Happy holidays!: Most of the Landscape Management team got together in front of a giant Christmas tree for our holiday card. Seth is in front, with (left to right) Jake Goodman, Sydney Fischer, Scott Hollister, Bill Roddy, Craig MacGregor, Nathan Mader (seated), Rob DiFranco, Payton Szymczak, Nader Hassen and Pete Seltzer. (Photo: LM staff)
Check out a few of the places where the LM team made its rounds recently!
Big views of the Big Easy: (Left to right) Chase Campbell, Fallaize Insurance Agency; Cal Fallaize, Fallaize Insurance Agency; and Nate Negrin, SouthernEEZ Landscaping, enjoyed the ACE Summit riverboat cruise with the New Orleans city skyline as their backdrop. (Photo: LM staff)
The award goes to …: The Most Innovative ACE Award was presented to Bret Schmitz, owner, CFO, and Robyn Schmitz, owner/founder/CEO, High Prairie Outdoor, Kansas City, Kan. Their trophy is a mini Chris Psencik cut-out. That’ll look good on the mantle! (Photo: LM staff)
We meet again: The last time Adrianne and Seth Jones (left) hung out with Levi and Jessica Duckett, Sunshine Landscape, they were all in Italy. Ducketts, let’s keep meeting up in these beautiful locations, OK? (Photo: LM staff)
A couple of lovely couples: At the 2025 ACS Summit in New Orleans, we saw Vince Torchia, vice president, The Grow Group, and his wife Skylar (left) with Greg Herring, founder and CEO, The Herring Group, and his wife Pat. (Photo: LM staff)
The Ryans and the Joneses: A nice way to wrap up a successful 2024 — Larry Ryan and his wife Kathy (left) met up with LM’s Seth Jones and his family — left to right, Evey, Adrianne and Boyd in the Spider-Man hoodie — for lunch at their favorite Mexican restaurant in Baldwin City, Kan., El Patron. (Photo: LM staff)
Mardi Gras spirit: Hats off to Tommy Cole (left), vice president, McFarlin Stanford, and Ryan Boyd (second from left), owner, Twisted Vines Lawn and Landscaping, for showing that Mardi Gras spirit. They’re pictured with Tony Distefano (second from right), president, Angelo’s Landscape Group, and Jason Dill (right), landscape architect and design + build director, Angelo’s Landscape Group. (Photo: LM staff)
All aboard!: During the ACE Summit, the group took a riverboat tour. Ready to set sail are (left to right) Steve Scarsella, president, Brothers Services; Chase Coates, president, Outback Landscape; Jason Cromley, owner, Hidden Creek Landscaping; Forrest Bowen, president and CEO, MBL Inc.; and Torchia. The bartender who photobombed us? Well, we can’t explain that one. (Photo: LM staff)
Riverboat buds: (Left to right) Andy DuBois, CFO, Miracle Farms Landscaping; James Cali, founding principal, McFarlin Stanford; and Hayden Maroun, senior vice president, Miracle Farms Landscaping, took time for a photo as the ACE Summit cruise wrapped up. (Photo: LM staff)
Another couple of lovely couples: (Left to right)
Nate Jensen, owner, Jensen
Gardens, and Jim Egan, owner, Land Design Associates, with their better halves, Jen Egan
and Jamie Jensen. (Photo: LM staff)
Sneak preview: Members of the industry press got an inside look at John Deere’s work to bring autonomous solutions to a variety of industries — including landscaping — during an event in Gilroy, Calif., in November. This stand-on mower is one of the equipment prototypes officially unveiled this month at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. (Photo: LM staff)
