Close-Up Profiles Through the years, Ive been privileged to meet many individuals in our industry. From landscape contractors to dealers, distributors, and wholesale supply store owners, to presidents of manufacturing companies...   More

Close-Up Profiles Herb King knows all about dreams both having them, and chasing them. Though he is now owner and CEO of the company his father started back in the 1960s, he doesnt expect any of his own children to take the helm when he retires.    More

Close-Up Profiles My favorite moment in my interview with John Crowson was when I asked him what he thought made him a good leader.    More

Close-Up Profiles John Gibson couldnt have imagined, when he graduated from high school, that he would have a career in the green industry. It was beyond my wildest imagination, he said.   More

Close-Up Profiles Landon Reeve loves plants. Always has. That?s a continual thread that runs through his life, despite the challenges he has undertaken. While in high school, he had a part-time summer job working in a perennial wholesale nursery.    More

Close-Up Profiles Larry DeWitt built a $30 million a year landscape fabric manufacturing company from the ground up. One could say he was lucky, or perhaps he was in the right place at the right time, but Ive known him for more than 20 years, and I can tell you it wasnt luck; it was his passion.   More

Close-Up Profiles One of the fastest growing privately held companies in the landscape industry, Girard Environmental Services in Orlando, Florida, generates more than eighteen million dollars in annual revenue.   More

Close-Up Profiles Ever since he could remember, Willis Dane has been a tinkerer. Born and raised in North Central Illinois, Dane can remember when,as a young boy of 11 or 12, he built a little scow, dragged it down to the Vermillion River where he and his friends enjoyed many trips rowing up and down the river.   More

Close-Up Profiles What makes Susan Thayer unique is that she is a free spirit and an independent thinker. She has a knack for reading people, and has a gut feeling for business.   More

Close-Up Profiles You could say Jerry Pate has been in the green industry every since he was a teen-ager. As is so typical of many kids his age, when he was growing up, he took odd jobs to earn spending money while going to high school.    More