Melissa (aka Mel) has an educational background in Horticulture & Landscape design.  She received her degree from Rochester Technical College in 1998. 

Mel has been with River City Lawnscape since 1998.  She started as a landscape technician and soon became a foreman.  In 2006 she became a landscape designer.  Mel also is in charge of the Holiday Lighting Department., which she started in 2004.

Mel likes to use natural stones and boulder accents in her landscape designs.  You will see in her designs that she loves to use of foliage plants to put a splash of color in a green landscape.