Landscape Collaborative

What Landscape Collaborative does

Landscape Collaborative is a family-owned residential landscape design-build and maintenance firm headquartered at 76 Coolidge Hill Rd, Watertown, Massachusetts. Founded in 1982 and acquired by Robert Hanss in 2018, the company serves affluent homeowners throughout the Greater Boston area, managing 400+ properties from intimate urban gardens to multi-acre estates. The firm operates two integrated service lines: a recurring maintenance subscription (weekly, bimonthly, or monthly visits covering lawn care, horticulture, seasonal containers, holiday decor, snow removal, and special event preparation) and one-time design-build projects (concept design through full landscape construction including hardscaping, planting, irrigation, lighting, pools, and outdoor structures). Its GTM is sales-led and direct-to-consumer: clients initiate engagement via website contact forms, phone, or email, and are paired with a dedicated crew retained year over year to build institutional knowledge of each property. Pricing is quote-based on property size, scope, and frequency; no public pricing exists.

The company employs 60+ people including Massachusetts Certified Horticulturists and a registered Landscape Architect, and is led by Managing Director Catherine Hanss Brownlee (Cornell, Plant Genetics) and Owner Robert Hanss (Cornell, Landscape Architecture). Revenue mechanics blend predictable recurring maintenance contracts with higher-ticket, lower-frequency design-build work, supported by a referral-driven marketing motion anchored on a portfolio website and word of mouth. Technology is conventional for the industry: CAD, Adobe Creative Suite, and SketchUp for design; Aspire and Microsoft Teams for project tracking and scheduling. The firm is privately held, debt-free of institutional capital, and operates exclusively within the Greater Boston geography, with no patents, no funding rounds, and no disclosed social media or paid marketing channels.

Name

Landscape Collaborative

Legal name

Landscape Collaborative

Website

https://landcoll.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Landscape Collaborative is a family-owned residential landscape design-build and maintenance firm founded in 1982, serving 400+ properties throughout the Greater Boston area with 60+ employees via recurring maintenance subscriptions and one-time design-build projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Residential Landscaping Services

NAICS

Landscaping Services (561730), Landscape Architectural Services (541320)

SIC

Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro primary industry

Residential Landscape Design (HSAIABAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Landscape Maintenance Plans & Post-Installation Care (Establishment Services) (HSAIABAL), Garden Bed Design, Layout & Planting Plans (HSAIAFAA), Landscape Construction & Hardscaping (Patios, Retaining Walls, Outdoor Structures) (IMAIAIAE), Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

Keywords

• Residential landscape services
• Garden maintenance
• Landscape design-build
• Horticulture services
• Snow removal services

Headquarters

HQ city

Watertown

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Garden Maintenance Services: Recurring maintenance services including seasonal garden maintenance, lawn care, snow removal, horticulture services, and seasonal container design. Services offered on weekly, bimonthly, or monthly visit schedules.
2. Design-Build Services: One-time project-based landscape construction services including earthwork, grading, hardscaping, planting, drainage and irrigation, landscape lighting, fire pits, pools, water features, fencing, pergolas, outdoor kitchens and decks.
3. Special Events Preparation: Event-specific yard preparation services for parties and celebrations including lawn mowing, outdoor lighting setup, and temporary structure building.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Landscape Collaborative is a residential landscape design-build and maintenance firm that creates and tends gardens for homeowners in the Greater Boston area. The company sells recurring four-season garden maintenance (lawn care, horticulture, snow removal, seasonal cleanup) on weekly, bimonthly, or monthly schedules, alongside one-time design-build projects covering earthwork, hardscaping, planting, drainage, irrigation, lighting, and outdoor living structures.

