The plan is simple, provide home owners quality lawn care services at an affordable price
The plan is simple, provide home owners quality lawn care services at an affordable price
How it all began
In 1986 I started T.P.C. Landscape (Ticen’s Pro-Care) out of my garage in Bloomington, MN. I had one pickup truck and two lawn mowers. My first customers were Shakeys Pizza, Embers restaurants and some smaller apartments in the area. I worked my tail off and soaked up as much information about this business that I possibly could. Slowly I began to grow my business by providing quality work at a fair price. I also began to surround myself with some of the finest people anybody could dream of working with; many of these people are still with me today. It is because of them that I attribute the success of this company. Since the start of T.P.C. Landscape we have grown to maintain numerous town home associations in the southern metro area (lawn mowing, snow plowing and fertilizing, etc.). We have also built up a large design-build landscape department that services many beautiful homes in the area. We offer complete landscape services on new construction and existing homes. This includes irrigation installation and repair, paver patios, retaining walls, plant design and installation, ponds and waterfalls.
Top Choice Fertilizer came about because while driving home I saw a posting sign that a lawn fertilizing company left behind after an application had been made. I watched that lawn for a couple of weeks to see the results of the application; basically there were none. That poor homeowner had unfortunately paid for nothing. The weeds didn’t die, and the grass did not green up (even with plenty of rain). My employees and I have been fertilizing on a commercial scale for years and have turned some of the worst dandelion fields into golf course quality turf. It absolutely drove me crazy to see this take place, especially in my own neighborhood. It was then that I decided to offer our quality-fertilizing program to the single-family homeowner. Our philosophy was, and still is, to use only the finest turf products available and to put them down at the proper rate (no skimping).
We first started out using the name T.P.C. Landscape and it worked out well, but I wanted to differentiate our landscape services from our fertilizer division, so in 2001 I renamed our fertilizer division Top Choice Lawn Care. Since then we have grown our fertilizing services by consistently providing you, the customer, with the quality products and service we promised you.
Tom Ticen
President and Owner