Mary Bartolatto – Owner
Mary has over 15 years experience in complete landscape design, installation, and ongoing maintenance of fine residential and commercial properties. She loves to get her hands dirty and you may often see her on your property getting work done with her crew.
Jon Wiedyk – General Manager
Jon split his college years evenly with two years at the University of Michigan and two years at Michigan State University. Since then Jon has spent the last 19 years as a professional landscape designer. He has extensive experience in every aspect of building an outstanding landscape from the design stage through construction and ongoing maintenance. Jon has personally installed numerous waterfalls, brick patios and walks, boulder, timber and block walls, planting beds and lawns. You can click here for a gallery of some of his past work.
Liz Antor – Head Maintenance Foreman
Liz has been with Mary since the inception of the company. She is truly the heart and soul of Bella Fiori. Chances are if you’ve hired us for any work over the years Liz has had a hand in it at one point or another. She (along with Mary) trains most of our new employees to meet the exacting Bella Fiori standards. Liz is a Master Gardener, a licensed pesticide applicator and has taken more diagnostic/plant care classes than we can list here.
Steve Surrey – Landscape Foreman
Steve has been a landscape installation foreman for over 20 years. He has installed and maintained every aspect of a landscape. He is qualified to install everything from brick pavers to boulder walls, ponds to decks and plant material of every shape and size. Steve is also an experienced pruner of trees and shrubs and has the ability to run virtually any loader, tractor or back hoe. Steve and Jon have over a decade of experience working together to execute Jon’s designs efficiently to keep costs low giving you one of the best values for landscape installation in the greater Grand Rapids Area.
Rocky Hickam – Maintenance Foreman
The newest edition to our maintenance foreman rotation comes to us from the west side of the state. Rocky has been an avid home gardener all his life and several years ago decided to make an employment change and become a full time garden professional. He has an associates degree in Landscape Design and Horticulture from Oakland Community College and several years experience maintaining gardens in the Detroit area and down in Florida. Rocky is truly a scholar of anything plant related and is constantly reading books, asking questions and expanding the knowledge of not only himself, but everyone around him.
Candice Larsen – Maintenance Foreman
Candice has been doing garden maintenance longer than all of us, but in many ways she is still our most passionate gardener. She has been with Bella Fiori for four years, but she has spent her life as an avid self-taught gardener. She brings the sort of hands on wisdom that can only be gained through a lifetime love of gardening. Candice is also a licensed pesticide applicator.