“Jane Kingzett got an early gift thanks to Green Oasis and the lighting company Christmas Décor. Every year they surprise military families with decorations and this year they lit up the home of a family who really needed it…”

Christmas Decor, the Christmas decorating business with over 300 units, spread holiday cheer last Christmas in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, partnering with local lawn care business Green Oasis.

“On Monday, family and friends of Vietnam veteran Dave Canfield gathered to surprise him after his house was decorated with Christmas lights. Canfield was one veteran chosen by landscaping company, Green Oasis, to have his house fully decorated with Christmas lights and garland free of charge…”

With Christmas just two days away, one group worked to bring some holiday cheer to an Eau Claire veteran.

In one day a team of Santa’s helpers with Green Oasis decked the halls of a home on Eau Claire’s west side.

It has almost been 5 years since 3 girl scouts and one of their mothers were fatally struck by a vehicle in Lake Hallie.

A memorial for the victims; Autumn Helgeson, Jayna Kelley, Haylee Hickle, and Sara Jo Schneider, was created last year.

Now Green Oasis, a lawn care service in Lake Hallie, is helping to make the memorial a place for anyone to remember the lives lost.

“Spring-like temperatures and social distancing leave plenty of time for gardening. But flexing out the green thumb may be more difficult this year as greenhouses are currently not open to the public. Workers at Green Oasis in Lake Hallie said they’ve had to find new ways to reach customers. The greenhouse is now making deliveries and offering curbside pick-up after receiving orders online…”

“Family of soldier serving in Afghanistan comes home to house lit up for Christmas.
A western Wisconsin family missing a dad will have a brighter Christmas thanks to a local business….”

“One local veteran battling cancer, and his family, got a surprise Monday thanks to a special program that is keeping an annual holiday tradition alive…”

Green Oasis surprises a local veteran’s family with holiday decor.

“Greg Anderson won’t be home for Christmas this year while he serves with his National Guard unit in Afghanistan. But a nationwide program is making sure his family’s holidays will be a little brighter.”

“Through Green Oasis, the project’s landscaping subcontractor, he has spent hundreds of hours planning and ordering materials, attending meetings, pouring over blueprints and making sure his crew completed the landscaping, which comprises around 30 percent of the park…”

About a dozen volunteers from Green Oasis, a landscaping company out of Chippewa Falls, came out on Saturday morning to help expand a memorial for three girl scouts and a parent, tragically killed while volunteering on County Highway P in 2018.

“In the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 11, 2009, Wayne and Julie Bollinger stood on a bike path watching years of their labor go up in flames. A fire had consumed their Lake Hallie business, Greener Grass Systems, and an adjoining residence. Though no one was seriously injured, the property was a total loss…”

“The National Association of Landscape Professionals (formerly PLANET), announced the winners of its annual Community Stewardship Awards at its Renewal & Remembrance / Legislative Day on the Hill Banquet Dinner held in Washington, D.C. on Monday, July 20. The awards are given to NALP member companies that have demonstrated their commitment to volunteerism and community service over the course of a minimum of a three year period, helping to showcase the impact that landscape and lawn care organizations have on the community…”

“With over 7,000 plants and close to 100 trees, it will be very nature-like when it’s done, but it’s not quite there. It’s looking good, Mark McGough, a Landscape Designer with Green Oasis and a project manager of the project, said. It’s going to take a little time for it to grow. All the plants and all the seed and everything, but in a couple of years, that place is going to look awesome…”

December may have just started, but the Christmas spirit is alive and well in Eau Claire.

Two local businesses surprised two Navy veterans with a special display of holiday lights.

“For military families, the holidays can be particularly stressful. After all, decorating often isn’t a top priority when a loved one is deployed. The staff members at Green Oasis by Greener Grass Systems, based in Eau Claire, Wis., know this. They have been brightening the lives of military families at Christmastime for a decade, surprising them with free, elaborate light displays at their homes every holiday season…”

We secured a segment Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 featuring Christmas Decor on WEAU-TV (NBC Affiliate) (UVPM: 453,369) in Eau Claire, WI (DMA: 129). The segment titled “Vet Surprised with Christmas Decorations” was based on an interview coordinated by Mainland.

Several members of the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association (MNLA) were recently honored with an MNLA Award for Excellence in Landscape. Among those honored through the Landscape Awards program was Ben Graf of Green Oasis in River Falls.

A panel of practicing professionals in landscape education, landscape architecture, and horticulture judged each entry based upon quality of design, appropriateness of materials used, and the superiority of the workmanship. Entries are not judged against each other, but rather against standards of excellence in the green industry.

The Woodbury Landscape & Decking Project was noted by the judges for “Attention to detail and quality execution of the design. The clients got exactly what they were shown in the design. The creative solutions to challenging goals and site requirements, combined with a high degree of quality work set this project apart. The project is clearly an award winner.”

“We got our cold snap a little early,” says Wayne Bollinger of Green Oasis.

Even after an early snowfall blanketed the Chippewa Valley, Bollinger says it is important to get those leaves off the ground.

“You’re not going to get off that easy and not have to rake up,” he says. “It’s pretty detrimental if that cover is left on especially if we start getting some warmer weather and some sun. That turf grass still needs some photosynthesis and needs to store some energy for winter.”

Adversity struck Greener Grass Systems (now doing business as Green Oasis) back in 2009 when a fire had consumed their Lake Hallie business. The property was a total loss, but owners Wayne & Julie Bollinger stood by their commitment to serve their communities and rebuilt their way to earning Eau Claire Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year in 2015.