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How To Handle Change Orders on Design/Build Landscape Projects

You can’t foresee everything that might happen on a landscape installation project, and sometimes this can result in necessary change orders. Improving your design process can help eliminate some of these occurrences, but they can still happen from time to time. Sometimes it is because the issue at hand is something that could not be […]

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Order Now To Keep Your Syngenta Savings Going All Year

Sponsored Content With GreenTrustĀ® 365 from Syngenta, there are so many ways to maximize savings for your business. Spend at least $5,000 during the Early Order Period (EOP), Oct. 1 – Dec. 8, 2022, to start earning the best savings of the year – up to 26%. Purchases of on-fertilizer products made through May 31, […]

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Is Route Optimization Using Advanced GPS Tools the Answer to High Gas Prices?

Guest Content As fuel costs continue to rise, small businesses, including lawn care professionals, are feeling the pinch. With GPS tracking and routing software, it’s possible to optimize a business for peak performance while saving money at the same time. Indeed, new technologies like GPS are helpful tools for reducing fuel costs and keeping companies […]

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Level Up: Natural Concerns, Inc. Focuses on Growing Their People, Not Their Revenue

Our Level Up series shares the strategies that help landscape and lawn care companies get to the next level. Roland Harvey founded Natural Concerns, Inc., based in Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, in 1989 with the desire to provide quality landscaping services utilizing a natural approach. He had worked for other landscape companies but decided to go […]

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Team Building: How to Develop a Diverse Workforce

This information came from a session during the 2022 ELEVATE conference and expo. Don’t miss the 2023 ELEVATE in Dallas on Sept. 10-13. Having a diverse workforce has many benefits, including having higher rates of productivity and performance and increased creativity and innovation. However, you might not know how to go about increasing the diversity […]

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NALP Members in the News: Sperber, SavATree, Davey Tree Expert Company and Ruppert Landscape Ā 

Read more about these NALP members and partners in the news. Sperber Landscape Companies Partners with Trautman Lawn & Landscape Company Sperber Landscape Companies has added Trautman Lawn & Landscape Company, based in Nampa, Idaho, to their portfolio of companies. This partnership expands Sperber’s service offerings throughout Idaho. The company was founded in 1988 by […]

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How To Reduce Change Order Frequency on Design/Build Projects

When you’re in the middle of installing a client’s landscape project, it can be a hassle when the customer decides to add on to the scope or make site changes to the job. Not only does it tend to throw off your scheduling, but it can create billing issues and additional paperwork. If this happens […]

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REPLAY: Engaging Employees to Solve the Labor Crisis with Mike Bogan

In this replay of the Growing in the Green Industry Podcast, hosts Miles Kuperus III, system architect at Include Software, Neal Glatt, managing partner of GrowTheBench, Brett Lemcke, VP of R.M. Landscape, and Luke Melograno, production coordinator at Mariani Landscape, talked to Mike Bogan, CEO of LandCare. Bogan graduated from Mississippi State University with a […]

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2022 Judges’ Award: Installing a Next-Generation Urban Campus

In midtown Atlanta, Georgia, is the three-acre headquarters of Norfolk Southern, which was created as a next-generation urban campus. The two office towers are unified by a five-story campus-style hub that serves as a destination for employees to work and socialize. Ruppert Landscape was brought on to help with the landscape installation by a general […]

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In Memoriam: Kevin Kehoe

Kevin Kehoe, founder of Aspire Software, passed away on Sept. 30, 2022, at the age of 67. He had been battling Stage 4 colorectal cancer since 2014. Kehoe was recently named the 2022 Lifetime Leadership Award recipient for his work mentoring numerous landscape professionals throughout his career. He earned a BA from the State University […]

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