Carthage is the kind of Hancock County town where the courthouse anchors everything. The square sets the visual tone for downtown, the residential streets that fan out from it carry older homes with deep front lawns and original character, and the roads heading out toward Highway 136 and Highway 94 lead quickly into farmstead-style lots and country properties. Each setting comes with its own outdoor priorities, from preserving a long-loved front yard near the square to building a serious outdoor living space on a five-acre rural-edge lot.

Bergman Nurseries was founded in Quincy, Illinois in 1939 and has served the region continuously since then. That history gives our crews real experience in small Hancock County communities like Carthage, where reputation moves fast, properties get noticed, and the work has to hold up to West Central Illinois weather and the kind of long winters that punish anything built halfway.

Hancock County Familiarity

We have spent decades in and out of Carthage and the surrounding Hancock County roads, so our designers and crews already know the soils, the streetscapes, and the kind of finishes Carthage property owners expect.

Comfortable Around Historic Square Properties

A meaningful share of our Carthage work happens on older homes and small businesses near the Hancock County Courthouse square, where access, equipment staging, and design choices have to respect the existing architecture and the streetscape.

At Home on Country-Edge Lots

Many of our favorite Carthage projects sit on larger country-edge and farmstead-style properties, where there is room for layered planting beds, paver patios, fire features, and outdoor living spaces sized to the lot.

One Team From Plan to Plow

Carthage clients get landscape design, installation, irrigation, maintenance, commercial care, and snow service from one Bergman Nurseries team, which keeps the property looking right whether it is the first warm weekend of spring or the middle of a January storm.