Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
Maybe you haven’t heard. After all, this is one very quiet company. But its founders are banking on it making a loud noise in the…
The H-2B seasonal guest worker program has been one of the big reasons for the growth of the professional landscape industry this past decade. Without…
The media around the world has run articles about the Memphis, TN, lawn care company that uses young ladies in bikinis to mow customers' lawns.…
Aidan E. Monahan, president of Monhan's Landscaping Inc., Arlington Heights, IL, is being charged with cheating the Chicago Pulbic Schools out of $1.5 million. Prosecutors…
Oh where do we begin? There are so many problems with this story.First the background. A Memphis, TN landscaper has hired a number of shapely…
Orem, UT, means business when it comes to its lawns. And I mean business.A couple of weeks ago I reported on the city hiring TruGreen…
Talked to Matt of Matt's Fast Lawn Care this morning. "We need rain," says Matt, who only gets paid when he's out there mowing. Don't…
I wouldn't worry -- yet.Last year, Popular Science magazine ran an article entitled "Where's My Flying Car?" It focused on a lot of the technology…
For some reason I find the following new product pitch amusing. Flashback to a Monty Python skit? The part about the Elvis home in Palm…
“It gets worse in America everyday. We can’t even deport Fidel Castro.” That’s what one reader wrote on the Naple News Web site in response…
Henry Williams, 63, died Tuesday, June 19, when the tractor he was operating fell down a 70-ft. hill and eventually landed on top of him.…
If you want to know why members of the Professional Landcare Network keep going back to Arlington National and Old Congressional cemeteries in Washington D.C.…
Jaskaran Heir has been mowing lawns for the past six years and has done quite well at it, according to an article in the online…
Mark Kramer, president of JBK Landscape in Aurora, CO, perfectly described the employment issues so many companies are having — not being able to find…
In Landscape Management, we’ve written a lot about the trend of outdoor rooms being a huge component of landscape design/build. But according to this article…
East Cleveland, OH Mayor Eric Brewer has asked city firefighters to start cutting grass and perform other jobs during their down time. The firefighters, naturally,…
Too often when tales of crime and landscape are put together it is the contractor who comes out smelling like fertilizer. But in this case…
It's a tough row to hoe, this $3.50-plus per gallon of gasoline. Don't see how people making less than $10 an hour can afford to…
KSWO Channel 7 News broadcast the plight of Kevin Williams, a landscaper in Lawton, OK. His company maintains about 85 lawns. On the broadcast he…
Today is gas boycott day. Since I filled up last night when the price was a mere $3.19 a gallon . . . no problemo.…
A little healthy competition can be good for business. But three Knoxville, TN, brothers that started a maintenance operation may just make their Knoxville area…
Talk about getting ripped. Wow, did Steve Daniels, the anchor for ABC 11 in Raleigh, NC, unload on the professional lawn care community, even though…
NANTUCKET, MA — Today’s question: Assume during the course of your workday as a landscaper you rake up a hand grenade, what should you do?1.…
Responding to growing concerns about the environment, then-U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, (D-WI), called for an Environmental Teach-in or Earth Day to be held on April…
