What Makes Rice's an Award-Winning Landscape Partner

When you choose to hire a landscape company, you're putting the appearance and care of your outdoor spaces in someone else's hands. Whether you're transforming an outdated backyard, creating a new outdoor living space, or looking for a team to care for an established property, you want to know that your investment will yield beautiful, lasting results.

Evaluating the company's experience, industry recognition, and long-standing client relationships can help you decide with confidence. Together, these factors demonstrate the quality, expertise, and service a landscape company brings to its work.

At Rice's, we've been building our reputation since 1941. Through the years, our commitment to excellence has earned us industry recognition and lasting client relationships that reflect the standards you can expect when you choose us as your landscape partner.

Decades of Industry Recognition

Rice's work has been recognized by professional landscape organizations for decades. We have earned more than 40 awards from the Ohio Landscape Association (OLA), including numerous Honor Awards. OLA Honor Awards recognize the highest-scoring project within a category, making them a particularly meaningful acknowledgment of the quality of our work.

Rice's has earned awards in numerous categories, demonstrating our skill and expertise across various types of landscaping projects:

• Residential and commercial landscape installation

• Landscape maintenance

• Specialty gardens

• Garden structures and pavements

• Landscape lighting

We’ve also been recognized by the Ohio Green Industry Association (OGIA) for professional landscape design and installation.

Together, these awards represent a history of excellence throughout Ohio's professional landscape industry.

Award-Winning Craftsmanship You Can See

Industry recognition is meaningful, but the results we create for our clients are what matter most. These award-winning projects offer a glimpse of that work.

Lakefront Luxury Project

We received a 2018 OLA Honor Award for Residential Installation for the landscape surrounding this Cape Cod-style lakefront home. The project created an inviting outdoor environment with natural stone, carefully selected plantings, and spaces designed to take advantage of the property's picturesque setting.

Backyard Resort Project

We earned a 2019 OLA Merit Award for transforming this backyard into an outdoor living and entertaining space that includes a pergola, free-form pool, natural stone waterfall, colorful plantings, and cabana. The result demonstrates how thoughtful landscape design can turn a backyard into an extension of the home.

What Makes Rice's Work Award-Winning?

Award-winning work doesn't happen by accident. It comes from consistently holding every project to a high standard, from the first conversation through the finished landscape and beyond.

Generations of Experience

Rice's has been designing, building, and caring for Northeast Ohio landscapes since J.D. Rice founded the company in 1941. More than 80 years later, that experience informs how we approach the region's properties, growing conditions, seasonal challenges, and landscape needs. As a third-generation, family-run company, we're also carrying forward a reputation built one property at a time.

Thoughtful Design and Attention to Detail

Award-winning landscapes require attention to both the big picture and the smallest details. Rice's designs each landscape around the individual property and client, considering how plantings, materials, hardscapes, lighting, and other elements work together to create a cohesive result that complements the home. That attention carries through from the initial design to installation, where thoughtful material choices and skilled craftsmanship bring the plan to life.

Commitment That Continues After Installation

We believe in forming long-term relationships. Many clients return to us for additional projects or rely on our team for ongoing landscape management. That includes some of Northeast Ohio's most recognizable organizations and properties, including Hendrickson International, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Belden Village Mall. Our client testimonials frequently highlight our professionalism, communication, responsiveness, attention to detail, and knowledgeable crews, qualities that help turn an individual project into a lasting landscape partnership.

“Terrific experience with Rice's for new deck, patio and landscape design and construction in 2013... Hired them again in 2014 for front landscape re-design and then again this year for seasonal and weekly lawn and landscape maintenance.”

- Leslie G.

Another client describes a relationship with Rice's that began with a landscape project and grew to include additional improvements and ongoing Estate Landscape Management:

“We’re happy to say that we’ve enjoyed a long, happy relationship with Rice’s Landscapes... We’re such big fans and supporters of Rice’s that we also enjoy the benefits of their Estate Landscape Management services.”

- Rice's client

What Does an Award-Winning Landscape Partner Mean for You?

Awards and decades of experience are worth celebrating, but what matters most is what they mean for your property. With Rice's, you're choosing a team backed by generations of local experience, industry-recognized craftsmanship, broad landscape expertise, and a history of lasting client relationships.

Those credentials reflect the standards we've brought to Northeast Ohio landscapes for more than 80 years and continue to bring to every property we serve.

Learn why homeowners have trusted Rice's for generations. Schedule a consultation with our team to start planning what's next for your landscape.