Commercial Landscaping Services in Chicago
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McFarlane Douglass provides more than just commercial landscaping services for businesses and commercial properties throughout Chicago and Chicagoland. We see the landscape as part of the property’s value, identity, safety, infrastructure, and long-term performance.
Our approach to commercial landscaping combines horticultural expertise, sustainable practices, and proactive management. From soil health and native planting to irrigation, drainage, trees, turf, and hardscape, we manage the landscape from the ground up.
Our goal is to protect the property’s investment, create attractive and functional outdoor environments, use resources responsibly, and support the long-term sustainability of the site.
Our Landscaping Services
Seasonal Color
We design and maintain seasonal displays that bring color, texture, and visual impact to entrances, plazas, planters, streetscapes, and other high-visibility areas, through our seasonal color program.
Plant selections are based on site conditions, seasonal performance, water needs, and overall design, with native and adapted plants incorporated where appropriate.
Landscape Management
McFarlane Douglass provides commercial landscape design, site improvement and construction services for commercial properties throughout Chicago and Chicagoland.
Our capabilities include native and ornamental plantings, green roof installation and restoration, soil and ground improvements, grading, drainage, planters, and site renovations.
We also install hardscape and outdoor amenities, including pergolas, benches, pavers, walkways, gathering areas, and other site features.
Every project is approached with long-term performance, sustainability, maintenance, and the overall property experience in mind. When required, we work from landscape architectural plans, construction drawings, and specifications to ensure the work follows the intended design and technical requirements.
Landscape Management
Make your Christmas tree the centerpiece of your commercial holiday display with custom designs for lobbies, offices, hotels, retail spaces, and other commercial properties.
Our designers coordinate ornaments, lighting, accents, and styling to complement your space, brand, and theme, with options ranging from traditional to contemporary.
Christmas tree décor can also be coordinated with garlands, wreaths, and other holiday elements for a cohesive look.
Lawn & Turf
Our commercial lawn and turf management programs focus on maintaining healthy, attractive, and durable green spaces.
Services may include mowing, edging, fertilization, aeration, overseeding, weed management, and evaluation of soil, irrigation, drainage, shade, and traffic conditions.
Where turf is not the most sustainable solution, we can recommend native groundcovers, perennial planting, or other alternatives better suited to the site.
Year-Round Commercial Landscape Management
Commercial landscapes require attention throughout the year. We focus on seasonal and long term needs of the landscape, creating outdoor environments that remain attractive, functional, sustainable and seasonally appropriate throughout the year.
Our management programs respond to seasonal needs while maintaining a long-term focus on plant health, soil, irrigation, drainage, trees, turf, native landscapes, and site improvements.
Spring: bulb installations from the previous fall, seasonal color, mulching and weed prevention
Summer: seasonal planting and maintenance
Fall: seasonal plantings, fall- clean ups, winter prep
Winter: holiday and winter displays, snow removal, prep for the next growing season.
Our team continuously evaluates each property for opportunities to improve performance, sustainability, appearance, and efficiency.
Commercial Landscaping Solutions
Commercial landscapes perform best when planting, soil, water, drainage, architecture, and infrastructure are managed as one system.McFarlane Douglass provides solutions that improve appearance, increase resilience, reduce recurring problems, support sustainability, and protect the long-term value of the property.
Planting & Site Improvements
We improve commercial landscapes through thoughtful planting and targeted site enhancements.
Our work includes trees, shrubs, perennials, native plants, ornamental grasses, ground covers, soil amendments, screening, planter improvements, and replacement of declining plant material.
Native and adapted plantings can improve resilience, support biodiversity, reduce water use, and create landscapes better suited to Chicago’s climate.
Water, Drainage & Irrigation
Effective water management is essential to a healthy and sustainable commercial landscape.
We manage irrigation systems for properties throughout Chicago, including spring start-up, mid-season checkups, repairs, and adjustments. Proper maintenance improves water efficiency, protects plant material, and supports the overall health of the property.
Given Illinois’ seasonal climate, proper winterization is especially important to protect irrigation lines, valves, and components from costly freeze damage.
