A pool takes longer to build than the yard around it. All American Landscape plans its backyards around that.
The company has a partnership with several pool builders around Las Vegas. The builders hold the license for the pool, and All American Landscape holds the license for the landscaping around it. The arrangement is about timing. “We know their schedule when they’re doing their work, when our time is to come in, so that everything gets done at the same time,” says Stacey Sharman, who owns the company with her husband, Jason. The aim is that when the pool fills with water, the landscaping is already done and the homeowners can use the backyard right away. The pool is always the longer part.
High-end residential landscaping around pools is the work Stacey names first when she talks about what the company does best. A homeowner whose yard went in alongside a new pool later described the crew working around the pool build and taking it in stride when the owners changed their design choices several times.
The Sharmans started the company in 2000. Stacey runs the office, and Jason is “in and out doing everything else.”
For most of those years the business was the two of them. Then their sons joined. The older one graduated from UNLV in 2023 and the younger in 2024, and both played baseball there. They grew up watching their parents work for themselves, with a schedule that let the family get to games and travel, and after graduating they decided to come back and help. A nephew the same age, who went to CSN, has worked for the company, and a niece who grew up in Las Vegas came back to town to work there as well.
That many relatives changes how the office runs. Appointment reminders go out by automated text, but everything else is handled by a family member, and the family holds meetings so everyone knows what is going on with every job. No one is assigned a project as theirs alone. “We’re all working together as a unit so everyone is familiar, everyone knows what’s going on, everyone can help out,” Stacey says. Whoever picks up the phone should be able to answer a customer’s question about any yard on the schedule.
The children grew up in Las Vegas, and the family treats each yard as if it were its own, because the customer could be a neighbor or a relative. The city is big but still feels small: “No matter where you go, you’re going to run into somebody that you know.”
Stacey is from Kansas, where people are known for their work ethic, and the example she reaches for is her husband’s. Jason started mowing lawns at about 12 and wanted a car by 16. That meant more lawns, and pushing the mowers by hand from yard to yard wasn’t going to work. So he hooked a trailer to his bicycle and towed the mowers through the neighborhood.