Field work
Virginia-based J.W. Townsend specializes in wildflower meadows. In its first year of installing wildflower meadows, J.W. Townsend, a Charlottesville, Va.-based landscape company, only did one. But the...
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Indoor holiday decor
McHale begins planning its interior holiday decorating jobs in spring. McHale Landscape Design, based in Upper Marlboro, Md., promotes itself as a “property management” company. As such, its crews...
View ArticleScoring with ice rinks
Being based in Blasdell, N.Y., Mike Pace could have relied on snow plowing to make up for lost revenue in the off-season. But the owner and president of Pace Landscaping & Ice Rinks chose to veer...
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Learning to (yard)walk
When talking about horticulture, Tom Strangfeld is a natural at addressing crowds. The independent landscape designer and horticulturist has lectured at Boston’s Arnold Arboretum and appeared on “This...
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Un-stumped: Adding on tree services
Photo: Earthworks A decade ago Chris Lee went out on a limb when he decided to bring all tree services in-house for EarthWorks, located in Lillian, Texas. Now, garnering $75,000 in annual revenue from...
View ArticleYork Landscape takes a stab at verticutting
Among the greatest nemeses of a lush lawn is thatch, a layer of dead, organic debris that develops between the blades of grass and the soil surface. While contractors commonly turn to power raking to...
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Michigan firm ‘goes dark’ after Great Recession
Michael Bedell began offering dark property management in 2009. Michael Bedell made good on a bad situation when the Great Recession hit hard in Michigan, particularly his service area in Milford,...
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Add-on Biz: Cleaning up athletic turf
Pacheco Brothers Gardening staff determined it would be tough to get into artificial turf installation, but it found a niche in cleaning services. Photo: Pacheco Brothers Gardening A California firm...
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Landscape firm catches on to rainwater harvesting
A Pennsylvania contractor latches on to growing interest in rainwater harvesting. Marrazzo’s systems store rainwater underground in interlocking crates. Although Marrazzo’s North River Landscape,...
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Add-on Biz: Mailbox installations
Mailbox installations deliver a nice profit for a New Jersey landscape and fencing firm. High-end vinyl posts are one type of mailbox offering. Photo: Mayne. A spectacle of damaged mailboxes after a...
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Case Study: Into the woods
Before. Forestry mulching proves to be a beneficial offering for Visual Edge—and its clients. After posting a sign for “bush hogging,” Andrew Jenkins, president of Visual Edge, was flooded with calls....
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Leadership Advantage: Problem solving 101
Photo: ©istock.com/fatido If you have a business problem that’s going to take $1,000 to solve, shame on you if you cheap out and try to fix it for $900. You risk not solving it at all and having to...
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