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Landscaping
218-A E. Eau Gallie Blvd.
#130
Indian Harbour, FL 32937

Phone:321-779-4564
Fax: 321-254-9198

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All about Dalsimer Home and Garden

Dalsimer Landscaping is a slow-growth company which has built a reputation for excellence, responsiveness and creativity. We have always tried to develop long term professional relationships with our clients based on trust in our business principles, confidence in our services and faith in our horticultural expertise. However, after two hurricanes in one month, our clients not only had garden needs but also home repair needs. Dalsimer, in an effort to continue building our business based on personal service, paid close attention to our clients needs and answered by officially becoming Dalsimer Home and Garden in 2004. Melanie Dalsimer and Kris Hansen are the active partners in this enterprise. Here’s a little bit about each of them.

Melanie Dalsimer handles the garden design, installation and maintenance. Melanie follows in the family tradition. Her grandfather, Allan Furth Dalsimer, became recognized as one of the nation’s outstanding landscape artists. President of the National Landscape Nurserymen’s Association and a governor of the American Association of Nurserymen, his company’s garden exhibit at the 1963 International Flower Show won the William A. Sperling Memorial Trophy and his design and execution of the Eastman Kodak “Child’s Garden of Fashion” won that show’s grand trophy. Melanie was born in Nairobi, Kenya and grew up admiring and exploring the rich foliage of Africa. Fruit trees and chameleons we’re her playground. Later, volunteering for the work crew at Tyler Arboretum, located in the Upper Mainline of Pennsylvania, throughout her high school years proved an experience she would never forget. Melanie was privileged to complete her Mount Holyoke’s junior year abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris where she did in depth study of European gardens. After graduation, Melanie was hired to manage a prestigious private greenhouse. It was during this time that she entered privately held specimens into the Philadelphia Flower Show and completed formal horticultural studies at Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia. She furthered her design skills at the USDA Graduate school in Washington, D.C. where she began installing for landscape designer, Joel Lerner, author of the Washington Post’s “Green Scene” and owner of Environmental Design located in Chevy Chase, Md.. Now a Florida Landscape Designer and a University of Florida Master Gardener, Melanie has returned to the rich tropical foliage of her youth. She strongly believes that each garden is an artistic achievement that is best attained by planting plants suited to their environment.

Melanie Dalsimer Kris Hansen was born one of those “handy” guys. Disassembling his first ten-speed bike came as a shock to his mom, but not as much as redesigning and reassembling it within a day. Kris became invaluable to his Mom and his three sisters not only fixing household items but also the family car by the age of fifteen. He credits his father, Kris, for the “hands-on” approach to carpentry and automotive. In Arlington, Va Kris worked for his uncle’s paint and wallpaper business where he was first introduced to interior renovation. However, his love of engines and automotive took him into the management side for J.K Automotive where he worked for ten years. While working at J.K., Kris returned to school to study to become an electrician and spent several years working for SCS Electric. In 1997 Kris came to join the Dalsimer team as a manager. He began handling the garden lighting installation, irrigation, custom trellis design and installation and made sure that all equipment ran perfectly. Now Kris has expanded into all non-structural home repairs and renovations. His invaluable expertise and loyal following has recently made Kris a fifty percent owner of the business.

When you think Gardens or Home Renovation, think Dalsimer!