ABOUT J&S LANDSCAPE, INC.
J&S Landscape – Serving Boulder, Weld, Laramie, Adams, & Broomfield Counties of Northern Colorado
J&S Landscape doesn’t have a sensational history. It’s actually a simple tale of two go-getter kids, Scott Haugland and Jay Froshaug. They knew what they wanted and went after it. Like many kids in the early 70’s, Scott was a dedicated viewer of the TV series “The Dukes of Hazard.” The stars of that series would race from scene to scene in a souped-up 1969 Dodge Charger, the favored hot rod sports car of the day.
Scott really wanted that car, so Scott did what most of us would do and asked good ol’ dad to buy it for him. Scott’s dad did what most of our dads would do. He told Scott that if he wanted a car, he had toearn it and asking the neighbors to mow their lawns was a good place to start. Scott took this advice to heart and asked his best friend Jay if he wanted to join him.
With that partnership established, J&S Landscaping was born.
Scott and Jay worked their way through junior high, high school, and college summers mowing lawns and completing small landscape projects for their dedicated customers. The Dodge Charger went by the wayside, but the fun of having their business remained. Together they learned how to get things done. Scott then went off to college where he studied business. After graduation, he tried the office scene but not for long. Office life couldn’t compete with being in the outdoors, and J&S Landscape was soon a full-time business. While Jay found his own path, Scott preserved the company name out of respect for his roots.
Over the next 23 years, J&S Landscape grew into a thriving landscape design and construction firm. Scott’s simple but effective “we’ll get it done!” approach to every job allowed for learning new skills and honing exceptional talents on each project.
Scott went off to college where he studied business. After graduation, he tried the office scene but not for long. Office life couldn’t compete with being in the outdoors, and J&S Landscape was soon a full-time business. While Jay found his own path, Scott preserved the company name out of respect for his roots.
Over the next 23 years, J&S Landscape grew into a thriving landscape design and construction firm. Scott’s simple but and effective “We’ll get it done!” approach to every job allowed for learning new skills and honing exceptional talents on each project.
The company now specializes in superior quality landscaping for some of the nicest homes in Boulder, Weld, Laramie, Adams, and Broomfield counties of Northern Colorado. Scott still maintains the friendly approach and down-home communication style that he learned while mowing lawns as a youngster. For him, it’s about relating to all walks of life and working diligently to earn each client’s trust.
As the company grew, Scott meticulously assembled a full-service team of over 25 masterful and hard-working landscape professionals. While the industry is known for tremendous employee turnover, J&S Landscape has established a long-term and unified staff, which greatly increases its ability to deliver top quality and complete every project on time. It also inspires customer satisfaction.
You know J&S Landscape customers are happy when you drive through a residential area and see that 50-80% of the homes in the development are using their services. That’s one reason why you won’t see advertisements in all the local fine home magazines. Instead, they rely on the best marketing you can’t buy, highly satisfied customers who share their success stories with friends and in online reviews. Now that you’ve gotten to know J&S Landscape, please feel free to call us about your landscape project. We look forward to partnering with you and exceeding your expectations.
Meet the Team
Scott Haugland
Owner Of J&S Landscape, Inc.
Some of us were born to do a particular thing in their life, while other folks have to look around for a time to eventually figure it out. I’m pretty sure I was born to be a landscaper. Landscapers usually don’t choose this kind of work to make a ton of money or become famous. More often than not, the reason it’s a “chosen” profession is because it’s a way to work outdoors and on a variety of projects each day. Another reason that I enjoy this work is because when we’re done, we can see, feel, hear, and smell the tangible results…and then it grows and gets even better!
On any given Sunday, any member of our team can load the family up and drive by a newly finished landscape or through a neighborhood we’ve been working on and show them what we’ve been doing from Monday through Saturday. It’s why I’ll still check on our jobs some years later. I simply like to see
how the choices we made worked out for you.
I started working at 11 years old, when my dad had the idea that I ask some of my neighbors if I could mow their lawns and make some money. Mowing lawns fit right in with some of the things I enjoyed. It was fun meeting new people and helping them get something done when they didn’t have the time or the inclination to do it themselves. I also got to work with my buddy Jay (thus the J&S name) and the jobs we picked up kept me busy in the summer, between ball practice and fall hunting with Dad. I’m not someone who likes sitting around the house.
