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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Scandia Landscaping celebrates 25 years

Conny Gustafsson and his wife, Wendy, are celebrating their 25th year in business as Scandia Landscaping.

Gustafsson moved to San Rafael from Sweden in 1981. In 1983, he married Wendy and they moved to Sonoma starting their company the following year with Conny doing the field work and Wendy running the office from their home in Sonoma. In 1995, they expanded the business, opening an office and corporate yard in Petaluma. They currently work in six counties and employ 15 people, keeping employees involved in learning; several are now Certified Landscape Technicians.

Conny Gustafsson has a degree in landscape engineering and horticulture from the University of Alnarp Sweden. To keep current with the latest technology, he continued to take college courses here in horticulture and native plants. He also earned his herbicide and pesticide license from the State of California and 1991 completed schooling in arboriculture to become a Certified Arborist and then a graduate of the American Society of Consulting Arborists.

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