LANDSCAPER of the Year
2012
Flair for Details
BY BILLY R. SIMS
Ryan Youngblood sets high standards for design/ build and estate-maintenance projects that clients appreciate.
S
erving a roster of high-end residential landscaping clients is a tightrope walk. A good example, says Ryan Young-
blood, are the owners of a multi-million- dollar, 6-acre, residential property he has
maintained for three years. "The owner may come home one day and call
with a request to change all of the white plantings to red," says Youngblood, owner of R. Youngblood & Co. (formerly Artistic Landscape Associates) in
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finalist