tlcstaff (TLC)BusinessThe Place of Forsyth County receives $5K mowerOn March 12, The Place of Forsyth County, a nonprofit that helps families with emergency basic needs during difficult times, received a donation to remember. Terry Nixon of Terry’s Tool and Equipment Rental, 1815 Dahlonega Highway in Cumming, donated a $5,000 Zeon Mower to The Place, which was formed in 1975.April 4, 2013BusinessHydroPoint Announces Distribution Partnership with Ewing IrrigationHydroPoint Data Systems has named Ewing Irrigation as the preferred distribution partner for WeatherTRAK smart irrigation controllers, central control systems and irrigation accessories in Texas, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.April 3, 2013BusinessDead lawns, be gone! But are they dead?If your front lawn looked as dead as a dodo’s door-nail last fall, that doesn’t make it so. There is still a decent chance that with a double dose of water and a dollop of lovin’, the deadest-looking lawn in this drought-dinged country can dramatically rise from the dead this spring.April 3, 2013BusinessHeads Up Landscape Contractors Welcomes Student InternsHeads Up Landscape Contractors has hired 14 student interns from five different colleges for 12 weeks of on the job experience. These students are studying business, landscape design, landscape management, horticulture and other disciplines.April 3, 2013BusinessGoogle Engineers Develop Remote Controlled Irrigation SystemLeverage the power of Android, Arduino, and the internet to build a home irrigation system that can be controlled from your smartphone. A couple of the engineers at Google, J.J Barrons and Joe Fernandez, have put together a method for controlling a home lawn or garden irrigation systemusing Android, Arduino, Python, Dart and the Google App Engine, and they’ve opensourced it, so you can build your own.April 2, 2013BusinessTree Donation to Revitalize New OrleansResource Environmental Solutions, founded in Baton Rouge, a national ecological restoration company, with operations in Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, is donating 2,500 trees throughout Louisiana including Orleans and surrounding parishes, announced CEO Elliott Bouillion.April 2, 2013BusinessVermeer Introduces Pedestrian TrencherVermeer has introduced a new model into its popular pedestrian trencher product line. The RTX250 is a rubber-tracked, steerable pedestrian trencher that is designed for the needs of rental businesses and utility contractors.April 2, 2013BusinessBuilt by AssociationSavvy landscapers interested in taking their businesses to the next level realize there’s strength in numbers. For the cost of what you probably spend on take-out coffee every year, you could gain a trusted business partner that brings to the table a range of benefits: continuing education and professional certification programs, access to hundreds of business peers eager to share knowledge and advice, a marketing edge over competitors and valuable information about trends and legislation that affect your business.April 2, 2013BusinessA Boston Palace Where Greenery Ties Old to NewBefore Isabella Stewart Gardner died, in 1924, she made it clear that the permanent collection in the Venetian palace she had built along scenic swampland here was never to be significantly altered. With the exception of the 13 works of art removed by thieves in the 1990s, this has been the case.April 1, 2013HomeNew GalleryFind hardscape project ideas and see what other landscapers from across the country are doing in our photo gallery.April 1, 2013Previous PagePage 39 of 341Next PageTop StoriesBusinessTotal Landscape Care's coverage moving to EquipmentWorld.comOn Oct. 1, Fusable will cease production of Total Landscape Care as a stand-alone website and newsletter and will migrate the brand’s existing coverage of the landscaping industry to sister brand Equipment World.HomeJohn Deere refines Z700 ZTrak Mower lineupHomeKress expands autonomous mowing lineup with new 60-inch VoyagerHomeThe TurfMutt Foundation’s signature events set for Equip Expo 2026HomeVanquish vegetation: Brush cutters for skid steers and compact track loaders
