Loth & SonLawn Care & Landscaping
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A Main Line stone house with a gabled roof and timbered entry porch, fronted by a lawn cut in clean stripes and a low clipped hedge along the drive.

A garden that looks like it was always there.

Terraces, walls, walks and planting across the Main Line, built and then looked after by one crew.

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  • Veteran owned
  • PA HIC #PA196377
  • Insured $1M / $2M
  • Family run since 2019

Before and after

The same ground, a few weeks apart.

  • Before: an overgrown bed at the end of a driveway, with a mailbox lost in the planting and the stone edge buried.Before
    After: the same corner cleared and rebuilt as a stepping-stone path in river stone, with a granite cobble edge, new planting and path lights.After

    Driveway cornerAn overgrown bed rebuilt as a stepping-stone path in river stone, with a cobble edge and low lighting.

  • Before: two air-conditioning condensers beside a house on loose gravel and scattered pavers, next to a cracked concrete walk.Before
    After: the same condensers standing on a level paver pad with a soldier-course border, tied into the concrete walk and the stone steps.After

    Side yardLoose gravel and scattered pavers replaced with a level paver pad, tied into the walk and the steps.

  • Before: an overgrown island bed around a tree in a front lawn, with a narrow gravel path running past it.Before
    After: the same front lawn with the bed cut back to a clean curve, freshly mulched, and the gravel path re-edged.After

    Front bedA bed that had swallowed its own edge, cut back to a clean curve and re-mulched.

These are the three jobs with photographs taken from the same spot before and after. Nothing here is staged and nothing is stock.

What we do

Design, build, and the years afterward.

We also do Renovations & carpentry · Seasonal cleanups — see all services.

How it works

Three steps to a property you stop thinking about.

  1. 01

    We walk the property

    Rathana comes out, looks at the ground, and listens to what is bothering you about it. Measurements get taken on the same visit.

  2. 02

    You get it in writing

    A written estimate comes back in one to two business days — what the work is, what it involves, and when it can happen. Estimates are free.

  3. 03

    One crew does the work

    The same people do the grading, the stone and the planting, and the same people come back in October to cut the beds in.

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Rathana walks the property himself and the estimate comes back in writing.

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Selected work

Stone, grade and planting on Main Line properties.

  • A curved flagstone stepping-stone path set in river stone, edged with granite cobble, running through a newly planted bed with path lighting.
    Stepping-stone path in river stone with a granite cobble edge, and a bed planted the same week.
  • A freshly mulched corner bed with hydrangea, fieldstone boulders and new plantings, curving around a tree at the edge of a lawn.
    Corner bed rebuilt around the tree: boulders set, bed cut, plants in, mulched.
  • A long island planting bed with a clean cut edge running through an open lawn, with mature trees and a street beyond.
    Island bed cut into an open lawn, with the edge held by hand rather than by plastic.
  • A narrow planting strip between a sidewalk and a lawn, freshly mulched with new low plantings and a fieldstone at one end.
    The strip between the walk and the lawn, planted and mulched as one piece of work.
  • Two crew members planting along a new gravel path, with flats of perennials and a wheelbarrow on the open ground.
    Planting the edges of a new path, the same week the stone went down.
  • A white-railed composite deck built onto a Main Line stone house, with new footings and regraded lawn below.
    Composite deck and rail on a stone house: footings, framing and the regrade underneath.

Every photograph is a Loth & Son job, taken on the property.

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Two names on the truck

Loth & Son is not a flourish.

  • Before

    Rathana Yen’s father started the company. Rathana grew up in it, in the beds and in the truck, learning the trade the way it has always been learned.

  • 2017

    He came home after nine years, a Sergeant, and came back to the work he grew up in.

  • Now

    His father is retired. The name still says both of them.

Which is why the person who walks your property is the person who sets the stone, and the person who comes back in October to cut the beds in.

More about the company
Rathana Yen in a Loth & Son branded shirt and cap, sitting in the open door of his truck reading a written work order on a clipboard.
Rathana. The estimate is written before anything is dug.

Where we work

Lower Merion Township, and out from there.

Most of the work sits inside a few square miles. The crew is minutes away when something needs another look.

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