[4] The treatments and services include weed killing, moss suppression, pesticides, aeration, overseeding, and fertilizing.
[7] The company history includes several changes of ownership and the absorption of other lawn servicing operations including ChemGreen (originally founded in 1974) and Scotts LawnService (originally founded as Emerald Green Lawn Service before its purchase in 1997 by the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company).
ChemLawn was founded in 1969 by Paul and Dick Duke in Troy, Ohio, and it became a large service provider in the 1970s.
The private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice had majority ownership along with company management.
In 2024, TruGreen moved its C-suite to Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville although the headquarters remain in Memphis.