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Current Issue

Landscape's Healing Powers

Laura DePrado's quest reaffirms industry's life-affirming value

By Carol Brzozowski
  When Laura DePrado planted a climbing yellow rose bush for a wrought iron arbor marking the entrance to a client's property, little did she know she had planted the seed for what would become her passion: horticultural therapy (HT). Her client's father, recently deceased, loved yellow roses. DePrado had no idea; she just had a feeling they would be of benefit there. Upon seeing them, the client was overjoyed.
  DePrado, owner of Final Touch Plantscaping, in Branchburg, N.J., immersed herself into learning all she could about the relationship between plants and people. ... (Read More...)

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BUNKER MENTALITY: Digging In

More golf courses are thinking renovations. Also, superintendents present their thought processes behind presentation and playability

By Patrick White and Larry Aylward
  From 2009 through about 2011, bunker renovation projects were everybody's favorite projects to postpone," says Bob McCormick, general agent for Klingstone, which distributes a patented a spray-on polyurethane bunker lining product.
  During that financial free fall, which included the Great Recession, many courses had to make decisions about which areas to focus on.
  "If you lose six of your greens due to disease, then you have to spend the money to fix them," McCormick notes. "But if people are complaining about your bunkers in that economic environment, ... (Read More...)

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Turf Health: Mowing 101

Mowing is about more than improving the appearance of your field; it's one of the most important cultural practices performed in turf maintenance.

By Pamela J. Sherratt and Dr. John R. Street
  Regardless of whether the turf is fertilized, irrigated or receives applications of control products, proper mowing practices are essential if a high-quality sward is to develop. Properly mowed turf will have fewer weed populations, better moisture stress tolerance and generally better quality than turf not properly mowed. Improper mowing can have damaging effects on the health and quality of the turf. Mowing also improves the aesthetics of a field.
  Mowing requires more time than all other operations involved in maintaining high-quality turf. That can place a burden ... (Read More...)

Current Issue

Clearing Things Up

Trends in land clearing and ROW work

By Patrick White
  In many cases, land clearing and right-of-way (ROW) work is done by companies that specialize in these niche areas. However, there are many general tree care companies that also handle these jobs, along with providing services to residential and other commercial customers. We talked to a few such tree care professionals to find out what trends and developments they're seeing in the land clearing and ROW segments of the industry.
  "We've seen a rather significant decrease in private development clearing," says Phillip Cambo, president of Northern Tree Service (www.northerntree.com) ... (Read More...)

Current Issue

Hot Spots

Outdoor kitchens can create new profit niches for landscape design professionals.


  The kitchen is home base - the literal central gathering hub where families and friends congregate to share good food and conversation. During busy days when parents are running off to work and children are going to school, the kitchen is the place where people connect and where plans are made. In fact, the average American spends 175 hours in their kitchen monthly and only 31 hours in their living room, according to KitchenLab research.
  Today, homeowners are trying to extend this useful space outdoors, creating more room for practical meeting and greeting. Enter outdoor ... (Read More...)

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How to Keep Your Farmstand Customers Coming Back for More

By Marcia Passos Duffy
  The dilemma for farmstands is no different from any other business: How do you get repeat customers?
  After all, it's easier, and more cost-effective, to keep customers coming back than it is to lure new customers in. Of course, you always want to keep new customers streaming into your farmstand, but once you get them there, how do you keep them coming back for more?
  According to agriculture marketing experts, it all comes down to customer service. The better you cater to your customers and make them feel like they are special, the more likely they are ... (Read More...)

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Key to Success

Motivating and rewarding employees requires work

By Patrick White
   While most of his fellow extension professionals focus on the science of growing-soils, diseases, crop varieties, etc.-Gregorio Billikopf, a farm adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension, specializes in an equally critical area that often gets too little attention: labor management.
  His work centers on two distinct topics that are nonetheless closely linked: worker productivity (how growers can motivate workers to get the most productivity from them) and interpersonal communication skills. "There's a huge connection between these areas," says ... (Read More...)

Current Issue

51 Years of Supplying the Demand

By scouring the globe for the best nursery equipment and hard goods-and making them available for American and Canadian nurserymen-Timm Enterprises Ltd. remains one of the most respected and successful wholesale supply operations in North America.

By Jason Bramwell
  Jan. 1, 1962, was a special New Year's Day for Otto Timm.
  After spending many years working at several nurseries in Europe and Canada, Timm opened his first business - a nursery supply company in Oakville, Ontario. Fifty-one years later, Timm Enterprises Ltd. is still one of the premier North American wholesalers of green industry supplies and equipment, from containers and burlap to cultivators and spading machines.
  "Those of us who work on the production of nursery plants are so fortunate to have a reputable, highly respected, family business that ... (Read More...)

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