Page 102 - Southern Oregon Magazine Summer 2022

welcome home | landscape

Ground Control Landscape Supply
was started in 2001 by Eric and Lisa
Artner as the first locally-owned
blower truck company in the Rogue
Valley. In 2009, Jason Artner (son)
and his wife Cori joined the company,
making it a truly family-run business. Since
then the company has continued to grow in
both scope and size, all to serve the land-
scape community.

“We currently have a fleet of four blower
trucks and two conveyor trucks,” says Artner.
“We can install most materials three hundred
feet off the truck with our blower trucks and
one hundred feet away with our conveyor
trucks.” This is particularly important when
trying to supply materials for hard to reach
areas like backyards, under house crawl
spaces, behind retaining walls, or when try-
ing to get materials past sensitive areas. They
can even provide materials to roof-top gar-
dens or overhead sites. “We are also the only
material placement company in Southern
Oregon that can blow in aggregate with our
Express Blower trucks.”

Along with providing clean and reliable
installation services, Ground Control also
sells materials directly to customers as a retail
location. “Our retail yard offers pick up of
bark, soil, rock, natural stone, boulder, hard-
scape paver, and retaining wall block,” says
Artner. “We work directly with home own-
ers, contractors, and municipalities, and our
office staff is always here to help you choose
the right product for your application.”

“Some factors to consider when choosing the
correct materials for ground cover are high
winds, pets, weed suppression, color, texture,
and sliverless materials,” says Artner. “One
of our most popular products is our beauty
bark because it hits so many of these points.”
Bark also has the advantage of providing more
nutrients to soils in the natural process of its
lifetime in a landscape.

But homeowners have also been requesting
more options after some of the realities of the
past few years. “Customers have become more
concerned about flammable materials along-
side their homes. Listening to our customers,
we have brought in a variety of decorative rock
products to add a buffer between the house
and bark. River cobble and black cinder are
some of our more popular rock products.”
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