Stratton & Brätt, a privately owned Utah landscaper in Pleasant Grove, has purchased Elite Grounds LC, also a Pleasant Grove-based landscaping company. A release from the company said that Elite Grounds will handle all commercial and residential property maintenance while Stratton & Brätt focuses on designing and building new landscapes.

Stratton & Brätt specializes in large commercial and high-end residential projects like its current work on the St. George Temple. The company has landscape architects, arborists, aquatics, and desert xeriscaping experts working on projects locally as well as in Mexico and Haiti.

“Utah showcases amazing red-rock desert and mountain canvases on which to create stunning personal paradises for folks flocking to the Intermountain West,” said Zack Stratton, CEO at Stratton & Brätt. “Hundreds of happy corporate and residential clients pave the path to continuing quality work in the future. If you can dream it, we can build it.”

Elite Grounds brings a large maintenance portfolio to the joint company, Stratton said. It works in the areas of aquatics, residential, community and commercial landscaping.