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Tackling Tiny Lots: Designing with Installation and Maintenance in Mind

When you’re designing an aesthetically pleasing and functional space for clients with a small landscape, it’s critical to consider the installation and maintenance of the project as well. ā€œWe can’t design something that we aren’t able to install,ā€ says Rebecca Jacobson, vice president of sales and marketing for Santa Rita Landscaping, based in Tucson, Arizona. […]

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Making Every Inch Count: Design Techniques for Crafting Beautiful Small Yards

It’s common for clients to have an extensive wish list when they’re thinking about the backyard of their dreams. While it’s easy to include all of these elements on a larger property, this can be much trickier when working within a smaller footprint. ā€œIt’s very human of us to want everything and the kitchen sink,ā€ […]

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Preventing Breakdowns: The ROI of Preventative Maintenance Software

Preventive maintenance is key to improving your overall efficiency and uptime. However, if you’re still using pencil and paper to track your equipment’s maintenance needs, you can be missing out on developing a true competitive advantage. Instead, utilizing fleet management software can help you avoid increased costs and lost revenue.   ā€œIf you place equipment […]

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Gain Industry Insights with Sample Landscape Production Rates

Do you know if your crews are performing above or below average when it comes to completing various tasks in the landscape? You can now access key benchmarks across core services such as landscape maintenance, irrigation, hardscaping and snow removal with NALP’s Sample Landscape Production Rate publication. ā€œIf you don’t have accurate production rates, you […]

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Diving Into Pool Projects: When to Subcontract Versus Build In-House

Pools are a nuanced feature of landscape projects that call for a particular set of skills. If you want to incorporate them into your designs, you’ll have to decide whether you want to subcontract the work or do it in-house. Both routes come with their own pluses and minuses, and which is a better fit […]

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Tactics to Elevate Your Landscape Lighting Design

For years, landscape lighting has been more of an afterthought than an essential element to customers’ landscape projects. However, more landscape companies are including it as a standard feature, allowing them to create a more cohesive design that is stunning both day and night. ā€œFor us personally, we automatically include it in every single design […]

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Avoid These Common Missteps with Landscape Lighting

Gone are the days when landscape lighting was simply a nice addition. Now it has become as necessary as irrigation. ā€œLandscape lighting not only increases home security and value, but it allows our clients to view their landscape in a whole new way, using varying lighting colors and techniques to create depth, breadth and a […]

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Got a Pain Point? There’s a Pub for That!

There are a million different headaches that come with running a business, but you don’t always have to reinvent the wheel to solve some of your problems. Sometimes, all you need to do is take a look in some of NALP’s books. ā€œOur publications are crafted by industry experts and trusted by landscape professionals nationwide, […]

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Technically Speaking: Conducting Tree Risk Assessments

Trees can be beautiful additions to any landscape, but it’s essential to conduct tree risk assessments on a regular basis to ensure that these assets don’t become a liability at some point. Hazards trees pose include damaging property and potentially injuring or killing nearby pedestrians. ā€œIt’s good for preventing property damage or injury, identifying any […]

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Separating Fear from Fact: The Real Impact of Spotted Lanternfly on Your Clients’ Trees

While the emerald ash borer poses a serious threat to ash trees, clients often wrongly assume the spotted lanternfly (SLF) is another destructive insect on their property. If you receive complaints about this particular bug, work to determine the true reason the customer is concerned about them being on the property before acting. Some may […]

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