| Landscape Designs was founded in 1997 |
| Owner and President, Steve Lesch
began designing residential landscape in 1973. |
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| The company specializes in owner
occupied residential landscapes. |
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areas of Southern Wisconsin. |
| Landscape services include comprehensive
landscape design and installation including: |
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Comprehensive site analysis |
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Drainage correction |
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Entrances |
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Patios |
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Walks |
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Driveways |
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Retaining walls, timber, natural stone, and modular concrete |
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Brick and Paver installations |
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Aquatic features, Ponds and Waterfalls |
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Boulderology |
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Theme gardens |
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Rock gardens |
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Zen Gardens |
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Oriental Gardens including Japanese and Chinese |
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Tree, Shrubs, Bushes, Herbaceous & Bulbous
perennials. Please see our availability lists. |
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12-volt landscape and garden lighting |
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Steve Lesch is one of the first certified
Nightscapers® in
Wisconsin being certified in 1983. |
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Landscape consultation and assessments, included tape recorded
and or digitally imaged. |
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| Our landscaping operations and
plant nursery are located at: 3290 Elvehjem Rd. McFarland,
WI. |
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| In addition to purchasing finished stock, we also annually
grow about 15,000 herbaceous perennials and woody ornamentals at
our McFarland Nursery. |
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Other activities: |
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• Sponsors the Olbrich Botanic
Gardens Summer Home Garden Tours http://www.olbrich.org |
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• Publishes two plant related
newsletters per year available on this web site |
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• Owner Steve Lesch lectures
at numerous garden clubs and plant societies and other interested
organizations. |
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The Garden Expo www.wpt.org/gardenexpo |
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Master Gardeners http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/ |
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Olbrich Botanic Gardens http://www.olbrich.org |
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University of WI, Madison, Horticulture http://www.horticulture.wisc.edu |
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| Steve
Lesch is one of the original and continuing committee members of
the WI Public Television Garden Expo since 1994 |
| Steve Lesch co-founded
and is a current member of the following: |
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The Wisconsin Hardy Plant Society http://www.madison.com/communities/wisconsinhardyplantsociety |
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The Hosta Society (Wisconsin) |
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The Wisconsin
Daylily Society http://www.wisdaylilysoc.org |
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| We are also members of the following organizations |
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Perennial Plant Association, Charter Member http://www.perennialplant.org/index.asp |
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International
Bulb Society http://www.bulbsociety.org |
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American Hemerocallis
Society http://www.daylilies.org |
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North American Rock
Garden Society http://www.nargs.org |
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Royal Horticultural
Society http://www.rhs.org.uk |
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Wisconsin
Mycological Society http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/7331/index.html |
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