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Stories About the Pros

Changing The Game: Exploring Ethoscapes’s Meteoric Rise Through M&A and Organic Growth

If you hadn’t heard of the company Ethoscapes five years ago, that would be understandable, as the business was created in 2023. However, since then, they have soared into the spotlight with their rapid M&A and organic growth. In 2024, the business was the second-fastest growing company out of Landscape Management’s Top 150, with 203% […]

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Owner of Piedmont Landscape Management Recognized as Georgia’s Small Business Person of the Year

Small business owners demonstrate hard work, ingenuity and dedication daily. Often, they are striving to become industry leaders while facing failures and wins along the way. ā€œI believe it’s important to celebrate the wins,ā€ says Patrick Wells, president of Piedmont Landscape Management, based in Augusta, Georgia. ā€œToo often, we focus on the setbacks.ā€ As part […]

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From Burnout to Balance: Practices to Preserve Your Mental Health

Burnout can be a real threat to both your team and yourself if you are not taking care of your mental health. ā€œMental health is such a wide sweeping topic with a million and a half definitions – one for about every individual talking about it,ā€ says Brandon Sheppard, a Weed Man franchisor in the Mid-Atlantic. ā€œAt […]

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Effective Leadership: Habits to Cultivate and Those to Eliminate

As a leader, establishing effective routines can play a major role in your overall excellence as an organization. It takes discipline to both develop good habits and eliminate those that no longer serve you. Below are some of the habits that have positively impacted leaders in the landscape industry as well as practices they decided […]

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Earth Day Every Day: How Landscape Companies Are Leading With Sustainability Year-Round

Earth Day serves as the birth of the modern environmental movement. Prior to 1970, many Americans were oblivious to the threats a polluted environment posed to themselves and the planet as a whole. For more than half a century, this day has been celebrated as a time to conduct service projects or educate the public […]

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How NCLC Planted the Seeds of a Thriving Career for This Young Pro

In a world where many college graduates are struggling to find their first job due to a number of factors, this wasn’t an issue for Chris Graham, who started working for Designscapes Colorado, based in Centennial, Colorado, as a residential design associate in February this year. Graham graduated from Colorado State University in December 2024 […]

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The Year We Lost It All — And Found Our True Value

This article is written in an ā€œAs Told Toā€ format. Chris Lee is the president of EarthWorks, a $37 million full-service landscape management company, based in Lillian, Texas. 2015 was probably the worst year I have ever experienced as a business owner. It was also an eye-opening ordeal that helped us change for the better. It […]

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A Look Inside Green Lawn Fertilizing’s People-First Leadership Philosophy

For 21 years, Green Lawn Fertilizing, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, has held the leadership philosophy of putting their people first and it has been a major factor in their success. Founder/CEO Matt Jesson says he learned his people-first mindset from many individuals, including his parents, high school and college football coaches, and his previous […]

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Level Up: Blue Marble Landscape’s Strong Client Retention Drives Long-Term Success

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. At Blue Marble Landscape, based in Mesa, Arizona, large-scale HOAs are their bread and butter. Not only do they provide a wide range of services to this commercial property type, including landscape and turf management, water […]

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Faces of the Industry: Sierra Smith

From a young age, Sierra Smith was interested in construction. ā€œI had no idea how to really get into it, but I knew I wanted to create, I wanted to design, I wanted to build, and I had very little knowledge and exposure to it,ā€ Smith says. Her interests expanded into the landscape industry after […]

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