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Design-Build: Page 200

Landscaping equipment
Remarkable Remotes
A sampling of new “smart” ways to more easily and precisely control irrigation systems.
September 10, 2010
Design-Build
Native Perennials Go Uptown
Native perennials are showing up in some surprising places these days, and for good reason. Landscape pros from San Francisco to Las Vegas and Chicago to New York are taking inspiration from their respective regions’ plant heritages to create public space designs that are wowing visitors and hardy and easy to maintain.
September 10, 2010
Lawn maintenance
Business bests: The benefits of subcontracting
You can’t be everything to everyone, but subcontracting will have clients believing otherwise. One client, one contact, one bill. The convenience of merging all outdoor maintenance has obvious appeal. To your client, this means making one phone call, whether she noticed a bagworm in a tree or wants to add a few more evergreens around the yard. To you, it means an opportunity to establish yourself as the sole resource for your client, creating customer loyalty while potentially developing more business for yourself.
September 10, 2010
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Transforming a Challenging Hillside Space
The California project makes use of the hillside and invites exploration of the garden. It also provides conversation areas for entertaining.
September 10, 2010
Design-Build
Design/build: Installing firepits
Tips and ideas for how to sell and install fire pits. From Hollywood celebrities to New Jersey plumbers, Americans are rediscovering a forgotten past time: warming their hands over a crackling fire in their backyards. And, landscape architects are making upwards of $2,000 to $50,000 installing them on $800 to $5,000 in materials and skilled labor.
September 9, 2010
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Lawn maintenance
Mowers Through History
Sheep power, manpower or gas power: Lawn mowers have evolved in many forms. Here’s a fun look at how mowing has evolved through the ages.
May 24, 2010
Lawn maintenance
Erosion control the natural way
There’s a ring of truth in the catch phrase “everything old is new again” when it comes to methods for controlling erosion in residential landscape settings. Thirty years ago, “sales were aimed at aesthetics,” says Ron Bowen, owner of Prairie Restorations, in Princeton, Minnesota, and usually incorporated turf or techniques adapted from the construction industry.
May 6, 2010
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Lawn maintenance
Best defense against turfgrass disease
Proper cultural practices are the best defense against turfgrass disease and the misapplication of fungicides. There are some 100 different diseases that affect turfgrass, each with a different method of cure and prevention. Trying to customize a program that defends against each specific disease would be impossible.
May 1, 2010
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Business
Selling & building water features
If you run a landscape business, you probably have the skills, crew, tools and creative ability to provide a range of water features for your clients. There are plenty of good reasons to do so — high profit margin, repeat business and relationship building with customers — while the few negatives link back to (avoidable) contractor error.
April 1, 2010
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Design-Build
Caring for Crape Myrtles
It seems for every vibrantly blooming and well maintained example of Lagerstroemia indica adorning properties from Texas to Savannah, there is one with its limbs hacked off by the uninformed.
February 2, 2010
Lawn maintenance
TLC Archives
2009 Issues …
December 7, 2009
Grounds maintenance
Chemical Care – September 2009
Has your regular herbicide been losing ground? Don’t automatically blame it on resistance. Chances are it has more to do with varying environ…
September 29, 2009
Business
Rain Bird names finalists of 2009 film competition
Rain Bird named six finalists in its 2009 Intelligent Use of Water film competition. The finalists will be featured guests at a special screen…
September 17, 2009
Business
Register now for the 2009 Irrigation Show
Online registration for the 2009 Irrigation Show is now available at www.irrigationshow.org. The show will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Co…
September 17, 2009
Business
Doosan Infracore receives award at global design show
Doosan Infracore received the Best of the Best Award at the 2009 Reddot Design Award Show for its futuristic concept excavator. More than 2,73…
September 17, 2009
Business
Drug and alcohol prevention Webinar scheduled for Sept. 22
CNA Risk Control is conducting a Webinar on drug and alcohol prevention on Tuesday, September 22 at 2 p.m. EST. The Webinar, free to PLANET me…
September 15, 2009
Business
Bulbrite re-launches Web site with new design
Bulbrite has re-launched its Web site, which has a new design to showcase the company’s line of light bulbs and lamping options. The site fea…
September 15, 2009
Business
Morbark launches incentive program for tree care equipment
Morbark is offering an incentive program for its tree care equipment to help customers and support dealers during the tough economic period. T…
September 3, 2009
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