We are proud to announce that our project, "Lakeside Retreat," won the prestigious Judges' Award at the Illinois Landscape Contractors Association Excellence in Landscape Awards Night. Also, our project, "A Family's Private Wisconsin Camp," won a Judges' Award at the...
Culture has been a big topic. We want to focus on our people. Last year we created a Culture Committee, a representative body whose mission was to revamp our mission and core values. This August, we launched a new initiative to educate our employees about our new...
The Windy City is known for its towering skyscrapers, extensive suburbs, and urban landscape, but a recent trend brings Chicago back into the environmental spotlight. Over 500 buildings have invested in green roofs, building rooftops that are covered with vegetation....
With every warm day, our flower yard (we affectionately call “Flowerland”) at Scott Byron & Co. grows in size, color, and variety. The flowers, sourced from the finest horticultural gardens, bring a light and positive energy to our company. Employees can glance...
While conducting post-winter assessments of client properties, Scott Byron & Co. representatives have been observing a great degree of winter damage to boxwood shrubs. This damage can be due to several causes. Winter desiccation (dehydration), boxwood leaf miner...
When most of us think of community or school gardens, we might think of a small patch near the playground, perhaps a raised bed or two with rows of easy-to-grow vegetables. This client had something different in mind and knew Scott Byron and Company could pull it off....
“I was playing sports in college and my father told me I had to make a decision about what I was going to do. I had a friend in the landscape architecture program at school, and I thought it looked interesting. On the first day of class, the professor told us to look...
When children arrive for their first day of school at Forrestal Elementary School in North Chicago on August 15th, they will see a dramatic improvement in the appearance of the school. New trees, curb paint, plants, playground mulch, drainage and sidewalk improvements...
Last Saturday, approximately 80 Scott Bryon & Co. employees bused ourselves over to Hyde Park Elementary School in Waukegan to help clean and fix-up their school playground. It was amazing in many ways; not only did we have the chance to give back to the...