About Us

The Madrone Team

Our Core Values guide the way we work every day. Among Stewardship, Integrity, Innovation, Service, & Quality is Teamwork. For us, teamwork is each person doing their part, contributing to the efficiency of the whole, lending strengths and abilities to improving our work every time. Our Management & Design Team interfaces directly with clients, vendors, and subcontractors to uphold Madrone standards of excellence in cultivating the natural beauty of California’s Central Coast.

Mission

Our mission is to create inspirational landscapes cultivating the natural beauty of California’s Central Coast. Learn more.

Core Values

Stewardship is the careful and responsible management of the environmental and social systems we live in to sustain their well-being and improve them for future generations.

To be a steward is to leave something better than you found it, set it up to succeed, and to proliferate life and health.

Integrity is the consistency of actions, values, and principles. To have integrity is to be whole and complete with values and beliefs being in line with actions and relationships.

Honesty, trustworthiness, and willingness to do what is right even at a cost. Integrity suggests the ability to make choices that will allow peace of mind when looked at in hindsight.

Teamwork is work done by many with each doing his or her part, subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole.

Teamwork suggests a willingness to compromise and acknowledge personal strengths and weaknesses to benefit the group, without giving in to selfish motives. Ask for help.

Innovation is the desire to create something that is original, new, and important to break into the market and make more effective products, processes, services, technologies or ideas.

Innovation suggests a desire to create, problem solves, and constantly improve ourselves and the way we live.

Service is to serve others or act in the best interest of others and encourage the participation of others by example.

It is to see the world with a servant’s heart and improve the well-being of others.

Quality means to strive for superiority and fitness of purpose when accomplishing a task or creating something.

Strive to understand purpose, intention, and goals to create things to last and accomplish all desired outcomes with excellence.

Awards and Recognition

2020 Central Coast Green Building Council Green Awards

Green Landscape Honor Award – Pataye Residence

2019 Best of SLO

Best Landscape Maintenance Company

2019 California Landscape Contractors Association San Luis Obispo Chapter Awards

Sweepstakes Award Large Residential Maintenance – Edwards Residence

First Place Large Residential Landscape Installation – Humphrey Residence

First Place Medium Residential Landscape Installation – Gampe Residence

Best Design-Build Award – Pataye Residence

2018 Top Rated Local

First Place Top Rated Landscape Company

2016 California Landscape Contractors Association State Trophy Awards

First Place Small Commercial/Industrial Installation – Halter Ranch Vineyard Tasting Room

2016 California Landscape Contractors Association San Luis Obispo Chapter Awards

Sweepstakes Award (“Best of Competition”) – Halter Ranch Vineyard Tasting Room

First Place Large Commercial Landscape Installation – Halter Ranch Vineyard Tasting Room

Outstanding Achievement Large Residential Maintenance – Nichter Residence

2014 California Landscape Contractors Association San Luis Obispo Chapter Awards

First Place Small Commercial Maintenance – Safari Center of Paso Robles

Outstanding Achievement Large Commercial Maintenance – Holiday Inn Express Atascadero

2013 California Landscape Contractors Association SLO Chapter Awards

Best Small Commercial Landscape Construction– La Cuvier Winery, Paso Robles

Outstanding Achievement Large Commercial Maintenance – Tablas Creek Vineyard, Paso Robles

Outstanding Achievement-Large Residential Maintenance – Kuntze Residence, Paso Robles

2012 California Landscape Contractors Association San Luis Obispo Chapter Awards

Outstanding Achievement Large Commercial Maintenance-Halter Ranch Winery

2011 California Landscape Contractors Association SLO Chapter Awards

Xeriscape Installation First Place – Myracle/Robinson Residence, Atascadero

Small Residential Landscape Installation – Conroy Residence, Avila Beach

2009 California Landscape Contractors Association STATEWIDE Trophy Award:

President’s Trophy – Best Entry From ALL Categories – Riding Residence, Paso Robles

2007 California Landscape Contractors Association STATEWIDE Trophy Award:

Xeriscape Installation – Outstanding Achievement – Kuntze Residence, Paso Robles

2002 Best of Show, Professional Division – California Mid-State Fair Landscape Competition:

“A Resource Efficient Landscape Exhibit” Presented by Partners in Water Conservation(Atascadero Mutual Water Co., Templeton CSD, City of Paso Robles, City of San Luis Obispo, County of San Luis Obispo) Landscape Design and Direction by Rick Mathews

2002 Atascadero Mutual Water Co. Water-Conserving Landscape Award:

6950 Navarette Ave. Atascadero

2000 Award of Appreciation from Atascadero Mutual Water Company:

“In appreciation for your continuing efforts in preserving Atascadero’s water resources”

1999 Santa Maria City Beautification Award for landscaping Santa Maria Inn

1995 Obispo Beautiful Award for 196 Twin Ridge Drive San Luis Obispo, California

1992 Obispo Beautiful Award for Peach St. Apartments San Luis Obispo, California

1989 Atascadero Beautiful Award for 10805 Cebada Court Atascadero, California

Giving Back

As a practice, it evolved among the Madrone team early on, and has continued to be an integral part of who we are and what it means to live, work and appreciate life.

Whether it’s a donation to the Veteran’s Memorial or the local Homeless Shelter, the Performing Arts Center or local environmental groups, we believe good citizenship and good business require giving generously. As we help provide the livelihood of dozens of families on the Central Coast, we also want to contribute to the health, safety, education and enjoyment of our communities.