Plantique Landscaping

We're old neighbors!
Plantique, Inc., first began landscaping in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley region in 1948 under the name Better Homes Landscape Company. What started out as a small family business has grown into one of the largest and most successful design-and-build firms in the region.

All your landscaping needs under one roof
Today we have a staff of 100 full-time employees (110 during peak season), including a large staff of landscape designers and licensed architects, who are our creative force, and an in-house horticulturist. We also have 15 installation crews, a nursery staff, an excavation team, and several specialty service and maintenance divisions of our own to ensure the highest possible standards of customer service.

Each team member at Plantique takes great pride in our ability to offer you a totally customized landscaping program from concept to completion. Our award-winning designers carefully evaluate your wishes so that they can create for you the best possible design. Our horticulturist picks and chooses only the finest, healthiest plants, shrubs, and trees available for our 16-acre nursery, and on site our team of field experts will complete the project to your total satisfaction, guaranteed.

Whether your landscaping plans are large or modest, Plantique is ready to meet your every need. For more than half a century, we have been facilitating all kinds of landscaping projects with craftsmanship and expertise. We take great pride in our reputation as the best in the business, and we will continue to earn this distinction. That's why we own a large fleet of trucks and equipment, which frees us from using multiple contractors. That's why all our work and nursery items come with excellent guarantees. That's why we offer so many different kinds of landscaping services under one roof. We have never lost sight of what is really the bottom line in the landscaping business: quality work.

Bringing you the best in industry innovations and services
Plantique was the first landscaping company to offer customers in the Lehigh Valley power-blown mulching. Our successful Express Mulch Service division uses a state-of-the-art mulching procedure to quickly and economically apply a fresh coat of mulch from a specialized truck parked on the street or in your driveway--without rolling wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow over your lawn. Our technicians simply walk the truck's hose over to where the mulch needs to be laid. It's fast, economical, and clean. Our Forever Green division is a complete tree, shrub, and lawn care service that can also handle other small-scale landscaping projects. Forever Green consists of an extremely knowledgeable and committed team of plant care specialists who can work wonders with diseased, pest-troubled, or damaged trees and shrubs. They also know how to rescue turfgrass from similar problems. Whether working with customers individually or in conjunction with other Plantique team members, our Forever Green staff is a valuable asset to our company.

We take pride in our performance and our award-winning team
Plantique has a long and distinguished history of earning numerous industry and community accolades and honors. These awards and professional achievements all come to us in our quest to bring you the best the landscaping industry has to offer. Our greatest honor has always been earning your business.

We are very proud to have been recently bestowed the following honors:

  • Award of Excellence in Landscape Design/Maintenance from the Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association (PLNA)
  • Best in Show at the Lehigh Valley Builders Association's 2007 Home Show
  • 2007 Lehigh Valley Who's Who Leader in Business Award for best landscape contractor
  • The Morning Call's 2006 Readers' Choice Award for Best Landscaper
  • The Professional Landcare Network's (PLANET) Overall Safety Achievement Award for effective safety programs that create & maintain safe work environments.
  • A chapter profile in the upcoming book Lehigh Valley, Crossroads to the World (Cherbo Publishing Group, 2007)
  • President Michael McShane also recently became Chairperson of the Design/Build Specialty Group, as an Executive Member of PLANET, a national organization of landscaping professionals. 
  • Bruce Fritzinger is currently chairperson of the PLNA Foundation as well as serving on the membership committee. 

Our growing community of customers
Just like your landscaping, our Turf Club is a living, growing community of customers and local residents. Introduced in 2003 as our way of thanking our customers with benefits that extend beyond their original Plantique project. Social gatherings, a bi-annual newsletter, notification of special discounts and an electronic forum for sharing landscaping ideas and news are just some of the benefits Turf Club members enjoy. As for us, we enjoy keeping in touch with our loyal and satisfied clients, as well as their valuable feedback.