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Business

[Infographic] How Much Water Are You Wasting?

Saving water while keep lawns looking green through the summer is not as hard as landscapers might think. Whether it’s using the proper products or watering at the correct time, landscapers can do a lot to help cut down on client’s water bills and wasted water.

June 9, 2014

Business

Best practices, techniques for summer watering

When it comes to saving water this summer, an important place for landscapers to start is learning the proper watering techniques.

June 3, 2014

Lawn maintenance

10 tips for summer irrigation

With hot summers comes an unquenchable thirst, especially when you’re talking about lawn care. However, quenching that thirst is not as easy as scheduling a smart irrigation system once or flipping on the sprinkler switch.

May 29, 2014

Design-Build

Start Thinking About Fire-Wise Landscaping Now

Around the end of summer and beginning of fall, wild fires start popping up across the country and becoming widespread.

May 15, 2014

Business

Miami Realtors Name Top Five Landscaping Trends for 2014

Landscapers know a great deal about landscaping, but it can never hurt to listen to outside resources.

April 7, 2014

Business

Celebrate National Lawn Care Month

April is here, which means it is officially National Lawn Care Month. To help celebrate, PLANET, the Professional Landcare Network, has provided a few resources, facts and information to help landscape professionals this season.

April 3, 2014

Business

Tips for bringing lawns back to life

Spring is here. To help bring lawns back to life after a long winter, The Grounds Guys have provided a few additional tips for spring lawn care.

March 17, 2014

Business

What Clients Want in 2014

As landscapers begin to start planning and designing outdoor living areas for clients in the spring, they should be aware of the top outdoor living trends for 2014.

March 17, 2014

Business

Tips to Help Trees Survive Drought

Drought can take a toll on any landscape across the country, but plants can be resilient with a little help.

March 6, 2014

Business

Top Outdoor Design Trends for 2014

Residential landscapes designed for entertaining and relaxing are still a popular trend through 2014, according to the 2014 Residential Landscape Architecture Trends Survey.

March 3, 2014

Lawn maintenance

Taking charge of chinch bugs

Give a chinch an inch, and they’ll take a yard. This old southern saying about chinch bugs speaks to the destructive nature of these pests that threaten turf in the South and Southeast. Even though chinch bugs are found throughout the United States, it’s the southern chinch bug that has notoriously evaded control by developing resistance to some of the most commonly used insecticides.

February 18, 2014

Design-Build

Can This Problem Be Fixed?

One photo on Facebook caught my attention recently. The Weed Man Lawn Care in Minneapolis, Minnesota posted a photo of snowplow damage in one community.

January 30, 2014