With 71% of Homeowners Hiring Landscape Help in 2026, Dahing Plants Offers Plant Depth Competitors Lack
New York City, United States - September 19, 2026 / Dahing Plants /
HOLMDEL, NJ - Sept. 17, 2026 - New Jersey's demand for outdoor living continues to reshape how homeowners approach their properties, from full backyard overhauls to more deliberate, plant-focused front-yard designs. Nationally, 71% of homeowners hired professional help for an outdoor renovation in 2026, up from 65% just two years prior, and landscape contractors remain the most frequently contacted professional for that work - a pattern New Jersey's own outdoor renovation activity closely mirrors.
As that demand grows, a recurring frustration has emerged among homeowners: landscaping crews capable of executing a plan but limited in their ability to speak knowledgeably about the plants themselves - how specific varieties will perform in New Jersey's soil and seasons, what they will look like several years after installation, or what ongoing care they require. Dahing Plants, a nursery that sources, grows, and maintains plants before they reach any customer, identifies that knowledge gap as the specific problem its landscaping team is structured to address.
"People come to us with a hundred other things going on in their lives - a landscaping project isn't supposed to be one more thing they have to research and worry about," said Calvin Li, Founder & Owner of Dahing Plants. "Because we grow and source the plants ourselves, we already know which ones will actually hold up in a New Jersey yard, so homeowners aren't left guessing whether something will survive the winter or outgrow its spot in two years - we can just tell them, and they can stop thinking about it."
Dahing Plants' landscaping designers work directly from the same plant stock the company sources and grows through its nursery operations, meaning they design with firsthand knowledge of how each variety roots, matures, and performs outdoors in New Jersey's climate - rather than selecting plants from a catalog they have never handled directly. That includes guidance many landscaping companies do not provide in-house: which varieties will perform well given a specific yard's light exposure and drainage conditions, realistic projections for mature size and spacing, and the care requirements a planting will carry long after the installation crew has left.
On a recent project in Marlboro, NJ, the team directed a homeowner away from a more commonly requested option - hydrangeas, which tend to struggle through New Jersey's humid summers and often recover unevenly following a hard winter - toward clethra alnifolia, or summersweet: a native shrub the nursery grows on-site that holds up through both weather extremes. The plant fills in a section of the yard with fragrant white blooms in late summer, after most other flowering shrubs have already finished for the season. It is a variety few landscaping crews reach for by default, but one Dahing's team knows in detail from growing it themselves.
Dahing Plants' landscaping work covers New Jersey, alongside the company's nursery and plant delivery operations across the Boston-Washington, DC corridor. Dahing Plants is a family-owned business that began in Manhattan's Lower East Side, distinguished from the outset by controlling its own supply chain - giving it tighter oversight of quality and operations than most competitors in the space. After developing a consistent following through its indoor plant offerings, the company is now responding to years of customer requests by expanding into outdoor and landscaping services, applying the same sourcing model to the full range of plant needs.
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Dahing Plants
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New York City, NY 10002
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Calvin Li
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