Doug Delano (and Bill Hardy) opened Level Green Landscaping LLC in 2002 to offer Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia reliable commercial landscape maintenance services.
Choosing a landscaping company for your HOA or condo association might not be your favorite thing.
We understand. It’s a big decision, and you have a lot of choices.
How do you know if a company will meet your needs, communicate well, follow landscaping guidelines for HOAs, and look out for your best interests?
Ashley Owens, business development manager at Level Green Landscaping, knows landscaping responsibilities for HOAs can be daunting.
How to choose the best company?
Have you noticed the weather has been a lot crazier around here lately?
Apparently, it’s going to get worse.
That means keep an eye on your landscaping needs, say two University of Maryland professors and experts on landscaping and climate change.
Level Green Landscaping recently hosted a networking and educational event held by the Landscape Contractors Association of MD, VA, and DC.
Long, low buildings. Expansive parking lots. Busy loading docks.
Large industrial sites and big warehouses have their own unique set of landscaping needs.
“They usually want their landscaping to be low maintenance, tough, drought tolerant and to look nice,” says Shelley Russell, landscape designer at Level Green Landscaping. “That’s pretty much everything.”
Luckily, she’s up for the challenge.
Landscaping for factories? Landscaping for warehouses?
Russell shares her best tips.
We’re all so used to worrying about falling snow, it's easy to forget about melting snow.
Melting snow is good, right? It means all that slippery, slushy white stuff is going away.
But where is it going? And can it get there? And what is it doing along the way?
Interesting questions.
Lucky for you, we have answers.
The team at Level Green Landscaping volunteers a lot throughout the year, cleaning up school gardens with students and teaching the community to get their hands in the soil.
Their latest volunteer project is a departure, putting their hardscape skills to work to help install a compelling bronze statue at the renowned Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in downtown Washington DC.
Got your mittens ready? Your parka? Your boots?
When winter blasts in with extreme cold, you’re covered.
But what about your plants?
Here’s a look at how to prevent winter damage to landscapes.
College is stressful. Exams. Projects. Financial aid worries.
Students need beautiful, green, relaxing spaces to unwind.
But university landscaping also has to impress.
When prospective college students show up on campus for a tour, discriminating parents in tow, “You need top of the line landscaping to compete,” says Shelley Russell, landscape designer at Level Green Landscaping.
“These days, colleges are marketing as much to parents as they are to students,” adds Corey Rill, the Level Green account manager responsible for client the University of the District of Columbia.
How to make your university landscaping impress, and be a great place for students to grow and learn?
You wouldn’t think a snowfall less than two inches would be a very big deal.
So why does it keep Level Green Landscaping managers up all night, our crews on alert and everybody’s eagle eyes on multiple weather forecasts?
Curious.
It’s no mystery to our snow manager, Greg Stacho.
He walks us through an hour by hour look at what happens behind the scenes to prepare for a snowfall of less than two inches — when most people are still deep in slumber.
Preparing your commercial property for winter?
If you want to prevent property damage from this winter’s plowing and ice removal, don't forget to invite your snow removal company.
There are some things we need to know before the snow starts piling up.
How to protect your property against winter damage?
Here’s how we do it.
When you use landscaping equipment every day like we do here at Level Green Landscaping, you get to know it pretty well.
While gas-powered tools have been our mainstay for decades— just like everybody else in the industry — lately we’ve started the move from gas-fueled to battery-powered mowers, blowers, weed-eaters and shears.
We want to be as green as possible (it’s in our company name, after all) and we know our customers do, too.
