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Irrigation audits help reduce customer costs, improve water efficiency
Irrigation audits give landscapers a new tool to reduce customer costs and use water more efficiently. For many business owners, audits are about as popular as broadleaf weeds on a new lawn. But there’s one kind of audit that landscapers who install irrigation systems should embrace: irrigation audits, which can lower their customers’ water bills, promote sustainable water-management practices while developing “green” credibility and help their companies stand out among competitors.
February 13, 2013
Business
Lack of Impatiens a Blow to Gardeners
For decades, it’s been a rite of spring. You hop in the car, head for the nearest garden center and load up on impatiens, the best-selling, candy-colored annuals that thrive in shade, mound up like half a beach ball, and bloom their heads off till frost, asking little in return.
February 12, 2013
Business
Bayer CropScience Introduces Bayer Specticle G
Environmental Science, a division of Bayer CropScience LP, has launched Bayer Specticle G – a versatile, pre-emergent herbicide that provides green industry professionals up to six months of broad-spectrum weed control for use in landscapes, including mulched areas and around ornamentals, and in warm-season turf.
February 12, 2013
Business
Landscaper of the Year finalist featured at Garden Show
The Ohio Valley Group, one of TLC’s Landscaper of the Year finalists from 2009, was recently featured at The Great Big Home & Garden Show at the IX Center.
February 12, 2013
Business
Survey Shows Increase in Construction Equipment Sales for 2013
Those who are involved in the construction equipment industry could start seeing positive numbers in the near future.
February 11, 2013
Business
Summoning Nature for Healing
The Crown Sky Garden, on the 11th floor of the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, is a 5,000-square-foot area for play and contemplation and the second healing garden completed last year by Mikyoung Kim. Ms. Kim, a 44-year-old landscape architect, is regarded as an artful weaver of nature and sculpture. The Sky Garden features a bamboo grove and interactive furniture that emits sounds when an embedded brass hand is touched with a live one.
February 11, 2013
Business
Stihl Sponsors Scholarship for State Park Employees
STIHL Inc. sponsored the National Association of State Park Directors Leadership School at the Oglebay National Training Center in West Virginia.
February 11, 2013
Business
How to avoid tax audits
By now, you should have your W-2 forms in hand and be starting to work on your taxes. As a business owner, that can bring on some extra hurdles and things to avoid as we inch closer to the April 15 deadline.
February 11, 2013
Business
Business Survey Shows Uncertainy for Profession
A steadier future for hiring has emerged for the landscape architecture profession, according to the American Society of Landscape Architects’ fourth quarter 2012 Business Quarterly survey. However, a slight drop in fourth-quarter billable hours shows that some uncertainty still haunts firms.
February 8, 2013
Business
Plant Choices: It’s All About Location
Unwelcome species such as dandelions and grassburs are not the only plants relegated to weed status in the landscape. The definition of a weed is any plant that is out of place. Because you don’t want a lawn full of weeds, choosing the right plant and establishing it in the right location is critical to the long-term success of your landscape.
February 8, 2013
Business
DayLube NanoCeramic Grease Extends Maintenance Intervals
New DayLube high performance nano-ceramic grease maintains its original viscosity and adhesion even after 100,000 production strokes – significantly extending service intervals for all types of production equipment.
February 8, 2013
Business
The 10 Best U.S. Cities for Urban Forests
Joni Mitchell sang about “paving paradise” in the 1970s, but some U.S. cities like Portland, Ore., are now making parks from parking lots and creating urban forests that cut pollution and save energy. Which are the nation’s 10 best for greenery?
February 7, 2013
Business
John Deere Releases E-Series Skid Steer, CTL Line
John Deere has released its new E-Series line of skid steer loaders and compact track loaders. The new line will feature five skid steer models and four compact track loaders with enhancements and improvements from the input of customers.
February 7, 2013
Business
Toss the Tool
Landscape pros are making sport out of throwing away their sprinkler adjustment tools with Rain Bird’s “Toss the Tool” online campaign. The campaign is urging users to get rid of nozzles that need adjustment tools and switch to Rain Bird’s new R-VAN Adjustable Rotary Nozzles, the world’s first fully hand-adjustable rotary nozzles.
February 7, 2013
Business
Controlled-Release Fertilizer
The J. R. Simplot Company has created a new dual-reactive, layered polyurethane fertilizer coating. The Gal-XeONE, in controlled-release fertilizers, can assure the predictable release of nutrients in all climatic conditions for a three, six, nine and 12-month timeframe.
February 6, 2013
Business
Moving a Six-Story-Tall Tree
Developer Asi Cymbal thinks his proposed residential project here is just what this city needs to liven up a derelict stretch of its riverfront downtown. The futuristic, three-tower complex would include about 1,000 rental units, three restaurants and a marina.
February 6, 2013
Business
Crystal Green Receives State Phosphorus Exemptions
As the trend toward restricting the use of phosphorus-containing fertilizers on turfgrass continues, Crystal Green has been granted phosphorus exemptions in Michigan, Wisconsin and Virginia.
February 6, 2013
Business
How To Build A Thriving Business
Sean Nutter, owner of Greenday Creations Inc. (GCI) in Miami, Florida, and one of our Landscaper of the Year finalists, offers how he has created a thriving business in a down economy. Nutter’s 5 Tips for Success 1. Have it in your contract. “There’s no such thing as a typical contract, so you need to […]
February 6, 2013
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