About Brookstone Outdoors

Local Roots and a New Name

Brookstone Outdoors continues the company Steve and Eunice Ward began in 1995 as S&E Ward's Landscape Management.

For 30 years, Steve and Eunice built the business by answering the phone, standing behind the work, and returning season after season. In March 2025, they sold the company to two longtime employees, Todd and Gerald.

They did not come from outside the company. They learned the properties, customers, crews, and day-to-day work from within the business.

Todd leads the landscape design, construction, and irrigation side of the company. A Cedaredge native, he installed his first sprinkler system in the valley in 1985 while still in high school.

Gerald, whose family has deep agricultural roots in the area, handles sales, leads spraying operations, maintenance, and field production.

The ownership and name changed, but the company's local experience, customer relationships, and commitment to the work continued. If you hired S&E Ward's during the transition, you were working with the company that is now Brookstone Outdoors.

One Company for the Entire Property

A landscape is never truly finished.

Plants mature. Irrigation systems fall out of adjustment. Soil compacts. Drainage problems appear. Trees need pruning and treatment. Hardscapes settle, and properties change as the people using them change.

That is why Brookstone Outdoors operates as one full-service company rather than a collection of unrelated contractors.

Our landscape crews can design and build the property. Our irrigation department can keep the water going where it belongs. Our maintenance and plant-health teams can care for the lawn, trees, shrubs, and planting beds. Our lighting team can extend the use of the property after dark, and our snow crews can keep commercial and community properties accessible through the winter.

Because these departments work together, problems are more likely to be noticed before they become expensive. A mowing crew can report a damaged sprinkler head. An irrigation technician can identify a struggling tree. A maintenance supervisor can spot drainage or landscape problems that should be addressed by the construction team.

For the customer, that means fewer contractors to coordinate and one company responsible for understanding the property.

What We Do

Brookstone Outdoors provides:

• Landscape design, installation, and renovation
• Patios, retaining walls, rockwork, outdoor kitchens and water features
• Irrigation design, installation, repair, startup, checkups, and winterization
• Residential, commercial, and HOA property maintenance
• Mowing, aeration, dethatching, pruning, and seasonal cleanup
• Lawn, tree, and shrub fertilization
• Weed, insect, and plant-health treatments
• Landscape, holiday and exterior lighting
• Commercial snow and ice management

Most of this work is completed by our own crews. When a project requires work outside our licensing—such as installing a new electrical circuit—we coordinate with an appropriately licensed professional.

Built to Serve Properties of Every Size

Brookstone Outdoors operates six specialized departments from our shop on Austin Road. With approximately two dozen employees and a fleet of roughly 21 trucks, along with dedicated equipment and trailers, we can serve individual homeowners while also supporting commercial properties, HOAs, and larger construction projects.

Since our current property records began in 2017, our crews have performed work at more than 2,500 addresses across Delta and Montrose counties. That includes long-term maintenance accounts, landscape installations, seasonal services, and individual repairs.

Every job is scheduled and documented through BOS—the Brookstone Operating System—our own business-management platform. It gives our office and field teams access to property information, service history, work orders, application records, and job documentation.

For homeowners, that means we can see what was done previously and provide better continuity from one visit to the next. For property managers and HOA boards, it provides the service records and documentation needed to manage larger properties responsibly.

Where We Work

We serve Delta and Montrose counties on Colorado's Western Slope.

Our regular service area includes Cedaredge, Delta, Austin, Eckert, Orchard City, Hotchkiss, Paonia, Crawford, Olathe, and Montrose.

Recurring maintenance and service work is routed geographically so our crews can operate efficiently and provide dependable service. Larger landscape and irrigation installations are scheduled differently, allowing our construction crews to travel farther when the project is a good fit.

If your property is outside our regular service area, call us. We will give you a straightforward answer about whether we can serve it well.

Practical Advice. Long-Term Work.

We believe customers deserve honest recommendations, even when the recommendation is to wait.

If equipment still has useful life, we will tell you. If a service would be more effective in another season, we will recommend the better timing. If a project needs a different specialist, we will say so.

We are not trying to complete one transaction and disappear. We want to understand the property, do the work correctly, and still be the company you call next season.

That was the foundation of S&E Ward's Landscape Management, and it remains the foundation of Brookstone Outdoors:

Answer the phone. Do the work right. Be here next season.