though it’s nice and dry indoors at this sophisticated nail salon, the backyard is often covered by standing water after each downpour. Our traditionally designed plantings will showcase native flowers and wetland species. New approaches to hardscaping and lighting will improve landscape functioning for both the business and migratory songbirds.
This land has a story
This land has been home to a variety of people, animals, and plants for millennia. Both glaciers and settlers caused major shifts as they pushed through the area, with the impact of each still underway. The building that today stands on this site was constructed over 130 years ago and has been home to the local Freemasons fraternity for nearly seven decades, serving as their base for charitable community work. New landscaping will welcome their outdoor meetings and picnics while the soil welcomes the return of indigenous plants.
Many thanks to the Illinois Landscape Contractors Association for project collaboration.
Support for this project is generously provided by:
