Giant Landscaping Services

Property Managers have a lot of concerns - landscape maintenance shouldn't be one of them! Giant Landscaping provides meticulous grounds maintenance and snow removal services on time, every time. Time is money. The final stage of a commercial construction project is landscaping. We provide grading, irrigation and hydroseeding services within a general contractor's schedule and budget. Nobody knows you like your neighbors, friends and relatives. Doesn't it make sense to hire a landscaping company that understands your community and your lifestyle?

Giant Landscaping in Manchester, New Hampshire, was started in 2003 by Jeff Lavigne with a vision to provide local homeowners and commercial property owners with the best all-around landscaping services money could buy. Having worked for other landscape companies, Jeff learned about the mistakes that landscape companies typically make and set out to create a company that would be different from the rest. Tim Boyle joined up as a partner with Jeff in 2009. When you call Giant Landscaping today, you'll be greeted by one of our friendly office staff.

Winter storms in New Hampshire can be a hardship on everyone, but no one is more affected than local business owners. Finding the right commercial snow removal contractor is key to everyone's bottom line. If customers are inconvenienced because your parking lot has not been plowed you could lose customers. If walkways are not shoveled and ice melt has not been applied, a person could slip and fall, then you run the risk of a lawsuit. If your snowplowing services not keeping up with the storm, then Giant Landscaping would like the opportunity to show you how we put the "service" back into snow removal service.

It's very true that your home is your castle - no matter how small it is! Landscaping services for homeowners (also known as "residential landscaping") requires an attention to detail that is not usually essential on commercial landscaping projects. Residential landscaping is in our DNA. Since 2003, Giant Landscaping has always enjoyed servicing the residential market. It's how we got our start - and we will always do it because it is so gratifying. In our experience over the years, we have found that homeowners are happy to pay a little more for extra details - even if that takes several seasons to accomplish.

Our residential landscape maintenance services are very accommodating to an individual budget. So if you need a professional company to provide spring lawn clean up services near Manchester, NH give us a call! We realize that in New Hampshire, many homeowners like to cut their own lawns. We're good with that. Sometimes folks just need a little help with complete spring lawn clean up projects and fall leaf clean ups. We can mulch your beds, or deliver some mulch to you so you can do it yourself. If you haven't kept up with your yard maintenance, and you have an event at your house, we can come in ahead of time and make everything "clean and green."

One of the greatest pleasures we have as a local residential landscaping company in Manchester, New Hampshire is to work with homeowners on a landscape construction project - whether it's a landscape design, hardscape or planting project. Besides the monetary benefit of owning a home with a great landscape, there is also value in the pride of a professionally landscaped yard. It makes a statement in your neighborhood that you care about where you live. If you have a personality that's formal, your landscape can have hedges, topiary plants, and colorful bedding annuals.

While large residential developments often use excavation contractors to perform grading and hydroseeding, utility installation, drainage, we at Giant Landscaping find we are frequently providing construction services on smaller building projects. Our equipment is the perfect size for smaller building lots and additions to existing homes. Our landscape construction crews are versatile in their skills - and trained in areas outside of their specialty. In this way, we are able to "bulk up" the labor on a job to finish it within a deadline, or maintain a minimal production while other contractors on the site are finishing up their work.

In 2014, Giant Landscaping purchased Green Acres Hydroseeding in an effort to become less dependent upon subcontractors to complete this critical step in the landscape construction process. The results have been phenomenal! Not only are we able to control the quality of soil preparation in a new lawn, we now have access to the best equipment and materials in the industry. Our truck holds 1000 gallons of hydroseed mix, enough to cover approximately 10,000 ft. of prepared soil. Customized seed blends.

At Giant Landscaping, we love working with general contractors. They know exactly what they want done. They aren't looking for a lot of options. When we suggest something, it makes sense to them. A general contractor of a large construction firm is managing multiple projects - oftentimes in multiple locations. It's important that his processes are streamlined and deadlines are met. Our ability to perform multiple landscape services on-site is one of the greatest values we provide to builders and general contractors.

Giant Landscaping is your residential landscape design service provider in Manchester, New Hampshire! Take advantage of our working knowledge of plants and how they grow. Our experience working with plants has taught us not to put a tree or shrub in a place where it will outgrow its space or not thrive because of too much sun or too much shade. Our design assures you of having the right plant in the right place. We provide you with a reference list with the names of the plants in your landscape plan, common name and botanical name.

The majority of what Giant Landscaping does for commercial clients is landscape maintenance. In the lifecycle of rental/leasing properties, however, it sometimes becomes necessary to upgrade or replace parts of a landscape for aesthetic or safety reasons. We work with property management firms, commercial realtors, and private commercial property investors to prioritize landscape improvements so they can budget for them. A Property Condition Assessment (PCA) does not only apply to internal and structural parts of commercial property; exterior components and systems break down as well.

There is nothing in the landscape that says "community" more than a brick walkway or patio. A walkway invites visitors to your door. A patio gives a place at your home for family and friends to gather in an outdoor setting. Our hardscaping crew installs brick paver patios and walkways - as well as pool decks - that will withstand the test of time. Done right the first time. There's a reason why they call it "hardscaping." It's not easy to do it right! Taking shortcuts on the base preparation (or any step along the way) can mean settling or sinking, and ultimately having to pull up the bricks and start over.

Did you ever drive by a retail store, restaurant, or apartment complex in Manchester New Hampshire and think to yourself, "I wonder if they're still in business?" The plants are half dead, weeds have taken over the mulch bed, and what's left of the lawn is crabgrass. An unfortunate shift in the way commercial property maintenance is being done lately, has been to outsource the responsibility of grounds maintenance to a property management company from another state. This may look good on the books: the idea of someone shopping around for the best price for maintaining your commercial property.

To help you out, we put together this list of the "industry-best standards" organizations and landscaping resources. This information will enable you to be as informed as possible about your landscape investment. We are proud to be associated with ICPI and SIMA as industry professionals. Website - How do you know your patio or walkway is going to be installed so it doesn't sink or settle? We use best practices to minimize salt usage while improving the effectiveness of snow and ice removal.

We were born and raised in Londonderry, New Hampshire, then established our landscaping company in Manchester. We know what it's like to be part of a community. The community has given our business phenomenal growth over the past several years, due largely in part to the confidence that local homeowners and businesses place in us to do the job right. It's only natural that we want to give back. Funds are limited for everybody, and there's no shortage of needs out there. We have selected four non-profit organizations to donate time, materials, and funds when we're able to, because we really believe in the value these local organizations provide to our community.

Here's a snapshot of our commercial services list for both landscape maintenance and landscape construction. If you need it done, but don't see it - ask us!

If you have ever attempted a lawn installation yourself, you know how much work it is. When scorching heat destroys your efforts to have a beautiful lawn it can be very discouraging. But take heart! Giant Landscaping is the full-service neighborhood lawn installation and irrigation company for the Manchester, New Hampshire area! And we're here to help. We can give you that dream lawn that you are working so hard to get. A good lawn starts with a good base. We top dress a new lawn with 4 inches of quality screened loam.

Without a doubt, lawn irrigation is the best landscape improvement you can make. A lawn that is green all summer and healthy, growing trees and shrubs returns huge dividends in the of area of curb appeal. Several seasons of drought can stress your trees and turf to the point where they have to be replaced. Think of a home lawn irrigation as an insurance policy against plant loss! When your lawn is dried out it's too late. Daily watering in measured amounts is critical for healthy grass and reducing weeds.

It's just a fact that yards in New Hampshire are rarely flat. Because of this, retaining walls are an essential part of any hardscaping project. If you want to get the most out of your yard, you need a retaining wall to level off those sloping areas. Standing water and saturation can ruin a patio or walkway, even if it's installed correctly. Retaining walls help to redirect surface water. Installing a walkway to your front door often requires several low retaining walls and steps to create safe walking conditions in snow and ice.

Our 1-1/2 River Stone is harvested from dry river beds across New England. Naturally smooth, this free-draining stone is perfect for use in water features, decorative drainage swayles or in pathways where barefoot pedestrian traffic occurs. Sometimes called "processed gravel" or "roadbase, " this sand-stone mix is a compactable material used to create a stable base for retaining walls and patios. Great for driveway parking areas too!

Property management firms balance between maintaining a property and maintaining budget for their clients. When budget prevails, sometimes property maintenance suffers. A low-ball price usually means poor quality service. Take a restaurant, for example. How many potential customers drive by but never stop in to eat because they are thinking "if the yard looks that bad, what does the kitchen look like?" As the neighborhood landscape company in Manchester, we would love to see urban renewal projects - especially businesses taking pride in their neighborhood.