Testimonial for EnviroScape in Madison Indiana

"From the very beginning of this project, you attended to every detail and installed only the best quality materials that you could find.
Judging from all of the posititve response we have received, not only internally but from the traveling public as well, I would have to consider this project a job well done. I would welcome any of you all back on any project in my charge.

-Michael Czerwonka
Project Manager, Louisville Airport

"I am delighted with my new garden. I think it captures the essence of the early 19th Century design I was seeking to match my 1825 Federal Style house with. Also it incorporates our favorite plantings and will be reliable and relatively low maintenance. It will grow with beauty and adds to the overall elegance of the house.
Thank you for working with my mother and me on the design and selection of plantings. I appreciated how you listened well to what we wanted, incorporating our ideas and desires, and were willing to make corrections as needed.
It turned our great! I appreciate you and John's follow up to ensure total customer satisfaction."

Kay's Garden was featured on the 2001 "Madison in Bloom" Spring Garden Tour.

On Behalf of the Church, I personally want to thank you for trimming the holly trees. And I feel sure if they could talk (trees), they'd tell you how much they like "your cut" (more) than they'd have received from a lay person.
The luscious red berries were put to view in many places. Besides the 1825 house, they were packaged with the other greenery and given to persons who had helped at the carriage house - so they adorned my private home

The crew was diligent and hardworking, willing to complete the work to our wishes and did an overall excellent job

It's good to know there are workmen who take pride in what they do and are willing to please the customer!! Thanks

The trust I have in Steve's advise is the main reason I called Enviroscape. Thank you for another job well done.

Thanks again for being a very important part of Coach Gary O'Neal's salute. Your kind, generous gift not only adds an aesthetic touch, but reflects the deep respect and appreciation of two former players. It was so kind of you.

Thanks for speaking to the Landscape Architecture, Construction and Management class at Jennings County High School. The students had many positive comments about the presentation, and we hope that you will come back next year.

This Article appeared in the Madison Courier and was written by James V. Carroll

For Melinda Dougherty, Christmas has never been the same since her son, 18-year-old Bill McClain, was killed in a car accident on Chicken Run Road in early 1994.

The pain of her loss remains, but Daugherty has taken comfort each Christmas since by decorating a tree in a field atop a ridge on Wright Hill Road near Manville.
It's the same field that she scattered the cremated remains of her son. It's the same field Bill McClain loved in life and forever Occupies in death.

"I just wanted to do something to keep my son's memory alive. I wanted people to remember him, if only for a moment as they passed that tree each Christmas," said Daugherty from her Lake Havasu, Arizona home. He loved that place and it just seemed right to me."
And thus a tradition was born. Each Christmas season passersby found their way atop Wright Hill, ever higher and higher from the valley below. And suddenly -to one side, seemingly in the middle of nowhere there appeared a Norway spruce covered with Christmas decorations. Ornaments lovingly placed by a loving mother - a grieving mother.

"I guess folks that lived in the area might have suspected it was me, but for the first couple of years I didn't tell anyone. I just did it," said Dougherty. "I bet a lot of people thought it was just a neat thing and didn't know the tree was decorated for Bill. But I did.

Early this month it appeared that Dougherty's Christmas tradition had ended at the whim of a thief. The tree was cut down and spirited away presumably to adorn the thief s home..

The criminal act did not go unnoticed by Satolli and Beverly Glassmeyer, absentee owners of the land atop the ridge. The Dearbom County couple planted the tree shortly after they purchased the land in January 1994.

The Glassmeyers watched the little tree grow from near-sapling to a seven-foot adolescent conifer. It was their favorite tree and they enjoyed seeing it decorated each Christmas. They were angered to find it chopped down earlier this month.
So too, were Jim Pruitt, a realtor, and John Bruns, who owns a landscaping business. Neither knew Dougherty, but both thought it a shame there would be no Christmas tree this year to decorate. The two men talked and decided to get permission to plant another Norway spruce. The Glassmeyers agreed and Dougherty was amazed that strangers, would care enough to go out their way to & "Well, I'm just tickled to death that they are so nice, she said.

Dougherty learned that the tree had been cut down from her good friend Pam Denning, who, Dougherty s absence, planned to decorate the tree this year. The tradition should continue, Denning said.

So, deciding to go ahead, Denning decorated another, tree nearby. But it just didn't seem the same, she said.

Pruitt, Bruns and two of Bruns employees Dustin Peters and Tim Carson - arrived atop Wright Hill Road Thursday afternoon armed with the tools of the trade to plant a new tree. An hour later, the planting completed, a six-foot Norway Spruce stood tall, occupying the same spot as its ill-fated predecessor.

I don t know of whoever cut down the tree knew the significance, said Daugherty. I hope not. But I do hope they know now what they have done. It was a terrible thing.

But something good has come of the ordeal, Daugherty said. A beautiful tree once again stands, thanks to strangers who didn t have to go out of their way to get involved.

I thank both John and Jim from the bottom of my heart. They will never know how much their kindness means to me, said Daugherty.

But Pruitt may know first-hand the pain that Daugherty felt when learning that the Wright Hill Road tree had been cut down. His sister, too, lost a child and has decorated an angel tree each Christmas since.

It sort of hit close to home when I read the story about the tree, said Pruitt. John and I talked about it and decided to plant a new one. It seemed to be the right thing for us to do.