Rutland, VT and Rutland County, with projects elsewhere in Vermont including Lake Bomoseen and Quechee.
About Pratico's Landscaping & Fence
Late in a Rutland April, when the gray crust finally lets go of the north-facing banks and the Taconics start greening from the valley floor upward, the trucks at Pratico's Landscaping & Fence fill with cedar and stone and the year turns over into building weather. They set fence — split rail, wood cedar, vinyl, chain link, aluminum ornamental, horse fence — draw landscape designs to the lines of a particular house and then put them in the ground, raise arbors and pergolas, build kennels, and haul mulch, topsoil and stone; their nursery keeps evergreens, shade trees, flowering shrubs, roses, hostas and perennials waiting in rows for the frost to lift. There is a plain, physical satisfaction in a fence line that runs true across a sloped lot, in a bed mulched dark and edged clean, in lawn kept even to the property's edge. Do it right and the hosta border fills back in every June without being asked, and the posts still stand plumb after a winter of heaves. From town lots along Route 7 to camps out at Lake Bomoseen and houses over toward Quechee, the work stays with a place long after the truck pulls away.