“Investing in your Success”

Owner Profiles

Don’t take it from us. Hear it from existing Spring Green owners instead.

The benefits that come with starting a lawn care business with Spring Green are perhaps best left explained by the entrepreneurs and green industry business owners who have realized them. Visit each owner’s summary below, identify with the owners who might be similar to you, watch the videos and download their full profiles. Learn from their experiences and discover how a Spring Green franchise can help you achieve your goals and dreams.


Jon Thurman
Green Industry Partner

Jon Thurman

Owner of TrimWorks and Spring-Green
Springfield, MO

Like many others, Jon Thurman got his start in the green industry mowing lawns as a teenager. He originally began his career in lawn care to help him pay for college but found more success than he anticipated within the business. By his early 20s, however, he was tired of mowing. He wanted to find work that was year-round, and irrigation fit the bill.

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Nick and Ursula Novellino
Green Industry Partner

Nick and Ursula Novellino

Owners CNE Grounds Maintenance and Spring-Green
Newport News, VA

In 2011, the Novellino’s had more than a decade of green industry experience under their belts and started looking for other ways to expand their business. The couple knew what it took to grow their maintenance services but weren’t sure what it would take to expand their lawn-care division — and that’s when they discovered Spring-Green.

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David Roman
Green Industry Partner

David Roman

Owner of Enviroscapes of Georgia and Spring-Green
Loganville, GA

In 2015, Roman participated in a roundtable discussion at GIE+EXPO in Louisville, where a business owner shared a story of getting into lawn care via a franchise. The owner stated that lawn care had quickly become the company’s profit center, which piqued Roman’s interest. “From that conversation, I went back to the Expo center, and I began to investigate franchise opportunities in metro Atlanta,” he recalled. That search led him to Spring-Green Lawn Care.

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Green Industry Partner

Marty Amundson

Owner of Green Edge Lawn Service and Spring-Green
Rochester, MN

Seeking ways to provide for his family’s future and his eventual retirement, Marty began exploring a franchise as part of his continued diversification strategy. He discovered an opportunity to purchase an existing Spring-Green franchise.

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Patrick Rentz
Green Industry Partner

Patrick Rentz

Owner of Rentz Landscape Management and Spring-Green
Huntsville, AL

Patrick Rentz realized he had the entrepreneurial spirit at a young age, and that passion has only grown with his continued green industry success. Originally named Lawnpro Inc., Rentz reincorporated his business in 2002 to Rentz Landscape Management LLC. Rentz’s business was “growing like crazy,” but he was interested in adding residential lawn care services. He began exploring lawn care franchises and even considered starting a separate company when he learned of Spring-Green Lawn Care.

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