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U City in Bloom Garden Tour 2015

Bloom Garden Tour

U City in Bloom is a non-profit beautification effort for the St. Louis neighborhood, University City. Through community involvement and engagement they have greatly improved the beauty of local street corners, schools and parks. Their bi-annual Fall Garden Tour was a great hit this year, with absolutely perfect weather, a great turnout and a great …

U City In Bloom – Garden Tour!

Next month, join Quiet Village Landscaping for U City In Bloom’s Biennial Fall Garden Tour! We’ll be on-hand providing gardening tips and interviewing featured gardens on the tour. U City In Bloom’s Biennial Fall Garden Tour will be held rain or shine on Sunday, September 20th from 1pm to 5pm.  The tour will feature historical areas …

QVL Field Trip! Work & Play at Missouri Botanical Garden

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On July 1st, Quiet Village Landscaping employees had an informative, fun – and very wet field trip to Missouri Botanical Garden and nearby Tower Grove Park. Our talented and knowledgeable landscape designer, Rebecca Eisele, led a tour through parts of the garden to point out proper installation, maintenance, and pruning techniques to ensure that our …

Pruning Class at Missouri Botanical Garden

Some of our teammates with Benjamin Chu after his pruning class at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Several of our teammates had the privilege of attending a pruning class this month at the Missouri Botanical Garden taught by Benjamin Chu.  Chu is the Horticultural Supervisor at the Missouri Botanical Garden, having been a part of their family for almost three decades. Chu provided an overview on how pruning is used to control plant size …

“Project Clear” Offers Small Grants for St. Louis RainScaping

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Great news—the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District’s initiative “Project Clear” offers small grants to help improve water quality through rainscaping! As MSD announces on their website, they “will invest billions of dollars over a generation in planning, designing, and building community rainscaping projects, system improvements, and an ambitious program of maintenance and repair.” Residents of …

Rebecca Elected as Hort Co-Op Representative

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Congratulations to Rebecca Eisele–our landscape designer–on being elected as the Horticultural Co-Op Representative for the Landscape and Nursery Association of Greater St. Louis (LNAGSL)! I (Rachel, Marketing Manager) had the pleasure of interviewing Rebecca on this milestone.  Interview follows:   Rachel: Can you tell me a little about the Landscape and Nursery Association of Greater St. Louis …

Forest Park Landscaping: Honeysuckle Removal

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On Friday, November 14th, Quiet Village Landscaping Co. volunteered with St. Louis’ Forest Park Forever Nature Reserve staff and Park Ecologist Peter VanLinn III to clear away invasive plants and trees.  Despite the 34-degree weather, we removed honeysuckles, mulberries and other invasive species from a large plot of land in-between the Highlands golf course and Jefferson Lake. …

Quiet Village Receives PLANET Safety Award

Quiet Village Receives PLANET Safety Award

At Quiet Village Landscaping, we care greatly about our team and their wellbeing.  Therefore, we are proud to announce that the Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) just awarded us their Safety Recognition Award!   The Safety Recognition Awards Program reflects PLANET’s dedication to creating and maintaining safe work environments in the green industry and is designed …