PLANET plans new events for GIC
The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET), Herndon, Va., will introduce new types of education and events at its annual Green Industry Conference (GIC) held in conjunction with GIE+EXPO in Louisville,...
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Ball Seed Field Day and Landscape Day slated for July 25
The 2014 Ball Seed Field day is scheduled for July 25 in West Chicago, Ill. Photo: Ball Seed Ball Seed customers, retailers and landscape business owners can visit The Gardens at Ball in West Chicago,...
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1-Minute Mentor: John Kavanaugh
John Kavanaugh Owner of Kavanaugh Landscaping & Irrigation, Ruston, La. Who’s your mentor? The gentleman I first went to work for, Fred Hoogland is my mentor. He’s elderly now. He’s not working,...
View ArticleInformation and accountability in the workplace
My partners and I gather the financial data from many of our clients nationwide, dump the information into a big cauldron, stir it around and run some interesting benchmarks to provide you a report...
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Improve your landscape maintenance margins
Photo: Stuart Miles / Freedigitalphotos.net There’s hardly a contractor who’s not concerned with pricing challenges and the negative impact they have on gross margins. The competitive environment has...
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Green Industry generosity
Photo: adamr / Freedigitalphotos.net It’s 6 a.m. on Friday, June 20. I pour a cup of coffee and sit down at my kitchen counter to check my email on my smartphone like I do on all workdays. It’s...
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PLANET AEF promotes landscape industry careers
The Professional Landcare Network Academic Excellence Foundation (PLANET AEF) expanded its mission statement and joined a public awareness campaign to attract people into a career in the landscape and...
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NHLA names 2015-2016 Board of Directors
The National Hispanic Landscape Alliance (NHLA), the trade association for the professional development of Hispanics in the U.S. landscape industry, named its new Board of Directors for the 2015-2016...
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Live from GIE+EXPO 2015
LM is reporting live from GIE+EXPO in Louisville, Ky., from Oct. 21-23. The trade show includes product demonstrations, press conferences and educational sessions, as well as a 19-acre demonstration...
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Planet Community Stewardship Award Winner: Charity by design
Employees at Nemetschek Vectorworks organize an outing each quarter to clean up their designated road for the Adopt-A-Road project. Photo: Nemetschek Vectorworks For one architectural software firm,...
View ArticleJon Hardecopf, president and owner of Metro Greenscape, discusses business...
Jon Hardecopf, president and owner of MetroGreenscape in Charlotte, N.C., joined Landscape Management Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones to discuss business throughout 2020. Hardecopf spoke about how the...
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Seth’s Cut: Time to show off
Seth Jones It’s springtime, and I’m happy to kick the dust off the equipment in the garage. I finally fired up the lawn tractor over the weekend, and I couldn’t get enough of it. The expectations and...
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