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WINDSOR'S Plantsca e A duty to a legacy
By Julia Harmsworth N umbers and training are the key to the success of Plantscape, a full-service landscape design and maintenance company serving Windsor, Chatham/Kent and Sarnia, Ont. It began — as the name suggests — with plantscaping: transforming indoor spaces with live tropical plants. Since its founding in 1976, the company has grown to provide outdoor maintenance, landscape design and build, and snow and ice management services. Plantscaping now accounts for less than one per cent of the company’s revenue, but general manager Liana Desmarais isn’t ready to give up on it yet. “I’m still trying to breathe some life into it,” she explained, “because of the [company’s] name, I have a hard time letting it go. I think there’s still an opportunity there.” This past spring, Desmarais reached out to one of Plantscape’s oldest clients with an ambitious idea. Both Plantscape and the client will be celebrating anniversaries in 2026 (50 and 60 years respectively) and Desmarais suggested a joint marketing effort to enliven the client’s building and Plantscape’s plantscaping division. The client agreed and the plants were installed in September. Desmarais hopes the soon-to-bloom, high-traffic space will bring some awareness to the benefits of live plants in indoor spaces, and keep her father’s legacy afloat.
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