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Business

Water-Saving Practices 40 Years Later

Landscaping has changed since the 1970s. Mike Curry, adjust professor with the horticulture department at the College of Dupage in Illinois told this to the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

May 6, 2013

Business

Heads Up Landscape Contractors Welcomes Student Interns

Heads 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, 2013

Design-Build

Students, Companies Excited About Future

The next generation of landscapers looks promising at PLANET’s Student Career Days. A room full of enthusiastic, cheering college students, industry experts and landscapers filled Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum on Auburn University’s campus Friday while I visited the Professional Landcare Network’s (PLANET) green industry career fair. Nearly 900 students from 71 colleges came together March 7-10 in […]

March 11, 2013

Business

Horticulture Therapy Takes Root in South Florida

Allspice and heirloom roses scent the garden where Robert Bornstein starts his work day at his home, tending plants meant not for show but for healing.

February 4, 2013

Business

PLANET Student Career Days

The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) has announced that registration is open for companies that want attend the largest recruiting event in the industry. PLANET Student Career Days (SCD)—The National Collegiate Landscape Competition—will take place March 7–10, 2013, at Auburn University, in Auburn, Ala.

January 10, 2013

Business

All-America Announces Winners

Announced in the fall of 2011, the AAS Display Gardens contest was created to celebrate the 80th anniversary of All-America Selections. By September of this year, 15 gardens met the rules and criteria, which included submitting photos, proof of publicity, overall description of the design and the achievement of that design.

November 7, 2012

Business

Love of Design & Knack for Construction

Ben Fotusky has a talent for design, construction and listening to customers. Given his size, he could have been a linebacker in high school, but back then, Ben Fotusky had more important things to do than sports. At age 14, he started working after school to get the money to buy a car, and when he got the car, he used it to get more work.

September 1, 2012

Lawn maintenance

Before the Fall

Winter weeds wither in the presence of two new pre-emergence herbicides. Treating weeds in the fall is one of the best things you can do for turfgrass. Targeting fall-germinating weeds like chickweed, henbit and annual bluegrass with a pre-emergence herbicide is the path of least resistance to a lush lawn next spring.

September 1, 2012

Business

Growing pains: Adding a nursery

It begins with a logical question: Why should I pay a wholesale distributor or plant broker for my landscape plants and trees when I could grow them myself? After all, most landscapers are good with plants, soil and maintenance, and already have a built-in customer base: their clients.

May 15, 2012

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

Business

Women in Landscaping

For some, gender is no longer an issue, but for others, challenges remain. The number of women working in landscaping has grown significantly in recent years, with women filling roles in every facet of the industry. Once a male-dominated profession, the playing field has been leveled as more women graduate with degrees in horticulture and landscape architecture and with technology advances.

March 1, 2011