Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
I went in for a routine annual physical exam in December and it ended up costing me hundreds of dollars out of pocket, not to…
Spring is almost here, which means landscape professionals are looking to fill out their staffs with hard-working, enterprising and motivated employees. And then they won't…
In his previous post, Ron was complaining about the landscaping news coming in all being negative. Well, here's one landscaper who made the news in…
For the past year or so, I've been joking to our friends at Cub Cadet that I'm waiting to see pictures of LeBron James riding…
I spent a few days fishing with my son, Jason, cruising the mangroves in a flat-bottom boat in southwest Florida this past week. The fishing…
Coming soon to a company near you — an immigrant worker implanted with 16-digit RFID chip. Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not this year. But. .…
"When I was mowing lawns, I saw myself in a truck checking on the men. When I was in the truck, I saw myself in…
Louisville, KY, in mid winter is not one of America's party cities. But it is a darn good location to hold a big educational/networking event.…
Granted the Internal Revenue Service tax code is long, complicated and best left to those green-shaded, pasty accountant types. But that's not to say we…
Fox News in Memphis is reporting that ServiceMaster, parent company of TruGreen ChemLawn, Terminix and Merry Maids is building a new $122 million headquarters two…
In it's never ending struggle to make the world a safer place it seems the Environmental Protection Agency delivered a dumbfounding ruling, one which might…
Sometimes, when we've come across a news story about a landscaper being robbed or worse, most of the time it's a case of being in…
Contractors are so busy thinking about the next sale or the next day's operations they too often neglect to protect what they've got. If you…
"The best thing that could be for this man is that he gets locked up because if I ever run into him he's going to…
Moles can be a serious and frustrating problem, but some things are just better left to the professionals. In a scenario reminiscent of Bill Murray…
Sometimes, and I only mean sometimes - when I'm feeling particularly generous - I feel sorry for the EPA. At least, as sorry as you…
Check out this “school” if you're short of help and looking for an employee with some Green Industry knowledge - the school of hard knocks.The…
Kevin Campanella, a landscaper from Rhode Island, was featured in an article celebrating the holiday of Festivus, an anti-Christmas holiday created on Seinfeld. If you…
Countrywide Lawn Doctor, a UK-based landscaper is offering free franchises. It's a brilliant marketing scheme, but will it hurt the industry? The company is getting…
Give Snow King John Allin credit. The former Erie, PA-landscape company owner and one of the forces in the formative years of the Snow &…
Jim and Lea Sharp, Sharp Lawns, Mooresville, IN, say the holiday decorating season keeps getting longer and longer, with some customers wanting their home decorations…
LM StaffDec 18, 2014
We've heard about many landscape companies are offering holiday decorating as an add-on service. From what I've seen so far this season, for the sake of good taste, even more companies need to be doing this.
