Fantastic foursome: (From left) LM’s Jones and Jim Cummins, national sales manager, made a trek to Sarasota, Fla., for a round of golf with the team from Numerator Technologies. The pair are pictured with Numerator’s Jim Turner and Carlyle Merring, the superintendent at Sara Bay Country Club. (Photo: LM staff)
Check out a few of the places where the LM team made its rounds recently!
Terrific trio: (From left) John Fowler with Amazing Grass in Bel Air, Md., and his wife, Carrie, caught up with Jones at a reception during the LM Growth Summit. (Photo: LM staff)
Practice makes
perfect: LM’s Editorial Director Seth Jones (left) snapped a selfie with John Perry, president of Greene County Fertilizer Co., on the driving range before the golf outing at the LM Growth Summit. (Photo: LM staff)
Golf GOATs: OK, maybe not, but Hollister and his group — (from left) Justin Hatfield from Chesterfield Lawns & Landscapes, Dave Feist with Sipcam Agro and Joshua Stewart with Lawn Doctor of Baldwin and Mobile Counties — still had a heck of time on the golf course at the LM Growth Summit. (Photo: LM staff)
Expanding networks: The LM Growth Summit benefited the event’s partners as much as it did the lawn care operators in attendance. Pictured from left are Jeremy King, Kevin Lewis and Jason Hinkley — all with Ewing Outdoor Supply — joined Brad Hendrickson from Turfco for a quick photo during one of the evening receptions. (Photo: LM staff)
MANTS meet-up: At the Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show in Baltimore, the LM team caught up with the crew for Atticus. From left are Hollister; Paul Fox, Mike Sorensen and Jane Stanley with Atticus; and LM’s Nader Hassen. (Photo: LM staff)
Mates at MANTS: While at MANTS 2026 in Baltimore, Hollister and Hassen bumped into Friend of LM Nick Carlson (center), the founder and inventor of Mulch Mate. (Photo: LM staff)
Executive privilege: Jones (right) spent some time in the Lone Star State for Jeffrey Scott’s Executive Retreat in January. He’s pictured here with Corine Koornhof with Jeffrey Scott Consulting and attendee Phil Schoggen, Schoggenscapes, Clinton, Miss. (Photo: LM staff)
The 19th Hole: At the 13th annual LM Growth Summit, (from left) Bob Brower with Lawn Plus in West Alexandria, Ohio; Dani McFadden with PBI-Gordon and LM’s Scott Hollister traded stories from their rounds of golf on the Palmer Course at Orlando’s Reunion Resort. (Photo: LM staff)
Masterminds: Hollister (left) traveled to Northern California to spend some time with LM columnist and CEO of K&D Landscaping Justin White as K&D played host to
a facility tour that was a part
of the Irrigation Mastermind Conference hosted by
IrriTech Training. (Photo: LM staff)
Fore!: The annual PGA Show in Orlando isn’t the first place you’d think you’d fine two landscaping luminaries, but Jones (left) ran into Paul Jamison at the event. The host of the Green Industry Podcast who also has a popular YouTube channel, Jamison is also a golf fanatic with a growing online presence in that space as well. (Photo: LM staff)