Red Roots Landscaping:
Raising Family
to a New Level
Written and Photographed
By Craig Lore
A
pril is the coolest month for turning your gaze
towards the yard and garden. When the rain has
stopped and the sun is shining, thoughts turn to
summer BBQs, cool drinks on the patio, and colorful flower
beds. When you look through the windows into your yard,
you can see the arbor, pergola, paved walkway, fire pit, out-
door lighting, fountain, and barbeque station—that, so far,
exist only in your imagination. Red Roots Landscaping, based
in Gilroy, can help make that imaginary yard into a reality.
The roots of Red Roots Landscaping grow deep and
wide. Owner, Guillermo “Memo” Banuelos; his wife and
CFO Maria Reyes; and their sons Eddie Banuelos, Relly, and
Roman Reyes are the core of this family-run business.
Memo and Maria were an item back in their teen years
at San Benito High School in Hollister, but after that
they drifted apart. Memo did a four-year stint with the
Marines, and Maria attended Heald College in San Jose to
earn a Business Administration degree. But later, a chance
encounter brought them back together in Hollister where
they married, settled down, and subsequently raised their
six children.
In 1996, Memo also raised his business, Red Roots
Landscaping, which started out as a general lawn and yard
maintenance service, but over time the business grew into
a full-service landscape construction company. Today, with
their general contractor’s license, they are ready to carve,
and sculpt, and build the outdoor spaces their clients have
always wanted.
Although your new yard and garden start out with plans
on paper, the company’s boots-on-the-ground landscape
supervisor, Eligio “Lee” Rojas, is there to suggest plant
selections based on soil type and available sunlight. With an
eye towards the whole picture, Lee knows what will grow
where and how to enhance the entire yard with an irrigation
system, lighting enhancements, a dry streambed, flowerbeds,
or planter boxes.
Memo brings his expertise to suggest modifications and
enhancements to the hardscape, such as paving, patios
and stonework. He does the same for garden construction
elements made of wood or stone including barbecue
installations, arbors, pergolas, cabanas, water features, pool
houses, and gazebos.
“People want their yards to be an extension of their
house,” Maria said, “to make both the indoors and outdoors
a part of the livable space.”
In this technological day and age, you can have almost
anything that you can think of.
“For one client we installed an outdoor TV near their
spa that’s controlled by a remote control—it glides up from
inside a ‘rock’.” Lee’s team has also installed outdoor lighting
and irrigation systems that are controlled from a mobile
phone app.
Sunlight, fresh air, and green space are good for the soul.
When we take the time to relax, we become better people
in all other aspects of our lives. Red Roots Landscaping is
a family affair, and they don’t want your family to simply
imagine the perfect yard: When you look through your
windows, they want you to see it.
“People want their yards to be an extension of
their house, to make both the indoors and outdoors
a part of the livable space.”
GILROY • MORGAN HILL • SAN MARTIN
april/may 2019
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