Product overview

Landscape Collaborative offers a comprehensive suite of residential landscape services organized into two main categories: Maintenance and Design-Build. The Maintenance services include Four Season Maintenance (lawn care, irrigation, plant healthcare, snow removal, hand pruning, seasonal garden maintenance, spring cleanup, and fall cleanup), Horticulture (specialized plant care, rare perennial sourcing, meadow management), Seasonal Containers, Holiday Decor, Special Events preparation, and ongoing Residential Maintenance. The Design-Build services encompass Design (conceptual planning, base mapping, plant palettes, detailed drawings) and Build (construction services including earthwork, hardscaping, planting, drainage, irrigation, lighting, fire pits, pools, water features, and structures). The company manages 300+ residential properties across Greater Boston with dedicated crew assignments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Four Season Maintenance Year-round residential landscape maintenance service including lawn care, irrigation, plant healthcare, snow removal, hand pruning, spring cleanup, and fall cleanup, scheduled on weekly, bimonthly, or monthly visits for homeowners across the Greater Boston area.
• Horticulture Specialized horticulture service for residential clients covering sourcing and planting of rare perennials, annual-heavy garden maintenance, dahlia care, meadow plantings, and integrated pest management techniques.
• Seasonal Containers Year-round seasonal container design, installation, and maintenance tailored to client preferences, ranging from classic forms to whimsical designs for residential properties.
• Holiday Decor Residential holiday decoration service including design and installation of holiday containers, tree lighting, and garlands for the holiday season.
• Special Events Event preparation service for residential properties covering lawn mowing, outdoor string lighting setup, and temporary structure building ahead of parties and celebrations.
• Design Residential landscape design service including preliminary client meetings, base mapping, property inventory, schematic hand drawings, concept development, plant palettes, grading plans, and detailed construction drawings.
• Build Residential landscape construction service covering earthwork, grading, hardscaping (patios, walkways, driveways, walls), planting, drainage and irrigation, landscape lighting, fire pits, pools, water features, and outdoor structures such as fencing, pergolas, outdoor kitchens, and decks.

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• BrightView Landscapes: Largest publicly traded U.S. commercial and residential landscape services company; operates a full design-build-maintain stack nationwide including Massachusetts, representing the scaled incumbent benchmark LC competes against on enterprise residential accounts.
• TruGreen: National residential lawn and landscape care franchise; competes with LC for premium homeowner maintenance contracts at greater scale and brand recognition but with less horticultural specialization.
• Davey Tree Expert Co. Large national provider of tree, lawn, and landscape services to residential, commercial, and utility customers; overlaps with LC on residential grounds maintenance and serves as a benchmark for scaled service delivery.

Direct peers

• Copley Wolff Design Group: Boston-area landscape architecture and urban design practice serving public, institutional, and private clients — overlapping with LC on the landscape architecture and design-build service dimensions in the same regional market.
• Hartney Greymont: Multi-generation, full-service residential and commercial landscape firm serving Greater Boston with design, construction, and maintenance offerings similar in scope and geography to Landscape Collaborative.
• CBA Landscape Architects: New England landscape architecture firm noted as a prior employer of LC team member Veronica; competes in the same high-end residential and public-realm landscape design segment in the Boston market.

Others

• Oehme van Sweden: High-end Washington, D.C.-based landscape architecture practice noted as a prior employer of LC's Martin Lucyk; comparable in design philosophy and project caliber, though geographically non-overlapping with LC.
• Andropogon Associates: Philadelphia-based ecological landscape architecture and planning practice with high-end residential and public-realm work; comparable in design sophistication and horticultural nuance, less so in service delivery model.
• Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Award-winning Brooklyn-based landscape architecture firm whose work and culture have shaped the LC talent pool (Martin Lucyk is a former associate); not a direct Boston-residential competitor, but operates in the same design craft space.
• Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architecture: National high-end landscape architecture firm working on culturally significant residential, institutional, and urban projects; overlaps with LC's design ambitions and talent market though it does not deliver regional maintenance services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/LandscapeCollaborative
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/landscape-collaborative-of-new-england

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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