The Horticultural Research Institute, in collaboration with AmericanHort, established the Horticultural Industry Bee & Pollinator Stewardship Initiative in 2014. One of the primary goals of the Initiative is to identify and fund research that will help answer key science questions and fill gaps needed to inform, design and refine an industry stewardship program. The Initiative’s…
I’m one of the few that started from the onset. I worked at a garden center in high school, went straight into landscape architecture at Texas Tech, came out and went into business. That was a long time ago, like 1978. I owned my own deal for 18 years and sold in with the TruGreen…
The last thing a landscaping contractor wants to deal with during the height of the summer is an employee who doesn’t show up for work or who quits in the middle of a job. What’s a business owner to do when a labor issue arises in the midst of the industry’s busiest season? Here, the…
Larry Ryan, Ryan Lawn & Tree Mistake: I would not have gotten into Christmas lights. Too much risk and too little revenue when we are still producing revenue from other sources. Also, landscaping was an area we got into then out of. It is complicated and needs high detail people running it. We did not…
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – OmniScapes, a Columbus-based landscape contractor, has acquired LandOpt license rights for territory on the southwest side of the city. OmniScapes is now the region’s third network contractor, joining M&I Landscapes (northeast Columbus) and ProScape Lawn & Landscape Services (Marion). As part of LandOpt’s national network of landscape contractors, OmniScapes will incorporate…
COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. – Helena Chemical Company introduces On Deck, a new herbicide designed to maintain turf grass appearance with broadleaf weed control. On Deck controls tough broadleaf weeds in a variety of environmental conditions with a concentrated formulation of dicamba and 2,4-D acids. This “dual-acid” product features lower volatility and produces far less odor than…
GAINESVILLE, Ga. – The Fockele Garden Company designed and built a sensory garden at the Northeast Georgia Speech Center in Gainesville with features developed to stimulate the five senses: sound, smell, sight, touch and taste. The sensory garden gives the Speech Center another way of assisting students with speech and hearing developmental issues. “It’s…
Discounted attendee registration has opened for ASLA’s 2015 Annual Meeting & EXPO, to be held Nov. 6-9 in Chicago at McCormick Place. ASLA’s annual meeting is the largest gathering of landscape architecture professionals and students in the world. The 2015 meeting, themed “Perspectives,” highlights the comprehensive viewpoint that helps enable landscape architects to effectively…
Matt and Chris Noon have released a book designed to help LCOs, landscapers and other small business owners improve their phone sales. “Dialing for Dollars in a Digital World” – available on Amazon – is a part biography and part business book that outlines how business owners can use the traditional cold call to…
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Isuzu Commercial Truck of America announced that it has delivered the 500,000 Isuzu-built truck since the Isuzu brand entered the North American market in 1984. The N-Series truck was sold to Farmers Home Furniture in Dublin, Ga. The unit marked the 235th Isuzu truck the home-furnishings retailer has purchased. “We…
