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At Balanced Environments, we love to learn. We are constantly attending seminars, certification classes and events. Learn below what we have been up to, where we have been and what we have learned in our travels.
Think Spring!
Plan for a happy, healthy growing season using these 7 Pro-Tree Care Tips.
Landscape Management Checklist March 2022
Early Summer Color Confirmation Confirm your summer seasonal color. All annual flowers will be in short supply in 2022
We are back from the iLandscape 2022 Show and Energized!
Our Sales team was proud to accept the ILCA Gold Award for Commercial Landscape Maintenance for Covenant Living of Northbrook. This sprawling retirement community landscape management includes hundreds of large trees, ornamentals, formal hedges, perennials, seasonal color rotations and acres and acres of turf care.
Share the Love – A Gallery of our favorite blooms!
We couldn’t wait to share some of our favorite blooms, full of deep reds, hot pinks and regal purples.
9th Annual iLandscape Show February 2022 ‘ONE FIESTA’
BE attended the iLandscape 9th Annual show ‘One Fiesta’ from February 2 to 4, 2022. iLandscape is the Midwest’s biggest show geared towards the lawn and landscape industry.
Pivot your outdoor palette to Pantone’s 2022 Color of the Year: VERY PERI
Encompassing the qualities of the blues, yet at the same time possessing a violet-red undertone, PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri displays a spritely, joyous attitude and dynamic presence that encourages courageous creativity and imaginative expression.
Landscape Management Checklist January 2022
Have you approved your 2022 Landscape Management agreement? There is a known labor shortage going into the 2022 landscape season.
Ice Ice Baby! Keep your property safe with BE
Widespread freezing drizzle developed over Illinois and western and northern Indiana during the afternoon of Saturday, January 8 and continued into the evening, resulting in an impacting glaze of ice. At DuPage Airport, .24” of ice was reported. The combination of...
Landscapes of the Month: Keeping a Retirement Community Vibrant Despite Budget Cuts
The Covenant Living of Northbrook, located in a suburb of Chicago, is home to a 60-acre retirement community with 11 interconnected multi-tenant buildings, 18 duplexes and 3 quad-style residential units. Balanced Environments (BE) based in Old Mill Creek, Illinois,...
Balanced Environments earns only Chicagoland Gold Award of Excellence for NALP for 2021
Balanced Environments is proud to announce they earned the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) Award of Excellence—GOLD for the Commercial Landscape Management of Covenant Living, Northbrook.
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847-395-7120
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17950 W. Rt. 173 Old Mill Creek, IL 60083
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Our Landscape Installations provide creative solutions, based on sustainable ideals, to maximize the aesthetic appeal to individual properties. Our landscape designs respond to the particular client requests with innovative ideas. The installation process is driven by the most current practices, with trained personnel, in order to perform exceptionally in health and growth, aesthetic appeal, and value – all combined with lower maintenance demands.
Our Locations
Balanced Environments services Chicagoland, Southern Wisconsin and Northwest Indiana.
24/7 Snow Command Dispatch (800) 883-8750
Old Mill Creek
Corporate Office
17950 W. Rt. 173
Old Mill Creek, IL 60083
Phone: (847) 395-7120
Fax: (847) 838-6750
Plainfield
12006 Spaulding School Rd., Unit 102A.
Plainfield, IL 60585
Phone: (815) 733-5342
Fax: (815) 733-6076
Lombard
Lombard Branch
951 N. Ridge Ave.
Lombard, IL 60148
Phone: (630) 916-8830
Fax: (630) 916-8055
Chicago
Chicago Branch
2420 W Washburne Ave.
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: (847) 395-7120
Fax: (847) 838-6750
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Branch
921 Silvernail Road
Pewaukee, WI 53072
Phone: 262.455.3882




















