A GOOD BUSINESSMAN IS ALWAYS LOOKing for ways to make his business even better. Sometimes, this can mean expensive or risky investments, acquiring new skills, or offering new products and services.

It’s easy to take a well-designed landscape for granted. When we’re looking at a landscape, we shouldn’t be focusing on the placement of the sprinkler heads or the presence of a backflow prevention device. Instead, we should be commenting on how green, lush and beautiful the landscape is. Everything that helps keep it that way should be completely forgotten.

In life, big problems generally require big changes and change isn’t something our species tends to embrace easily. In life, big problems generally require big changes and change isn’t something our species tends to embrace easily. But life’s problems often generate an exci

Ok. Stay calm. Let’s see how we’re going to handle this. A number of questions enter my mind as I think to myself, who are these people? How did they find me?

This winter, as you sit inside in your toasty living room in front of the fire, your mind may be far from the irrigation systems you’re responsible for.

Our nation’s landscapes are growing smarter and greener using less water. For years, water efficiency has played a key role in landscape design in the desert southwest and other dry climates of the United States. Our nation’s landscapes are growing smarter and greener using less water. For years, water efficiency has played a key role in landscape design in the desert southwest and oth

Water conservation should be profitable for you and your customers. I could, and maybe should, end the article with just this statement. Yes, it seems obvious enough, but implementing such a philosophy is complicated.

It begins with a bang, and that’s not a good thing. Where it ends could be with damaged pipes, a leaking irrigation system, countless headaches, and thousands of dollars worth of preventable repairs.

No matter where you live, water conservation is a hot issue. Increased population and land development have put pressure on the water supply even in places where fresh water seems abundant.

When you were a kid, your mother probably told you to leave things the way you found them. You probably ignored her. But in the world of the landscape contractor, you couldn’t find better advice.