Blue Spruce Landscape and Construction

Blue Spruce Landscape and Construction builds outdoor spaces for some of the most expensive homes in Silicon Valley. From a one-acre yard in Campbell, California, its crews handle grading, pools, water features, pool houses, and accessory dwellings, plus the gardens that tie them together. Jobs typically start in the mid six figures and run into the millions, and the longest take years. The company only maintains the landscapes it built, which gives it a recurring base worth roughly a quarter of revenue. It has never advertised. Its last marketing was a run of show gardens at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show decades ago, and every job since has come by word of mouth from clients and a few longtime architects. About 35 people work there, with average tenure of 15 to 20 years and one family on its third generation.

Jon Singley started the company in 1977 at 18, mowing lawns from a pickup truck to pay for junior college. He shut it down once to finish his degree at Cal Poly, worked in heavy construction, then restarted it and steered it toward the design-build work it is known for today. He led the state landscape contractors' association and has sat on his alma mater's advisory council for decades. At 67, with the best team he had ever had and a full pipeline, he and his wife Tanya, who ran the business side, decided it was time. They had turned down offers for the land under the yard over the years because closing the company would have put the crew out of work, and they screened buyers on the same principle: keep the people, keep the name, and stay on long enough to hand it over properly.

The business came to Rejigg in January 2025 with the owners' longtime advisors screening every buyer before Jon took a call. Interest was steady, 35 buyer conversations in all, but the fit was hard. Roll-ups wanted more recurring revenue than a project-driven builder carries, and individual buyers ran into California contractor licensing. By early 2026 Jon had come around to a different profile: a capable operator who would learn the trade rather than a landscaper by resume. Patrick McGonagle reached out on March 24, 2026. Jon replied the next day, the advisors screened him within 48 hours, both owners met him by video a week later, and Patrick spent a full day on site with Jon two days after that. A letter of intent followed in the spring, diligence ran through the summer, and the deal closed on September 1, 2026, a little over five months after the first message.

Patrick McGonagle is a Northern California local who spent twelve years in energy and sustainability, founded a company, and led it to an exit. He came to Rejigg self-funded and looking for one business to run hands-on for the long term, and he said so in his first message. That was the answer to the question the owners had been asking every buyer for a year. He moved quickly and in person, the two sides structured the deal themselves without a bank, and Jon is staying on through the transition, so the crew that has worked together for decades reports to the same faces while the new owner learns the business from the ground up.