Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
If you’re a business owner and you see an attractive, confident young lady dressed in business attire purposefully striding your way with tv cameraman in…
Raul Feliciano,CLM, is a landscape pro in Puerto Rico that knows his stuff. A college graduate, he has a certificate in Commercial Horticulture/Landscape Management from…
Cactus rustling isn’t new to the arid Southwest. Folks have been lifting beautiful specimen plants from public lands for a long, long time, and it's…
Murray Cook has one of the most interesting jobs in the world. He travels the globe installing baseball fields and teaching other people how to…
The Kitsap (WA) Sun newspaper reported on a strange theft the other day. A landscaper there reported that the 50 two-gallon barberry plants he installed…
While I enjoy playing 9 holes from time to time, I’m not a good golfer. I usually play at a local municipal course. My favorite…
Despite relocating their business from Seattle to Meridian, Idaho, a couple of teenage boys are finding success with an environmentally friendly landscape company. From the…
Two Brickman employees died in a freak accident on a sightseeing bus on July 11. The Loudon Times reported the story:Josh Stoll, 24, of Sterling,…
I hope that Wayne Horman of Scotts Turf-Seed is wrong but I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Horman was quoted in The Capital…
I don't think this industry get's enough credit for all the good work it does. Not only do landscapers and lawn care operators keep our…
Here's an article featuring a landscape professional with a heart of gold. It appeared in the Monday, June 23, issue of the Norwood, MA, Daily…
Congo the German shepherd made one attack too many — this one injuring and sending the 75-year-old mother of its owner to a hospital. Congo,…
Last week California's Governator declared the state was in an official drought and ordered water be transported to the driest areas. This is a very…
I read with great interest a recent article in the Vineland (MA) Gazette that told how businesses on Martha’s Vineyard are surviving in spite of…
Dan Gardner is a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen newspaper. To my knowledge Dan’s salary is not tied in any way to the agrichemical industry,…
In the category of man bites dog in light of the near hysteria over lawn pesticide use that’s infected Canada, the council of Parry Sound,…
Clean Air Lawn Care looks like it might take off. The lawn service company, which is based in Fort Collins, CO, uses electric and biodiesel-fueled…
Residents of Corona, CA are asking their city leaders to raise landscaping fees. In fact they're trying to force the city into action. Apparently aan…
Several homes in Mukwonago, WI, have been targeted by thieves who are making away with trees, flowers and shrubs.According to Newsradio 620 in Wisconsin: Elsie…
DES MOINES, IA — The feds are finding lots of wage violations among landscape/lawn service companies, says Percella Maupins, the wage hour district director for…
As protests go, this one is strictly small time. But it reflects what anybody who runs a route service business is feeling right now.Earl Humphreys…
Bert’s Bar & Grill in Matlacha, FL, is the kind of joint you would hope to stumble onto assuming you were lucky enough to stumble…
Eli Estrada, the 40-year-old landscaper who found $140,000 in unmarked $20s and turned it into police, is somewhat of a celebrity in Southern California. When…
The United Press International reports that Jay Herrod, the professional landscaper that wears a short green skirt when he's mowing, is going to have put…
