Three brothers, one truck, and a long love letter to Cobb County.
Granger Landscaping started in a gravel driveway in Marietta in 2009. Seventeen years later we're still here, still family-run, still showing up on the same day each week, only with a few more trucks and a lot more crew.
A side hustle that wouldn't quit.
Bill Granger spent fifteen years as a project manager for a regional commercial landscaper before he and his two brothers (Tom and Henry) started cutting yards on the weekends. Word travelled fast. By the end of that first summer they'd booked enough weekly accounts to make the math work, and by spring 2010 all three were full-time.
What started as a way to escape boardrooms and bad coffee turned into a real business. But the rule from the very first weekend stayed the rule. Show up when you say you will. Do the job you said you'd do. Treat every yard like it's your grandmother's.
We never set out to be the biggest landscaper in Cobb. We set out to be the one your neighbor recommends without thinking.
Today we still operate out of a converted barn on Roswell Street, a mile from where the first truck was parked. Bill's daughter Mara runs the design side. Tom's son Will manages our hardscape crew. The yards we mowed in 2009 are mostly still on the route. Only now we're cutting their kids' yards, too.
A few of the seasons that shaped us.
- 2009
First mow, first invoice.
Bill, Tom, and Henry cut their first paying yard on a Saturday in April. By Labor Day, they had eighteen weekly accounts and a hand-painted sign on a single Ford F-150.
- 2012
The barn on Roswell Street.
We bought the lot we'd been renting equipment space in. Still there today. The original Granger sign is hanging inside the front door.
- 2014
Adding the design studio.
Mara joined full-time after finishing her landscape architecture degree at UGA. Our first full backyard rebuild, a Vinings property still on our care route, wrapped that fall.
- 2018
In-house hardscape crew.
We stopped subcontracting patio and wall work. Will took over a dedicated four-person hardscape team: same trucks, same uniforms, same calendar.
- 2021
A pandemic with a green lining.
Folks rediscovered their backyards. We doubled our design queue, hired four more crew members, and learned how to run a video walkthrough.
- 2026
Still showing up Tuesday morning.
800+ properties on weekly care, a dozen new installs each season, and a lot more grandkids on the payroll. Same rule from 2009 still applies.
A few rules we don't bend.
We've been at this long enough to know the corners that matter and the ones that don't. These three are the ones we won't cut, even when someone else's quote comes in cheaper.
- i.
Show up on the day.
If we say Tuesday, we mean Tuesday. Rain pushes us to Wednesday; nothing else does. Every weekly client gets the same crew on the same day, year-round, no exceptions.
- ii.
Quote it once, finish it once.
Our estimates are flat: no creep, no surprise add-ons. If we missed something in the bid, that's our problem to absorb, not yours to pay for.
- iii.
Plant for the next owner.
We design for thirty years, not three. That means natives where they belong, hardscape that will stand the test of time, and a maintenance plan a future homeowner can actually keep up with.
The people in your yard.
You're not going to meet a different stranger every week. Here are a few of the folks who'll actually show up, with a brief note on what they spend their off-Saturdays doing.
Bill Granger
Founder & estimatorStarted the business in 2009. Will probably be the one who walks your property the first time. Spends Saturdays restoring an old Massey-Ferguson tractor.
Tom Granger
Operations & maintenanceRoutes the trucks, manages the weekly care side, and remembers every client's gate code. Coaches youth baseball over at East Cobb Park.
Henry Granger
Co-founder & shop foremanKeeps the trucks running, the equipment sharp, and the barn in one piece. Drove the original 2009 F-150 until it finally gave up in 2019. Restores wooden boats down at Lake Allatoona on his off weekends.
Mara Granger
Lead landscape designerUGA-trained landscape architect, joined the family business in 2014. Native plant nerd. Will absolutely talk your ear off about mountain laurels.
Will Granger
Hardscape leadRuns the patio and wall crew. Certified ICPI installer. Will eat anything off the grill except eggplant.
Diego Reyes
Senior crew leaderTwelve years on the maintenance side. Probably the reason your beds look the way they do. Restores vintage bicycles in his garage.
Anna Schiller
Office & client careThe voice on the other end of the phone. Schedules every walkthrough and quietly keeps the entire shop on time. Beekeeper with eight hives.
Jamal Whitaker
Irrigation & lighting leadRuns the sprinkler and low-voltage side of the shop. Eight years tuning zones and burying cable cleanly. Plays upright bass in a bluegrass quartet that gigs around Marietta Square most Fridays.
We don't just work in Marietta. We're from here.
Three of us grew up off Roswell Street, went to Marietta High, learned to drive on the back roads of Powder Springs. We sponsor the East Cobb little league, plant every spring at the public library, and donate the fall cleanup at the Marietta History Center. The trucks you see at six a.m. on Whitlock: those are ours. The yard with the wildflower meadow on Polk Street that everyone slows down for in May: also ours.
Get a free walkthrough- 17 years serving Cobb
- 800+ yards on weekly care
- 14 full-time crew
- 0 subcontractors used