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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
National
Oona Goodin-Smith

Philly's Four Seasons Total Landscaping dishes the dirt on the news conference heard 'round the world

Marie Siravo (second from left), owner of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, poses for a portrait with her son, Michael (left), her daughter-in-law, Melissa, (second from right) and Sean Middleton (right), outside their office. The landscaping business is dealing with their sudden fame after Rudy Giuliani's press conference. Michael is the operations manager. Melissa runs human resources. Sean is director of sales. (DAVID MAIALETTI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

PHILADELPHIA — These days, Marie Siravo can't go anywhere without everybody knowing her business.

She was a thousand miles from home, in a Naples, Florida, Homegoods checkout line last month, when a woman recognized Siravo's strong Philadelphia accent and said, "How about that landscaping company?"

"I said, 'I am that landscaping company,'" she replied, laughing.

And now, when Siravo, 65, goes to work at the unassuming one-story red brick industrial building on State Road, home to Four Seasons Total Landscaping for the last 20 years, "not a day goes by where there's not a crowd outside."

But things are different now for everyone at Four Seasons Total Landscaping after President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani hosted an off-the-rails news conference there one sunny Saturday morning in early November.

Marie Siravo, owner of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, poses for a portrait outside their office. The landscaping business is dealing with their sudden fame after Rudy Giuliani's press conference. (DAVID MAIALETTI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)

On Thanksgiving, two sisters met halfway between Bethlehem and New York for a feast outside her office. Another woman brought a small Christmas tree and her children, so they could take a holiday card photo in front of the green awning. Visitors have lit votive candles and left decorated signs at the barbed wire fence, staging photo ops. People from across the world have bought her company T-shirts, sending pictures of themselves proudly wearing the Four Seasons logo.

"We're a Wikipedia now!" Siravo said.

Some have asked Siravo if they could have a party or host weddings at the lot. "This is a construction yard, that's a liability," she said, laughing again. "But it did make us paint the back of the building, because we said, 'Who knew that our garage doors were going to be the back of every Zoom meeting?'"

People have sent cheesesteaks, Domino's pizza gift cards, beard oil, fruit gift baskets and more to their front door, while others have stopped foremen on the job to ask for selfies with their truck.

"The response is overwhelming, that there's still so, so many good people in the world, and they got to laugh with this," Siravo said Monday from the Four Seasons Total Landscaping conference room. Plastered behind her was a homemade sign featuring photos of Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty and Giuliani with what is presumably hair dye running down his face. It's emblazoned with the words "Ride or Dye."

"And it was nothing we anticipated."

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