Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
ServiceMaster, parent company of TruGreen ChemLawn, TruGreen Landscare and Terminix, is moving the 120 managers and executives remaining in its longtime headquarters in Downers Grove,…
Council members on Bainbridge Island, WA, said that chemical pest controls were verbotin on public properties . . .That was until a week or so…
LM Staff and LM StaffFeb 27, 2023
Bilingual crew members and support are critical when training non-English-speaking employees.
LM StaffNov 9, 2023
Washington, DC, forum focuses on the big issues affecting lawn care and what they mean to its future.
Bruce WilsonNov 9, 2023
The key lies in keeping the program simple and targeted.
When readers visit LM's Web page they can submit a question via e-mail and those questions are routed to me. The other day I got…
Could ServiceMaster (NYSE-SVM) be moving its headquarters from its longtime location in Downers Grove, IL, to this vibrant mid-South city? That's more than a possibility,…
The biggest hazard to a landscape worker on the job?1. Big machinery with whirring blades?2. Relentless exposure to the sun and heat?3. Robbers, lunatics and…
A good friend, the owner of a nice lawn care company in Texas, called me the other day with a lot of bad news. In…
The 2-year extension of the H2B seasonal immigrant guest worker program expires Sept. 30. And everybody - I mean everybody - is strangely quiet about…
Elizabeth Senske, 87, died last week. Who's Elizabeth Senske you ask? She, along with Bill her husband of 65 years, founded what may have been…
Dog poop. I hate dog poop. I hate walking a dog - in this case my son's 14-year-old beagle, Sparky - and having to pick…
It's official. The average temperature for the continental United States from January through June 2006 was the warmest first half of any year since records…
More than 40,000 people in the U.S. die annually as the result of automobile accidents, yet many us accept bad and aggressive driving like it's…
Along with the usual hazards of the job (heat, working with whirring blades and big equipment, low-hanging branches) comes the hazard of digging up a…
This year's Renewal and Remembrance service project was huge, almost 300 volunteers working in Arlington National and Congressional Cemeteries in Washington D.C. Workers flooded in…
Now that Canada's Quebec Province has all but made the possession and use of lawn chemicals a capital offense (ok, so I'm exaggerating a bit),…
If buy perennial ryegrass or turf-type tall fescue seed, expect to pay more this year, as much as 20% more for perennial rye and the…
Bombs. Rockets. Air strikes. There's nothing more predictable than people killing each other in the Middle East. With the price of a barrel of crude…
We get so many phone calls and e-mails about our annual LM 100 list. Some are good, some are bad and some are downright ugly.…
Carey Dix, owner of Dix Landscaping, Jupiter, FL, was reunited with his 10-foot statue of Yogi Bear this past week. It seems that someone "borrowed"…
David J. Frank jumped into the Green Industry as a 10-year-old with a gardening service on the east side of Milwaukee. In 1973 he moved…
The fireworks are over, the barbeque grill is getting a much needed rest and the recycle container is filled with beer bottles (empty of course).Here's…
Please, somebody speak up and let us know what's going on with the 3-year extension to the Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act. U.S.…
