Holmes Landscape Company

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Welcome to Holmes Landscape Company on the World Wide Web! This section is for interested people to find out more about our company - who we are, what we believe, why we are in business, and what our customers feel about the service we provide them. If we haven't answered all your questions, please send me an e-mail message at larry@holmeslandscape.com.

Our Process
Holmes Landscape Company provides high quality landscape services incorporating the most innovative technologies and techniques. We assist our clients by providing landscape design and renovations, soil and plant fertility programs, problem soil solutions, and weekly water management and usage monitoring.

We attend to all of the following on a routine and frequent basis:
New customer process
Site analysis and soil testing
Goal setting
Renovating and upgrading
Weekly landscape maintenance
Irrigation auditing and management
Customer relations

Our process has proven successful and effective, as these examples show. (Click on a photo to learn more about the solutions we provide our customers.)
Before	After	Before	After

As a result, our customers say the following about Holmes Landscape Company:

"Takes the extra step ..."
"Goes beyond the contract ..."
"Reliable,consistent and reasonable ..."
"Extremely responsible, works beyond the call of duty ..."

For current references, call Holmes Landscape Company at 760.732.3379, or
contact Larry Holmes directly at larry@holmeslandscape.com.

Company Background
Larry C. Holmes, President of Holmes Landscape Company, attended Fallbrook High school and Palomar College before graduating from Mira Costa College with honors in 1975. It was at Mira Costa College as a horticulture student of Mr. William Thompson, that Larry developed his deep interest in ornamental horticulture.

While still a student, Larry became a licensed Landscape Contractor in 1974, and formed Holmes Landscape Company. For the next few years he did design build work for residential homeowners that involved mostly landscaping and irrigation. Realizing that concrete work, retaining walls and hardscape items were as essential to large-scale projects as landscaping and irrigation, Larry obtained his General Builders License in 1978.

Over the next few years Holmes Landscape Company expanded its business to include large custom houses and commercial projects. Major projects during this period included: the Cassidy Street Stairs for the City of Oceanside, Woodland Park for the City of San Marcos, picnic shelters for the City of San Diego School System, landscape irrigation for the Navy at 32nd Street, and the Point Loma street landscape renovation project for the Navy.

In 1982, Holmes Landscape Company expanded its business once again to include commercial landscape maintenance. The Burroughs Corporation in Carlsbad was among the company's first commercial business customers, and Peacock Meadows in Oceanside its first Homeowner Association client. Both remain Holmes Landscape Company customers to this day.

In 1985, Mira Costa College invited Larry to return as a teacher. Today, he continues to teach 1 to 2 landscape management and landscape construction courses a year at his alma mater, and attributes his teaching career to helping him keep on top of his field.

During the company's first five years, Larry drove the one truck and was both owner and foreman on jobs. As the business expanded and grew, a second and a third truck were added, and more employees hired. Today, Holmes Landscape Company operates 15 trucks and has more than 45 employees.

Holmes Landscape Company Crew

The success of Holmes Landscape Company has been attributed to the personal integrity and hard work of Larry Holmes, and to the many bright and energetic people that work for him. With a work philosophy based on attention to detail, innovation, and customer service, Holmes Landscape Company has grown to become one of San Diego County's leading landscape maintenance companies.

Credentials

Licenses

• California Landscape Contractor since 1974, license #861133 (expires July 31, 2011)
• State Qualified Applicator for landscape chemicals, license #35597 (expires December 31, 2010)
• State of California - Certified Landscape Irrigation Auditor.
• California State Teaching Credential #324687 for Ornamental Horticulture.
• Certified Arbolist.
  

Affiliations

• Currently teaching a college class in Horticulture - Landscape Management/Landscape Construction
• Head Advisor for Mira Costa College Horticulture Committee.
• North San Diego County Gardeners Association board member and past president.
• California Gardeners Federation current member.
• California Landscape Contractors Association current member and past vice-president of the San Diego Chapter.
  
  • Past Board Member of the CLCA Water Conservation Board.
  • Past Board Member of the CLCA Education Committee

Awards

• California Landscape Contractors Association Award Winner
  
  
  • Excelsior Award
  • Special Effects Award
  • Project Renovation Award
  • Large Commercial Homeowners Association Achievement Award
• California Gardeners Federation
  
  
  • Award Winner - Large Commercial Maintenance Project.
  • Award Winner - Large Commercial Maintenance Project.
  • Award Winner - Executive Award - Best Commercial Project.

Holmes Landscape Company 4616 North Avenue, Oceanside, CA 92056 760.732.3379760.598.3500 Fax larry@holmeslandscape.com "Always looking to improve ourselves, our workers, and the quality of our work." ©1996-2010 Holmes Landscape Company. All Rghts Reserved. Web site by JE Web Design.