Rossville’s H and H Landscape owner/Rossville Vice Mayor Hal Gray, left, and Thomas Bird check out a pond H and H Landscape built for the Bird family in their backyard.Hal Gray serves the area in more than one way.
On select evenings, the Chickamauga law enforcement officer helps preside over Rossville City Council meetings as vice mayor. By day he keeps watch over people’s yards, helping beautify the area as the owner of H and H Landscape.
“We’ve done well and stayed busy,” said Gray, who started the business in his Rossville home in 1996. “A lot of people wanted mulch. So we decided to sell an assortment of mulch and plants. We have red mulch, black mulch, brown colored mulch, brown hardwood mulch, super-black gold mulch and landscape mix.”
He opened the storefront earlier this year. Named for his and his daughter Hali’s names, he hopes she will work summers at H and H Landscape.
“I was raised to work,” said Gray, adding that he used a sling blade or bush hog in his youth to clean up property.