We also evaluate drainage, runoff, erosion, soil compaction, and moisture conditions to support healthier ground conditions and protect surrounding property infrastructure.
Tree Care
Trees are a major long-term asset within a commercial landscape.
We monitor tree health, structure, soil and root conditions, pests, disease, clearance, and potential conflicts with buildings, lighting, signage, vehicles, and pedestrian areas.
Proper pruning, soil care, and proactive maintenance help protect tree health, improve safety, and preserve the value of the landscape.
Let’s Transform Your Space
From ongoing landscape management and seasonal color to design, construction, turf care, irrigation, and specialized site improvements, McFarlane Douglass provides commercial landscaping services designed around the needs of your property.
Whether you need dependable year-round maintenance or support for a larger landscape improvement project, our team brings the experience, horticultural knowledge, and local expertise to help keep your Chicago property looking its best.
Request a commercial landscaping consultation with McFarlane Douglass.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who manages my commercial landscape?
At McFarlane Douglass, your property is cared for by a coordinated team—not just an account manager. Crew members, crew leaders, supervisors, our Exterior Coordinator, horticulturist, designer, licensed pesticide professionals, and account managers work together to evaluate each site, discuss its needs, and determine the best approach.
This collaborative structure brings together field experience, horticultural knowledge, design, operations, and client management so decisions are made with the entire property in mind.
We stay obsessed with the landscape, so you don’t have to.
Does a Long-Term Landscaping Partnership Matter?
Many of the properties that we care for benefit from our institutional memory of the property. This is the site-specific knowledge that develops when a consistent team cares for a property over time. Our low employee turnover allows crew members, supervisors, horticultural staff, coordinators, and account managers to understand how each landscape has changed and why.
We remember past construction, drainage issues, planting challenges, site modifications, treatments, and previous solutions— including details that may not be documented or immediately visible. That history helps us avoid repeating mistakes, recognize patterns, and make better decisions.
Long-term management turns that institutional memory into continuity and peace of mind. In downtown Chicago, management companies and individual property managers may change over time, but when McFarlane Douglass remains involved, the landscape’s history stays with us.
You do not have to re-explain the property every time there is a management transition. We can carry forward what we have learned, respond to current needs with greater context, and help protect the landscape’s condition and value year after year.
McFarlane Douglass’s landscaping services gives our clients peace of mind: you don’t have to know the entire history of your landscape because we do.
Can McFarlane Douglass save my company money in the long term?
The lowest price is not always the lowest cost.
At McFarlane Douglass, procurement decisions consider more than the initial purchase price. We look at quality, suitability for the site, availability, durability, lead times, maintenance requirements, replacement risk, and long-term performance.
A less expensive plant, material, or product can quickly become the more costly choice if it fails, requires additional labor, delays a project, or needs to be replaced.
Our goal is to purchase strategically—balancing cost, quality, performance, and long-term value to help protect the property’s investment.
Do you provide commercial snow removal?
Yes, some properties qualify for snow removal. We help businesses and commercial properties throughout Chicagoland maintain safer, more accessible outdoor spaces during the winter months.
What Chicagoland areas do you serve?
McFarlane Douglass provides commercial landscaping services throughout Chicago and the surrounding Chicagoland area. If your property is outside the city, call our team to confirm service availability for your location.
What size commercial properties do you work with?
We work with commercial properties and landscaping projects of varying sizes. Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, our team can develop a landscaping plan based on your property’s size, scope, maintenance needs, and long-term goals.
Do you offer weekly commercial landscape maintenance?
Landscape maintenance schedules are based on the specific needs of each property. Depending on your landscaping, season, and service requirements, our team can recommend an ongoing maintenance schedule that keeps your outdoor spaces healthy, clean, and professionally maintained.
Does McFarlane Douglass provide both interior and exterior landscaping services?
Yes. In addition to exterior commercial landscaping, McFarlane Douglass provides interior plant services for offices and commercial spaces. Our capabilities include interior plant design and installation, plant rentals, ongoing plant care, seasonal floral programs, arrangements, and other ways to incorporate greenery throughout your property.