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Business
New Generation, Ideas
Bobby Franz keeps Franz Nursery attuned to landscaping trends and ready for the future. One project quickly comes to mind when Bobby Franz is asked which best represents the capability of his company, Franz Nursery in Hamilton, Indiana.
November 21, 2012
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Business
Flair for Details
Ryan Youngblood sets high standards for design/ build and estate-maintenance projects that clients appreciate. Serving a roster of high-end residential landscaping clients is a tightrope walk. A good example, says Ryan Youngblood, are the owners of a multi-million-dollar, 6-acre, residential property he has maintained for three years.
September 20, 2012
The floating copper fire bowl adjacent an infinity edge pool dazzles guests in a setting often used for large garden parties.
Business
Adding holiday lighting service
During low snow years, even snow removal cash flow dries up. But Christmas is something you can always count on: It comes every year at the same time.
August 1, 2012
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Business
Artistic Enthusiasm
With nature as his canvas, Sean Nutter has determination, passion and design savvy on his landscaping palette. Sean Nutter has determination, passion and design savvy on his landscaping palette. With nature as his canvas. Surrounded by swaying palm trees and a salt-laced breeze, Sean Nutter creates landscape masterpieces with strokes of opulence and splashes of floral color. “With my work, I’m creating an emotion for the client when they look at their property,” he says. “Whether it is excitement or feeling relaxed listening to a water feature, I make people want to live outside.”
April 2, 2012
Business
How to: Laying a bluestone patio
Although Pennsylvania Blue Stone is quarried from only a small area in the northeast of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, it’s used by contractors across the country in projects from the stairways of grand estates to simple but enduring patios.
March 8, 2012
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Business
Confident Vision
Nikos Phelps builds his business with add-on services and an eye for opportunity. Rain fell lightly but insistently the late October day Nikos Phelps gave a walking tour of his business, Utopian Landscapes, on a former 8-acre nursery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that had slipped into disrepair before he purchased it a year earlier.
March 2, 2012
Business
Hardscaping Certification Gives Landscapers Competitive Edge
For landscaper Bobby Franz, hardscaping certification and business success fit together as snugly as interlocking pavers. “Getting certified solidified me as a professional,” says Franz, the owner of Franz Nursery in Hamilton, Indiana, and a finalist in Total Landscape Care’s 2012 Landscaper of the Year contest. “It provides us with a competitive advantage … and conveys to customers that we’re serious about hardscaping.”
February 28, 2012
Business
New Holland names 2011 Extreme Dream winner
New Holland Construction named Brandon Vaughan, of Toms Creek Nursery and Landscaping in Denton, North Carolina, as the winner of the “2011 Extreme Dream Contest.” Vaughan won a New Holland L218 skid steer loader worth more than $35,000 during the 2011 GIE+EXPO. The contest showcased the best landscape design/build projects of the year across the […]
November 2, 2011
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Business
Blending Talent with Experience
William Dickerson’s early work as a landscaper and natural creativity set him on a course for success.
September 1, 2011
Compact equipment
Hardscaping Trends Up
Products and demand grow for landscapers.
May 5, 2011
Design-Build
Patio Takes the Plunge
Hardscaping is the star of this Fremont, Indiana lake house’s outdoor living space, containing more than 120 tons of related materials. The retaining walls are a single row of natural glacial boulders that landscaper Tina Etter from Millgrove Landscaping hand selected from various pits in her area.
December 6, 2010
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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