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Bad Boy Mowers Introduces UTV Series

Bad Boy Mowers is introducing its new Intimidator Series at the 2013 Louisville Farm and Machinery Show. The series features American-made utility vehicles with 1000cc Kohler diesel, 750cc Kohler gas and 48 Volt AC electric UTV built on a common solid-steel, all welded chassis with functional body styling. The series has a 1,700 pound payload as well a shift-on the fly four-wheel drive.

February 13, 2013

Xeriscape Can Include Plants From Every Continent

If the Cline Shale oil play is as big as Prudhoe Bay, water will become even dearer. Many more people will be moving here, wanting housing with some sort of attractive landscaping. The amount of water we have available for irrigating home landscapes will continue to shrink — some sort of public water restrictions will be in place forever.

February 13, 2013

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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Echo demonstrates new battery-powered landscaping equipment at 2026 Power-On-Athon outdoor event

Total Landscape Care's coverage moving to EquipmentWorld.com

On 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.

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John Deere refines Z700 ZTrak Mower lineup

Red and white zero-turn radius lawn mower displayed on green grass field with trees in background

Kress expands autonomous mowing lineup with new 60-inch Voyager

Two people in purple shirts holding a black and white dog at an equip 2025 event

The TurfMutt Foundation’s signature events set for Equip Expo 2026

Blue tracked skid steer loader clearing brush in autumn forest

Vanquish vegetation: Brush cutters for skid steers and compact track loaders

The Attachments Idea Book

Landscapers use a variety of attachments for doing everything from snow removal to jobsite cleanup, and regardless of how often they are used, every landscaper has a favorite attachment.

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