The Guide: Landscaping & Lawn Care in West Morris, NJ
How to Use This Guide
This guide lists landscaping and lawn care businesses that work in Mendham Borough, Mendham Township, Chester Borough, and Chester Township. It includes businesses that mow, fertilize and clean up properties, and businesses that design and install plantings, drainage, lighting and irrigation.
The Type column says what each business’s own website sells: Maintenance, Design & installation, or Both. The Based in column gives the town the business lists as its base and how that town relates to the towns on this page.
New Jersey does not license landscapers. Home improvement contractors register with the Division of Consumer Affairs, and pesticide and fertilizer applications call for credentials held by the people who apply them. The table prints each business’s registration as read on the register in October 2026, and Additional Resources links the lookups.
About This Guide
This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Landscaping and lawn care businesses appear here because they meet the criteria described above — a website or Google Business Profile of their own, crews that do the work themselves, work in these towns or the county, and independence from a national franchise or lead marketplace. That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No business can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the table says about it. Businesses are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was verified against each business’s own website or Google Business Profile, and its registration against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, in October 2026.
Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says. Where a row carries a verification date, that is when we last checked that business’s record ourselves. A row without one has not been checked recently — that is a fact about our work, not about the business.
Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Mendham Borough, Mendham Township, Chester Borough, and Chester Township. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.
The Landscaping and Lawn Care Businesses, Compared
| Business | Based in | Type | NJ HIC registration, registered to | Certifications, as published | Services, as published | Best For | Record checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avallone Lawn Care | Not published | Maintenance | Not required for maintenance-only work | Not published | fertilization/weed control | weekly maintenance accounts | Oct 2026 |
| Borst Landscape & Design | Allendale, NJ – Regional | Both | 13VH12667300 · Active · MARIANI ENTERPRISES LLC · Allendale · register read Oct 2026 | Not published | mowing; fertilization/weed control; plantings; lighting | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| Cedarwood Landscaping, Inc. | Mendham, NJ – Local | Both | 13VH00637000 · Active · CEDARWOOD LANDSCAPING, INC. · Chester · register read Oct 2026 | ‘NJ Pesticide License #93475A’, as published on their site, Oct 7 2026 | cleanups; plantings; snow | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| D. Panetta Contracting, LLC | Randolph, NJ – Very Close | Both | 13VH00899200 · Active · D. PANETTA CONTRACTING, LLC · Randolph · register read Oct 2026 | Not published | mowing; plantings; lighting; irrigation | weekly maintenance accounts | Oct 2026 |
| Fernandez & Sons Masonry & Landscaping | Not published | Both | 13VH08916400 · Active · FERNANDEZ & SONS MASONRY & LANDSCAPING CORPORATION · Morristown · register read Oct 2026 | Not published | cleanups; plantings; snow | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| Foerster Landscape, Inc. | Mendham, NJ – Local | Both | 13VH00615600 · Active · FOERSTER LANDSCAPE, INC. · Flanders · register read Oct 2026 | Not published | cleanups; plantings; drainage/grading; lighting | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| JBS Landscape | Columbia, NJ – Regional | Both | Not found by us under this name, Oct 2026 | Not published | mowing; fertilization/weed control; cleanups; snow | weekly maintenance accounts | Oct 2026 |
| Lakeland Landscaping | Wharton, NJ – Morris County | Both | 13VH00716100 · Active · LAKELAND LAWN & LANDSCAPING CO., INC · Wharton · register read Oct 2026 | ‘ICPI, Techo-Pro, Cambridge, EP Henry certified’, as published on their site, Oct 7 2026; NCMA logo shown on their site, Oct 7 2026; NJLCA logo shown on their site, Oct 7 2026 | cleanups; plantings; lighting; snow | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| LBD Landscaping LLC | Not published | Design & installation | 13VH00507900 · Active · LBD LANDSCAPING, LLC D/B/A LANDSCAPES BY DESIGN · Chester · register read Oct 2026 | Not published | plantings | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| LTD Nursery & Landscaping | Bernardsville, NJ – Very Close | Both | Not found by us under this name, Oct 2026 | Not published | mowing; fertilization/weed control; plantings; lighting | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| Majestic Mowing & Landscaping LLC | Not published | Both | Not found by us under this name, Oct 2026 | Not published | fertilization/weed control; cleanups; plantings; drainage/grading | weekly maintenance accounts | Oct 2026 |
| Parker Landscape Design | Warren, NJ – Regional | Design & installation | 13VH03396000 · Active · PARKER HOMESCAPE LLC · Warren · register read Oct 2026 | Not published | plantings; drainage/grading; lighting | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| Russ Landscaping | Long Valley, NJ – Very Close | Both | 13VH08011000 · Active · RUSS LANDSCAPE AND LAWN SERVICES T/A ROMAN RUSS · Port Murray · register read Oct 2026 | Not published | mowing; plantings; cleanups; drainage/grading | weekly maintenance accounts | Oct 2026 |
| Sage Landscape Contractors | Watchung, NJ – Regional | Both | 13VH00324500 · Active · SAGE LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS, INC. · North Plainfield · register read Oct 2026 | Not published | mowing; cleanups; plantings; drainage/grading | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| TM Landscaping LLC | Randolph, NJ – Very Close | Both | Not found by us under this name, Oct 2026 | Not published | plantings | full-property design and planting | Oct 2026 |
| Y’s Landscaping | Not published | Both | Not found by us under this name, Oct 2026 | Not published | mowing; plantings; drainage/grading | weekly maintenance accounts | Oct 2026 |
Towns, types, certifications and services are each business’s own, taken from its own website or Google Business Profile in October 2026. Registration numbers, registered names, statuses and towns were read on the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs register in October 2026. Not found by us under this name means we did not find a registration under the name the business uses; it does not say the business has none. Not required for maintenance-only work is printed where the business’s own website sells maintenance only. Certifications are each business’s own statement on its own website, and we have not confirmed them with the issuing body. Not published means the source we read does not say.
Common Questions
What does the Type column mean?
Maintenance means the business’s own website sells recurring property care such as mowing and cleanups. Design & installation means it sells planting, drainage, lighting or irrigation work. Both means the website sells each.
Does New Jersey license landscapers?
No. New Jersey does not license landscapers. Home improvement contractors register with the Division of Consumer Affairs, and pesticide and fertilizer applications call for credentials held by the individuals who apply them.
What does Not found by us under this name mean?
It means we did not find a registration under the name the business uses on its website. It does not say the business has none. Not required for maintenance-only work is printed where the business’s own website sells maintenance only.
How do I check a registration myself?
Open the Division of Consumer Affairs license verification search linked under Additional Resources, choose Business Search, and enter the registered name or the registration number printed in the table.
Where can I see fertilizer applicator certifications?
Rutgers publishes the ProFACT certified applicators list, linked under Additional Resources. Certifications in the table are each business’s own statement, and we have not confirmed them with the issuing body.
Page built and verified: October 7, 2026.
Additional Resources
- Hardscaping & Outdoor Living in West Morris, NJ
- New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs license verification
- Rutgers ProFACT certified applicators list
Something out of date?
This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a name, an address, a registration number, or whether a business has closed — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly.
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This is not a ranking.