About Us

About Schmitt's Landscaping

Our people, experience and passion are what make the difference. Nine of our thirteen employees have been with us for more than a decade.

Since 1979, Schmitt’s Landscape Company has been committed to providing homeowners with exceptional Northern Naperville landscaping, Northern Aurora landscaping, Wheaton landscaping, lawn care, maintenance and repair. Schmitt’s Landscape Company’s recipe for success and client satisfaction continues to build upon a tradition of expert labor, superior building materials and years of hands-on experience.

Schmitt’s Landscape Company’s mission is to support homeowners in Northern Naperville, Northern Aurora, North Aurora, Wheaton, Warrenville, Batavia, Glen Ellyn and greater Southwest Chicago in developing a landscape that works and looks great—while also improving the comfort, appeal and value of their homes.

Over the past 40-years Schmitt’s Landscape Company has grown to meet the needs of our clients. Our passionate team of thirteen full-time employees is dedicated to our clients and to the craft of designing, building and maintaining Wheaton landscaping, Northern Aurora landscaping and Northern Naperville Landscaping. We credit our success to the knowledge, experience, and commitment of our employees. Nine of our employees have been with Schmitt’s Landscape Company for twelve years or more!

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Bios

Mark Schmitt Sr

Owner

I consider myself an entrepreneur as much as a landscape contractor. This was sparked at age 13 when my father encouraged me to be my own boss. He never talked about where that goal would lead, but it spoke to me at the time. As I grew up, I was excited about the challenge of working for myself. Finally, at age 18, I started my own business with a passion for landscaping and a $500 graduation gift I received from my grandmother. That was in 1979. Today, 40 years later, Schmitt’s Landscape Company has evolved into a full service landscape company that prides itself in the design, creation, and maintenance of quality landscapes. Above all, working for great customers is what I enjoy most.

A native of Wheaton, I graduated from College of DuPage and Wheaton College. My wife, Colleen, and I have raised 5 children.

Mark Schmitt Jr

Sales and Operations

After graduating Wheaton College in 2014 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Economics, Mark Schmitt Jr. worked in the finance industry for 4 years prior to joining the Schmitt’s Landscape Company team full time in 2018. Mark’s experience of working for his dad during the summers of high school and college provided knowledge of the industry, enabling his return to the family business. He now manages the Maintenance and Snow Removal divisions within Schmitt’s Landscape Company. Mark lives in Wheaton with his wife, Margaret.

Brad Taylor

Landscape Architect

Brad Taylor is the Landscape Architect for Schmitt’s Landscape Company. He joined the team in 2011 and has 39 years of experience in design, cost estimating, and project managing for both commercial and residential projects. Brad takes pride in collaboration and teamwork to create a design highlighting the client’s property. He studied and received a Bachelor’s Degree from Utah State University in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. Brad resides in Wheaton, along with his wife and two daughters.

Our Process

We’ve developed a tried and true method for understanding your needs and a process for building exceptional landscaping.

Over the past 40-years, Schmitt’s Landscape Company has developed a tested method for understanding, planning and constructing residential landscaping projects.

Our three-step process for success for our customers in Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, and surrounding suburbs is as follows:

Step 1: Landscape Analysis

First, Schmitt’s Landscape Company consults with you to identify your needs, objectives and preferences. The information we gather is used to develop a complete landscaping plan for your home. At this stage, we like to meet with you in person, and ideally, to walk with you around your property. This approach gives us better insight into how we can best serve your vision.

Step 2: Landscape Planning

Schmitt’s Landscape Company’s second-step is to review your wants and needs in developing a landscape plan. Depending on how involved you would like us to be in the process, our plans can be as simple as verbal descriptions or more complex, including detailed schematics and drawings showing surface drainage, and rock, plant and tree locations for landscaping your Wheaton or Glen Ellyn Home.

The planning stage is where our expert plant knowledge and experience is critical for success. Schmitt’s Landscape Company carefully considers how fast and large your trees, shrubs and other plants will grow, their size at maturity, and take into account your property’s light, water and soil conditions.

If requested, Schmitt’s Landscape Company can detail various expenses for optional features and segment our landscaping plans into separate phases of installation—providing you with greater freedom and flexibility with budgeting and installation scheduling.

For more complicated landscapes for your Wheaton, Glen Ellyn or surrounding suburbs home, Schmitt’s Landscape Company typically includes:

Installation timetables to meet your schedule and maximize plant life
Detailed drawings to specify features, types of plants and planting locations
Product recommendations to ensure a long-lasting, beautiful new landscape
Placement and selection of retaining walls, decorative stones, pavers and planters
Recommendations on annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees and turf to best meet your needs, and best fit your property’s unique light, water and soil conditions

Step 3: Landscape Planting & Building

In the third-step, Schmitt’s Landscape Company executes your landscaping plan with planting and building. Our expert staff follows the planting and installation schedules for landscaping, carefully noting specifics as to where your plants will be placed in relationship to your house, sidewalks, patios and decks, and other plants.

To boost plant survival rates in landscaping the Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Naperville and surrounding suburbs, we prefer to work with plants that are native to, or grow well in the south west suburbs. To help plants take root and boost health, Schmitt’s Landscape Company fertilizes each plant at time of installation.

Schmitt’s Landscape Company firmly stands behind our planting and plant selection with a one-year replacement guarantee on all of our plantings. So you can breathe easier knowing that we guarantee our plants!

Some of what Schmitt’s Landscape Company plants includes:

Turf
Shrubs
Trees
Evergreens
Annuals

Check Out Our Company History.

We have been in business for 40+ years!

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Schmitt’s Landscape Company

26W109 Embden Lane Wheaton, IL 60189
Phone: +1 630-469-0607

Services

Over the past fourty-years, Schmitt’s Landscape Company has grown to meet the needs of homeowners by segmenting our broad services into five specialized fields: Landscape Design, Hardscape Design, Drainage and Repair, Outdoor Lighting, and Maintenance.

Schmitt’s Landscape Company is committed to providing the very best landscaping in: Batavia, Glen Ellyn, North Aurora, Northern Aurora, Northern Naperville, Warenville, West Chicago, Wheaton, Winfield and St. Charles.