Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
Things aren't so hot for property developers right now. In fact, they look pretty scary. It seems a big developer in Indianapolis has run into…
Here’s some nice things I ran across over the holidays. I hope they make you smile.FIRST OF THE YEARChristopher and Crystal Childers got a nice…
LM Staff, Landscape Management and LMOct 14, 2024
Strategies to survive and perhaps even prosper in spite of the delay or loss of H-2B workers
Wow, this is weird. Because Congress has failed to act on extending the exemption to H-2B, circuses say they'll be unable to bring in immigrant…
I don't how many of you got out of bed Christmas morning thankful to get a free meal of tamales, rice and beans, but apparently…
I don’t know Michael Lesser and have never met him. But he wrote an article in the Portsmouth Herald, which I accessed via Seacoast Online,…
To say that I’ve become increasingly cynical of the ability of our federal government, or any of its various bureaucracies, to deliver efficient and sane…
LM StaffDec 17, 2014
My 18-month-old daughter Ava has taught me to be a tough negotiator when it comes to TV time. Now that I think about it, she’s taught me a lot of other lessons that can be used in the business world too.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney fired his landscape company after reporters from the Boston Globe discovered that the company continued to maintain his property with…
A narrow alley separated our two houses, and for years our neighbors kept a dog in their back yard. It was a cross between a…
Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2021
Kelly Heyboer on blog.nj shows just how strongly people feel about Congo, probably the most famous German Shepherd since Rin Tin Tin. Congo remains in…
There are a lot of big red squirrels in my neighborhood. I don’t know how many because they all look alike to me. Actually, there…
There’s a right way to do things and a wrong way. Or, in the case of immigrant workers, there’s the legal way and the illegal…
While landscapers now have some pretty cool-looking zero-turn mowers to zip around lawns on, when it comes time for some of the detailed work, the…
“All politics is local,” said the late Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, a longtime speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress.Let it be acknowledged here (and…
You've heard us sound the rally cry for action many times. Primarily (or at least recently) we've amplified the calls of those who have been…
The Missouri Botanical Garden set a new recycling record in 2007 with the collection of over 100,000 lbs. of horticultural plastic originally destined for landfills.…
How would you like me, an editor, to put together licensing legislation for landscape contractors in my home state of Ohio? Not a good idea?…
My wife of 38-plus years, Vicky, keeps reminding me: “If you have your hand closed tight, you can’t receive anything.” I take that to mean…
I flew into Charlotte, NC, today after having spent a couple of days in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, VA, and the only kind of grass…
The Web site Treehugger.com has pulled together a feature on lawnmower bikes. Perfect for either bike enthusiasts, environmentalists or that ever-growing population of bike enthusiast…
Proving there is no end to notion that truth is stranger than fiction, we shouldn't have been surprised when we read the headline on the…
Pigs generally aren’t considered turfgrass pests. But, at least in one recent incident in East Lyme, CT, they did more damage to a homeowner’s lawn…
Landscapers around the country (along with a number of other industries) consider their next moves now that the provision for U.S. legislators have failed to…
