LM StaffNov 3, 2023
With more than 15 percent of Country Club Lawn & Tree Specialists’ 30-plus employees starting work remotely on any given day, Co-owner Mark Black knew…
Marisa PalmieriNov 3, 2023
No matter what you call it, a companywide effort to run more efficiently has the potential to sound negative to the crews you’re hoping to…
When Peter Stewart, horticulturist and designer, joined Envisioning Green last year, he was the firm’s first “plant guy.” At the time, plant replacement costs were…
LM StaffNov 7, 2023
In what one area could most landscape companies be more efficient? Landscape Professionals Richard Bare Arbor-Nomics Turf Norcross, Ga. “Have someone look into the back…
Beginning in 2015, Toledo Lawns in Toledo, Ohio, streamlined almost all its processes using a collection of Google applications. “It’s really changed the way we…
When Boston-area landscape and tree company Hartney Greymont lost its scheduling manager, who took 25-plus years of routing knowledge with him, the company’s staff was…
Jonathan Orcutt, owner of Driven Landscapes in Norfolk, Mass., has saved at least two hours per week since discovering a cloud-based device that lets employees…
After years of paying a separate entity to pick up and dump its recyclable materials, Brian-Kyles Landscapes of Distinction in Lorain, Ohio, came up with…
Jeffrey ScottNov 3, 2023
The following seven time management musts will allow you to get an enormous amount accomplished with less effort in any given week. I call these…
1-R Landscaping in Belvidere, N.J., is only in its first season using Yardbook, a landscaping business software, but it already has changed the way the…
Accounting for irrigation replacement parts can be “a nightmare,” says Mike Martinez, owner of Newtex Landscape in Henderson, Nev. The 100-employee firm does mostly commercial…
Chad Diller drastically cut the time he spent writing emails when he discovered templates. “I realized I was constantly sending the same emails over and…
A year and a half ago, Cody Stickle’s desk was piled high with paperwork, his crews’ trucks were cluttered with receipts and the accuracy of…
Everyone has different reasons for loving Fridays. The employees of Deep Roots Landscape Contractors in Merritt Island, Fla., like the week’s bookend because it’s when…
Last year, Jesse Wisely, owner of Mid-South Irrigation in Memphis, Tenn., a mostly residential design/build and irrigation firm with just under $1 million in revenue,…
For more than a decade, Mazelis Landscape Contracting has operated with the mindset that it’s more efficient and profitable to leave landscape bed maintenance to…
The reason Clean Scapes in Austin, Texas, wanted to move away from paper-based purchase order processing was twofold. “For one, we knew paper printing was…
LM StaffMar 19, 2021
John Deere made its JDLink available as a factory-installed option on all new John Deere large-frame G-Series skid-steers (330G, 332G) and compact track loaders (331G, 333G). JDLink…
Waiting four hours for a service technician to change a flat skid-steer tire costs Oakridge Landscape Contractors more than $600 when you factor in a…
Kevin Shackleford, owner of Shackleford Landscape Group in Bear, Del., has replaced most face-to-face meetings with tools like iPhone’s FaceTime or Skype. Surprisingly, there’s been…
To quell unproductive Fridays, Outback Landscape, a $2.5 million mostly design/build company in Idaho Falls, Idaho, went to a four-day workweek for its production staff.…
Two years ago, Timothee Sallin, president of LegacyScapes in Groveland, Fla., began to rethink the company’s use of International 4300 and 4400 series trucks. Sallin…
Moving to mobile time sheets last year helped Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) in Tempe, Ariz., increase efficiency and go paperless. Logging paper time sheets was…
Doug McIntosh, owner of McIntosh Grounds Maintenance in Milan, Mich., was running out of space in his shop and considered upgrading to a larger one.…
