April 2023 - Page 3 of 4 - The Edge from the National Association of Landscape Professionals

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Month: April 2023

RISE Survey: 95% of Consumers Value Well-Maintained Yards

April is National Lawn Care Month, and a recent survey, conducted by Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE) in collaboration with the National Association of Landscape Professionals, found majority of respondents value their yards and keeping them well-maintained. The survey respondents were 1,004 U.S. adults, 18+, who live in a home or residence with […]

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Safety Culture: Minimize Distracted Driving

As a lawn or landscape company, you have crews leaving your headquarters every day driving to various jobsites. While simply towing a trailer has its own set of risks, distracted driving increases the likelihood of an accident occurring. ā€œA distracted driver is much more likely to be involved in an accident than one who is […]

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Landscapes of the Month: Caring for a Prestigious College Campus

Located near the heart of the American federal government in Washington, D.C., about five minutes from Union Station and a twelve-minute walk from capitol hill sits the Georgetown Law Center. The client’s intent for this project was to maintain a landscape that reflects the history and prestige of this institution while balancing the need for […]

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Level Up: Di Stefano Landscaping’s Talented Team Drives Their Success

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Growing up working on his family’s Christmas tree farm and nursery, Chris di Stefano was instilled with a strong work ethic and a love for the outdoors at an early age. While he knew he didn’t […]

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Team Building: Motivating Your Sales Team with Commission

If your landscape company has decided to go with the salary plus commission pay structure, there are still a lot of variables to decide for your team. Some considerations include when commissions are paid out, how the commission is handled if a project goes over budget and if any additional bonuses should be awarded. How […]

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Caring for Pollinator Habitats in the Landscape

If your client has a pollinator garden, prairie or other habitat installed for pollinators on their property, they may think the natural-looking area calls for no maintenance at all. However, competition from weeds and invasive species can degrade these habitats if not properly maintained. A functional pollinator habitat has features including: Pollinators need both nectar […]

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NALP Members in the News: McHale Landscape Design, Mariani Landscape, ECHO, Ruppert Landscape and RC Mowers

Read more about these NALP members and partners in the news. McHale Landscape Design Acquires Dalton Ventures McHale Landscape Design has recently acquired Dalton Ventures, a residential estate garden care firm in Middletown, Maryland. This is the company’s third acquisition in five years. All Dalton Venture employees and owners will join McHale Landscape Design. The […]

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Chart Your Own Path with Brooke Garcia: Season 3: Episode 46 of Growing in the Green Industry Podcast

In season 3, episode 46 of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus at Include Software, Neal Glatt with GrowTheBench and Brett Lemcke with R.M. Landscape talk to Brooke Garcia, garden director with Magnolia in Waco, Texas. Ā Ā Ā  Upon graduating from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science in horticulture and […]

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Lawn Care: Solutions for Snow Mold

Spring is well underway and as the snow melts, it may reveal an unwelcome surprise on your customer’s lawn: snow mold. Snow mold appears as nearly circular patches with the turf inside the circle appearing white, gray or pink and matted together. It is caused by gray snow mold or pink snow mold, with the […]

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Team Building: Strengthening Existing Relationships with Colleges and Universities

Do you already have connections with your local colleges but want to enhance those partnerships? Several faculty members in landscape-related programs share how they’d prefer landscape companies to work with them. Like any other relationship, it’s best to really get to know faculty members before sending them all your summer job openings. If they don’t […]

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