Growing up in the CSRA, Brandon May spent summers helping his dad take care of lawns in the Augusta area. As he got older, Brandon followed a calling into full-time church ministry. “We started a church here in Augusta and I fully intended to be a minister the rest of my life, but my wife and I got to the point where we realized our family needed some help,” he shares. “We needed more time as a family. I have three little girls, one who has autism, who need me, but I didn't have much of a presence at home at night. I realized I had to make some changes.”
In 2019, Brandon and his wife, Brittany, made the decision to step away from full-time ministry and instead minister to people through a new business adventure. Together, they run May Landscaping and offer lawn maintenance plus landscape design and installation. “I'm still a minister at heart and I love people,” he says. “We are committed to making sure that we do our job in the absolute best way possible for our customers. There's a level of transparency that comes with our business and we want to make it right every single time.”
Brandon gained valuable experience working all those summers with his dad and it shows in his work. “We're true experts at what we do. We know what we are working with, and we know which plants to touch,” he explains. “It's more than just lawn care, it’s a process and a knowledge that we know what we're doing when we get to your property and can develop a good game plan for maintenance for your property. Our full maintenance lawn care includes taking care of beds and prunings, even those complicated prunings that most people don't know about. For instance, we know when to prune hydrangeas, drift roses, and liriope.”
Brandon’s true passion, however, is in landscape design and property transformations. “I meet with customers and they'll show me a disaster, overgrowth, or just bland landscaping,” he says. “The coolest part is being able to show somebody what their property could potentially look like by coming up with a design plan – what we can add here or do differently there. I truly love the design and build aspect of what we do.”
For Brandon, the best part of his job is coming home to his family each day. “We love our lives right now. We’re happy and love what we're doing,” he shares. “We do what it takes to make sure we take care of our employees and that we are doing things the right way. We also think that landscaping makes everyone's life a little bit better and hope that we get to share a little bit of that with our customers.”
May Landscaping services both residential and commercial properties. Visit maylandscaping.net or call 706-550-7753 to schedule a consultation. Also, follow May Landscaping on Facebook to see completed jobs and works in progress.
I'm still a minister at heart and I love people.
