Landscape ManagementApr 29, 2013
As Ron mentioned yesterday, the Landscape Management team is busy here in Orlando at Green Industry Expo. We're testing equipment, meeting readers and looking out…
Nothing stays the same and industries, like people, change. The same goes for trade shows. The Green Industry Expo is underway in Orlando this week.…
If you're expecting to read about some issue related to landscape or grounds care in this blog, you can stop. If you want to read…
Lawmakers in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada, were supposed to vote on a bylaw to ban the use of lawn care chemicals. There are…
We got a news release the other day about a guy by the name of Steve Sandalis. Not only has his face and/or chiseled body…
Can an aging editor, one with a scarcity of hair but still somewhat lively of step, learn the tango? That's the question. When David Zerfoss…
The job requires that I stay close to my computer and the Web, which means I spend a fair amount of time in libraries and…
Those of you who have been to big trade shows like EXPO and GIE know what it's all about: The maze of booths inside, mowers…
Thanks Mr. Fred Haskett, who along with his lovely wife Kelly, operate a U.S. Lawns franchise in St. Louis. He was the speaker we (Landscape…
The buzz at this year's OPEI EXPO in Louisville centers around the possibility of combining it with the Green Industry Expo (GIE), the trade show…
There's a new "smoke shop" on the main street of of our town. I walk or drive by it every day. It's a busy place.…
The headlines today trumpet the catastrophic and potentially catastrophic, the effect of it is to: a) remind of us of that terrible things happen and…
How many people are living and working in the United States without authorization, so-called illegals? I've heard somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-12 million. How'd…
A beautiful weekend here along the south shore of the great big pond we call Lake Erie and everybody is movin' and groovin'. The roads…
LM StaffJan 8, 2015
A defining event 31 years ago set this landscape company owner on the road to professionalism.
I’ve always been slightly disappointed in the lack of technological progress in the world. Sure, we now have portable telephones that also take pictures, record…
The Hungarian government is serious about weed control. Serious in a way opposite from many North American regional and local governments. Hungary recently introduced a…
Watching news reports of Congress skewering ex-FEMA chief Michael Brown over the Katrina response debacle reinforces, for me anyway, the ever-growing conviction that governments, all…
When Hurricane Andrew roared through south Florida in 1992 it flattened somewhere between 25,000 - 28,000 homes (depending upon whose numbers you take) and damaged…
I spent Thursday and half of Friday with a dozen folks from the Ohio Landscape Association (www.ola.com). They invited me to participate in their strategic…
Who would have guessed it after an awful April and early May, but the Cleveland Indians are playing great baseball and look like they may…
Flew into Las Vegas this afternoon for the RISE Annual Conference. The temperature was 97 F. when we got off the plane — hey, it's…
The wife and I went to some yard sales this morning. We rode our bikes and stayed in the neighborhood. The neat part of yard…
Tonight was escape night. Like a junkie this past week, I've been addicted to every aspect of Hurricane Katrina's destruction. It seemed like I couldn't…
