Meadow View Gardens is a family-run landscaping company based at 2049 Poplars Road in York, PA. For more than 30 years, owner and designer Rick Jacobus has been drawing plans at kitchen tables across York County, walking properties with homeowners, and then showing up with his crew to build what he drew. That is the whole story in one sentence: the person who designs your landscape is the same person who installs it and stands behind it.
Who is behind Meadow View Gardens landscaping in York, PA?
Rick Jacobus is the owner, the designer, and the man on site from the first shovel to the final walkthrough. He brings over 30 years of landscaping experience and more than 25 years installing patios, and he hand-designs every project rather than handing it off to a sales team. When you call, you talk to Rick. When plants get chosen, Rick is standing next to you choosing them. That kind of continuity is rare, and it is the reason so much of our work comes from repeat clients and neighbors of past projects.
Rick puts his philosophy this way:
“I commit myself to enhance customers’ homes for them to enjoy their outdoor space for many years to come. Year after year when maintained correctly, the landscape should bloom more profusely as it matures and that’s my ultimate goal.”
That idea shapes everything we do. A landscape is not a product you take delivery of; it is a living thing that should look better in year five than it did on day one. So we design for how beds will fill in, how trees will cast shade a decade from now, and how a paver patio will settle and weather with the seasons.
Why does having the owner on every job matter?
Because nothing gets lost in translation. On many crews, the designer sketches something, a project manager reinterprets it, and installers guess at the rest. Here, the design lives in the head of the person laying it out on the ground. If the site throws a surprise at us, buried rock, an odd grade, a drainage issue, Rick adjusts the plan on the spot instead of sending a change order up a chain.
Our crew has worked together long enough to move like one unit, and they share Rick’s standard: clean lines, tight joints, plants set at the right depth, and a jobsite left tidier than we found it. You can see that standard across our project gallery.
It means your plants are locally sourced and already proven for York County soil and climate before they ever reach your yard. Plants that have thrived through Pennsylvania winters and humid summers here transplant with far less shock, which is a big part of why our landscape design and installation work matures so reliably.
What is it like to work with Meadow View Gardens?
Working with us follows four simple steps: consultation, design, build, and maintain.
- Consultation. Rick visits your property, listens to how you want to use the space, and looks at sun, slope, soil, and sightlines. Booking a free consultation is where every project starts.
- Design.
- Build. The crew installs everything from planting beds to koi ponds and pondless waterfalls, with Rick managing the job start to finish.
- Maintain. Ongoing landscape maintenance, mulching, trimming, pruning, and spring and fall clean-ups, keeps the landscape blooming more profusely as it matures, exactly as Rick intends.
We serve York, PA and towns throughout York County, from Dover to Red Lion. You can find your community on our service areas page, and browse everything we offer under landscaping services.
Ready to meet Rick at your property?
Tell us a little about your yard and what you would love to do with it. Rick will come out, walk the space with you, and start sketching a landscape built to get better every year.