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J. Barker Landscaping Company has been featured in regional and national news outlets for our excellent landscape design and installation. Our demolition work, crew management systems, and investment in top notch snow and ice removal machinery have also received positive coverage.
Seasonal Spring Landscaping Tips
Our design and landscape team want to help your landscape look its best every season, particularly during our beautiful northeastern Ohio spring and summer months. This spring season, the J. Barker Landscaping Co. team [...]
True workhorses: Skid-steer and compact track loader trends
Skid-steer loaders and compact track loaders (CTLs) always have been true workhorses in the field. As they continue to grow in popularity, equipment manufacturers are working to make these machines faster, more powerful and more [...]
French Games
The owners of a Cleveland, Ohio, property on Lake Erie requested something unique for their yard — a pétanque court. Brandon Barker, commercial operations manager of J. Barker Landscaping Co., says that this was the [...]
Readers’ Picks: Top 5 ‘Story Of A Landscape’ Features
Each Wednesday on TurfMagazine.com, you can find inspiring design/ build projects from your peers featured in a photo-heavy, step-by-step post by our writer K. Schipper. Each story explains with in-depth detail the challenges and wins [...]
Like A Boss: Communicating Clearly With Crews
Without a system in place to accurately track the statuses of commercial maintenance accounts, Brandon Barker, commercial operations manager for J. Barker Landscaping Company in Bedford, Ohio, was struggling to keep all of the information [...]
Ohio Landscaping Association Merit Award
Residential Installation, Category IIIThis project involved the renovation of an entire lakefront property. Natural stone walls were built to create a private courtyard at the front of the home. A Thermal Bluestone walk and patio [...]
Ohio Landscaper Association Merit Award
MERIT AWARD | J. BARKER LANDSCAPING The tightly manicured lawn sweeps across this vast property that faces Lake Erie. The homeowner has a passion for European design and like crisp, clean lines. The large landscape [...]
What’s In My Truck: Brandon Barker
Brandon Barker, commercial operations manager for J. Barker Landscaping Co. in Bedford, Ohio, says that his 2017 Ford F-150 XLT Crew Cab is perfect for the various tasks that might come up throughout his day [...]
Diversifying with demo work
One landscape company found new work amid the foreclosure crisis. In 2008, the economic downturn left many landscape business owners wondering if they would survive. As businesses and homeowners cut back on expenses, landscaping services [...]
Story of a Landscape: Lakefront Property Gets Euro-Inspired Makeover
A residential project J. Barker Landscaping Company installed in Lakewood, a community west of Cleveland, Ohio is certainly a project that keeps on giving – both to the owners and their landscape team.The property, which [...]