After a few summers of mowing lawns, I guess I got a bit of a reputation as a trustworthy kid who liked the challenge of getting things done. Mowing expanded to adding some trees, fixing a sprinkler head, adding mulch, and much more. Maybe I had no business doing some of those little extra projects, but I’ve always had the attitude of, “sure, I’ll try to do that for you!” Ultimately, it was great training for me to see what worked and didn’t work in landscape design and construction. A lot of good ideas on paper just didn’t work when they went into the ground.
I kept this business going all through high school and even into my college summers. When I finished college with my business management degree, I thought I was set on a new career in business. One year of office life later and I realized that I really missed being outside in Colorado. I called my dad and asked him if he would help me buy a Bobcat loader so I could start a real company. He hopped on board and that’s when we really started out on this journey as a landscaping company.
I think that maybe I was born to help people. That’s how I approach it when people call us up and ask us to look at their homes to make them a pretty place to live. One of my beliefs is that most people know what they want if I listen long enough and let them talk through it. I try to guide a bit so they’ll make smart choices, but I don’t try to impose all my ideas. I just try and lead them to good results that they’ll enjoy for many years. Maybe that’s why we’ve been around as long as we have…we focus on giving you what you want.
Of course, nobody succeeds without a lot of good people. I’ve been really lucky with that too. It started out with some enthusiastic customers who liked what I did with their yards and couldn’t stop telling their friends and neighbors about us. That’s been my main advertising “program” for over 30 years. People telling other people. It’s a pretty good program, but hard to do. I’ve also been extremely fortunate to find a great bunch of people to help me do this every day. Again, luck played a role in finding talented, hard-working, and honest people who understand teamwork. If they didn’t care so much about doing a good job and learning new things along the way, we wouldn’t be the landscaping company we are today.
We might be a little different than many of the landscaping companies in the Boulder, Longmont, and even Denver area. We don’t put a lot of signs on our trucks or in our customers’ front yards. We rely on the simple idea of “word of mouth.” It’s one reason that when we start on one yard in a neighborhood, we end up doing 50-60% of the other homes in the area.
We also haven’t been known for putting a lot of money into the slick full-page ads that you see in local advertisements. We believe in the basic principle of treating people right, keeping promises, and delivering great value. It might be old-fashioned, but it’s the type of old-fashioned that won’t go out of
style.
I sincerely hope that you’ll take a good look at us when you’re looking to have your landscape worked on. I think we’re born to do it.
Ryan Spinharney
Landscape Design &Sales
Ryan Spinharney started out in Omaha, Nebraska, in his early teens pushing a lawnmower around the neighborhood, searching for mowing clients. He quickly was picked up by a local landscaper and began working with residential and commercial installs. In the mid 90’s, he was hired on to an interior/exterior landscaping firm and began attending college for horticulture and landscape design.
In 1997, Ryan took a snowboarding trip to Steamboat, Colorado and decided that Colorado would soon become home. In 1999, he moved out to Boulder to pursue music and to start an interior/exterior landscaping company. Specializing in commercial and residential customers, Ryan’s company developed a great list of clients where they designed, installed, and maintained landscapes.
After 20 years as a small business owner and 10+ years as a sustainable landscaper/edible gardener, he decided to sell off his business and team up with other ecological landscapers in Boulder County. Ryan also went to school for permaculture design in Beaverton, Oregon, where low-impact agriculture, sustainable ecology, soil restoration, and botany studies were all a part of the curriculum.
Ryan’s other passions include being a singer-songwriter, performing locally and regionally. He is also married with five children and enjoys spending much of his time with them outdoors in the Colorado mountains, with an ongoing curiosity that makes him a life-long learner.
Mike Woods
Landscape Design & Sales
Coming from a small Iowa town, Mike had the opportunity to grow up around gardens and farms. Since finishing a horticulture degree, he has continued to work and study gardens and how to skillfully create them for his many landscape projects. Mike has made Colorado his home since 1985 and incorporated gardening ideas and inspiration from our region’s most skilled garden experts.
He takes pride in developing useful and interactive gardens that burst with color and have that special Colorado feeling. His passion is gardening at his home with his wife, chasing his dogs down local trails, and learning more about the countless options he can use for your home’s landscape. Mike looks forward to helping you discover and understand all that your home can become.
Jesus Del Rio
Irrigation Manager
Jesus is our old pro with irrigation repairs and sprinkler layouts. Since joining the J&S team in 2001, he’s proven himself to be an excellent sprinkler repair technician, as well as a master of installing impressive night lighting and other electrical systems. In his free time, Jesus enjoys taking his wife and three kids fishing. When it comes to landscaping services in Boulder, you simply won’t work with anyone nicer than Jesus. Please feel free to call 303-483-5116 to schedule an appointment with him directly.