Close-Up Profiles Noecker grew up in the Northeast. Born in New York City, she was a year old when her family moved to Weston, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. After completing high school...   More

Close-Up Profiles Burton S. Sperber learned the landscape business at an early age, working at a nursery in North Hollywood, California, after school. When the owner of the nursery passed away, Burt and his father bought the business for $700, and called it Valley- Crest Landscape.   More

Close-Up Profiles Horton grew up in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, where he attended Cal State University, Northridge. His major was accounting. Once in school, he realized that he needed to get a job to help pay for his tuition, and he found one with a landscape contractor.   More

Close-Up Profiles When Janet Reilly was a very young girl, if you asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, her answer would probably have been either a doctor or a teacher. However, neither of those were the career path she would eventually take.   More

Close-Up Profiles ROBERT VON BERNUTH IS no stranger to the Irrigation Association (IA) or the irrigation industry; he’s been around the industry in some way or another for many years.   More

Close-Up Profiles At the age of 51 Jody Shilan feels like he’s been in the landscape business all his life, certainly for the majority of it: 38 years. “I had a paper route up to the age of 13,” Shilan recalls, “and one of my friends was making money cutting lawns for his neighbors.   More

Close-Up Profiles In this business, certain words come together that `sing so well`, you wonder who first thought of them. Take, for instance: Landscape Management.    More

Close-Up Profiles If you`re in the military, one of the physical exercises you're trained to do is climb a thick rope with knots about every foot.    More

Close-Up Profiles TOM SUPER IS HIS NAME AND HE has made a super start in becoming a successful entrepreneur in the landscape business.   More

Close-Up Profiles Pond products and fish farming? Dave Ouwinga would be the first to admit that while he was growing up in the small town of Grant, Michigan    More