Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
How many ‘scapings can you name?Hmm — landscaping, interiorscaping, greenscaping, hardscaping, skyscaping (LM’s admittedly imaginative term for green roofs) and why not waterscaping? Did we…
The concept of green roofs is well established in the United States, indeed internationally. Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) offered its first accreditation exams…
TruGreen supports a lively and growing network of franchises in the United Kingdom. The Servicemaster company recently unveiled a new look on the lawn care…
What to you get when you combine a former star athlete, a landscaper’s uniform, Craigslist, an inner tube and DNA in a single caper?. .…
Not every green roof is an engineering marvel. Here's a simple and quaint green roof at the Mulberry Creek Herb Farm in Huron, OH. It…
If you want to learn how to catch rainwater at your home to supply your daily needs, including watering your landscape, you might want to…
Green roofs — roofs with an impermeable surface covered with a special soil mix and nurturing live plants — offer the following benefits:— add insulation…
The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has declined sharply since mid-decade, but there is no evidence of an increase during this…
Written by North Carolina State University horticulturalists Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford, "Rain Gardening in the South", provides great information on the wise use our…
James Young, president of Spring-Green Lawn Care Corp., based in Plainfield, IL, says the company offers “organic” lawn care service in addition to the traditional…
One of the aims of NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association), headquartered in Stevenson, CT, is to spread the word about organic growing methods and discourage…
Here’s a chance to help one of our own receive positive national recognition. Kelly Giard, founder of Clean Air Lawn Care, is one of five…
Steve Tusen is a neighbor I didn’t know, not until this past Sunday that is. Steve’s Garden Railroad was one of 10 local gardens selected…
Why is it that people, including some professional cutters, keep mowing lawns so short?Travel through just about any neighborhood and you will see turfgrass on…
For $3,300 you can buy a report from Packaged Facts telling you that the lawn and garden industry is cranking along relatively well in this…
I like the name “Joe”. Everybody that I’ve known by that name has been a regular guy, hard worker, dependable, uncomplicated.So it’s not surprising to…
My wife, Vicky, and I live on a brick street shaded by massive silver maples in a city of approximately 6,000 people in northern Ohio.…
LM Staff and LM StaffAug 7, 2012
LAKE FOREST, CA — Underhill International offers a new series of swing joints for Mirage long-throw sports field sprinklers. Available in ductile iron and PVC,…
There are more exciting ways to spend a summer day than to walk around under a hot summer sun and check out the differences among…
The generation of the Great Depression has faded away, and so too has the political ranker of that era. Few individuals remain of that era…
If you’re a young owner or just starting your landscaping business you might want to follow the example of Columbus, OH-area company owner Tim Chiles,…
Which is the better turftype tall fescue cultivar — Tarheel II or Wolfpack II?An innocent enough question, given that the question surfaced at a turfgrass…
If you’re in the landscaping business and looking for a new revenue opportunity, take a couple of minutes to investigate adding synthetic turf installations to…
Labor is the single largest expense for landscape companies. In these economically challenged times when everybody is looking for every efficiency, a remote-control mower that…
