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Kootenai Services LLC is ever expanding its list of provided services because owner Jenny Ressler keeps learning new ways to help people. From landscape to Web design, Ressler works to provide professional and ethical services year-round.
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A majority of the business’ time is dedicated to landscape design, installation, upkeep, and weed management – something Ressler has been doing for over 28 years.
“I don’t know how many landscape courses I’ve taken in perennial and general landscape design,” Ressler says. “I like being outside, and I like the creativity of it. Making a place go from drab to beautiful.”
Ressler enjoys returning to do maintenance on properties with gardens she’s designed. She can point to the dry, barren hillside on either side of lush, landscaped property and tell someone “that’s what this used to look like.”
Kootenai Services is especially able to “put the landscape to sleep,” Ressler says, which is preparing a lawn or garden for the winter.
“To make the landscape look good for the winter is the primary thing, and it’s better for the plants,” Ressler added. “You’re insulating them from the cold so the roots are healthier.”
Then with some good fertilization and an application of pre-emergent herbicide in the spring, Ressler can quickly return a flower garden, walkway, or lawn back to full beauty.
Kootenai Services is also licensed in multiple pesticides and is able to treat landscapes, range, pasture, turf, waterways, and roadways. People know her as “The Weed Lady.”
Ressler can’t do all the work on her own, so she often teams up with her sons Chris and Andy Galanti, each of whom have their own landscaping businesses.
“My son Chris has Galanti Landscaping, and I work with him the most in the Tobacco Valley. He helps me with all-of-the-above,” Ressler explained with a laugh. “Andy’s forte is insect problems, and I consult him sometimes on those.”
When winter months do come around, Ressler focuses on other aspects of her business. She drafts weed management plans for the county on new subdivisions, and she recently graduated with an associates degree in Web design and is available to create Web pages for other aspiring businesses. She also teaches music and makes soy wax candles.
“That’s why I originally called the business Kootenai Services,” Ressler says. “Because I could see myself doing a lot of different things.”