DesignScapes of Manasota, a 26-year-old landscape contracting firm based in Sarasota, was recently acquired by industry veterans Mark Bower and Bryson Raver. The company specializes in landscape design and build services but also incorporates landscape maintenance, irrigation, landscape lighting, hardscapes and grading and site work to their portfolio. The DesignScapes purchase is the second landscape acquisition Bower and Raver completed in 2016.