Phillips Garden

What Phillips Garden does

Phillips Garden is a privately held landscape design and installation firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving residential clients across the Minneapolis metropolitan area. The company operates two service lines: Design/Build Services for landscape installation projects and Horticultural Services for ongoing garden care and maintenance. Its client base consists of individual homeowners, with a completed-project portfolio spanning 15 residential sites distributed across multiple Minneapolis neighborhoods. The business is presently operating with limited availability for 2025 and has forward booking into late 2025 and beyond.

The company runs a project-based service model. Design/build engagements are typically one-time, higher-ticket installations for individual homeowners, while horticultural services provide a recurring maintenance revenue stream that complements the lumpy project revenue. Geographic concentration is entirely within the Minneapolis metro, and the company is not currently hiring, which suggests a lean team structure typical of boutique design-build landscaping operations. No proprietary technology platform, digital product surface, or AI/ML capability is evident from the available information.

The firm's value proposition rests on local market reputation, design expertise, and horticultural execution rather than technology differentiation or scale. Structural risk factors include single-metro geographic concentration, single-segment (residential) customer concentration, absence of recurring anchor contracts, and capacity that is currently saturated without an announced plan to expand. No funding history, headcount figures, or financial disclosures are available to substantiate growth, profitability, or capacity-expansion intent.

Name

Phillips Garden

Legal name

Phillips Garden

Website

https://phillipsgarden.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Phillips Garden is a privately held Minneapolis-based landscape design and installation firm serving residential clients across the metro through Design/Build Services and Horticultural Services, with a completed portfolio of 15 residential projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Residential Landscape Services

NAICS

Landscaping Services (56173)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Installation (Plants, Sod & Soil) (HSAIABAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Landscape Maintenance Plans & Post-Installation Care (Establishment Services) (HSAIABAL), Seasonal Color, Planting & Horticultural Services (BPABADAL)

Keywords

• Residential landscape design
• Garden installation services
• Landscape construction
• Horticultural maintenance
• Outdoor environment design

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Design/Build Services: One-time project-based revenue for landscape construction, including grading, soil preparation, planting, and constructing walls and patios. Projects are designed and built for clients, with availability for 2025 season and future projects.
2. Horticultural Services: Recurring seasonal garden maintenance services including planting, weeding, mulching, soil amending, pruning, and light landscaping work. Also includes garden renovations and projects with limited availability.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Phillips Garden is a residential landscape design, installation, and horticultural services firm. Its Design/Build Services encompass landscape construction work such as grading, soil preparation, planting, and the construction of walls and patios, delivered as customized one-time projects. Its Horticultural Services provide recurring seasonal garden maintenance including planting, weeding, mulching, soil amendment, pruning, and light landscaping, along with limited garden renovation and project work. The company serves homeowners primarily in the Minneapolis metropolitan area.

Product overview

Phillips Garden is a landscaping company offering two core service lines: Design/Build Services and Horticultural Services. Design/Build Services encompasses landscape installation including grading, soil preparation, planting, and constructing walls and patios, with roles for crew members and foremen. Horticultural Services provides ongoing garden maintenance including planting, weeding, mulching, pruning, and soil amendment, with positions for gardeners, crew leads, and account managers. The company also maintains a portfolio of completed residential landscape design projects including Sunken Courtyard, Dewey Hill Meadow, Contemporary Meadow, Cedar Isles, and others.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Design/Build Services

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• GreenPal: Marketplace platform connecting homeowners to local lawn-care providers; emerging player that competes for residential landscape maintenance demand and reintermediates customer acquisition channels.
• Lawn Love: Tech-enabled on-demand lawn care platform matching homeowners with local landscapers; emerging player reshaping residential landscape service discovery and pricing dynamics.

Broad incumbents

• SavATree: Multi-state tree, lawn, and landscape services company offering residential design, installation, and ongoing care programs — directly comparable on the integrated install-plus-maintenance model though at much broader geographic scale.
• Yellowstone Landscape Group: National landscape services firm providing commercial and high-end residential landscape maintenance, design, and installation — relevant incumbent for full-service landscape delivery.
• Ruppert Landscape: Full-service landscape contractor with strong residential design/build and maintenance operations across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast — comparable on integrated service delivery model.
• TruGreen: National lawn and landscape care provider serving residential and commercial customers with recurring maintenance programs; broadly comparable on the horticultural maintenance side though less focused on high-end design/build.
• Davey Tree Expert Company: Large, established North American provider of tree, lawn, and landscape services including residential design, installation, and maintenance — broad incumbent whose residential and commercial landscape offerings overlap Phillips Garden's core services at greater scale.
• BrightView Landscapes: Largest commercial-focused landscape services company in the U.S. with design/build, maintenance, and enhancement capabilities; relevant incumbent peer for landscape design/build execution at scale.

Regional players

• Bachman's Landscaping: Landscape design/build and maintenance division of the well-known Bachman's Twin Cities garden retail brand, serving the same Minneapolis residential segment as Phillips Garden with a similar combination of design and horticultural services.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/phillips-garden

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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