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Clippings and yard waste everywhere, but no place to dump them

Aug. 21 2018

Former Nebraska state legislators are leading the charge to raise funds to complete a project at the state Capitol Building in Lincoln. According to an article in the Lincoln Journal Star, the s

American homeowners are competitive with each other when it comes to their front yards

Aug. 21 2018

Shutterstock It hurts to be a landscape maintenance contractor in Chico, California right now, according to a story in Chico News & Review. For instance, Ernie Cox, owner of Chico Landscape

California's trees are in trouble

Aug. 21 2018

Shutterstock American homeowners — four out of every ten of them, anyway, or 38 percent — strive to make their yards the best ones on the block, according to a story published in the New ...
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Pennsylvania municipalities aren’t sheepish about lawn maintenance

Aug. 15 2018

Western pine beetleDarren Blackford, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org California’s trees are in trouble. Even though the drought has been declared officially over for some time, it’s ha

Memphis lawn care business owner reportedly stabbed by employee

Aug. 13 2018

As a way to save manpower and be more sustainable, the Philadelphia suburb of Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania, has been employing a few dozen Katahdin sheep to help maintain rocky storm water b

Landscaper threatened over stray grass clippings

Aug. 13 2018

A Memphis lawn care business owner was stabbed outside home last week, allegedly by one of his own employees. Sixty-four year old Harold McGhee was hospitalized after a new hire reportedly trie

Volunteers restore a downtown’s greenery

Aug. 9 2018

Shutterstock A man was arraigned in Lawrence, Massachusetts on gun charges, including assault with a dangerous weapon, after allegedly threatening a landscaper. What did the landscaper do t

Tree trimmer killed after wasp attack causes fall

Aug. 8 2018

They’ve done it before, and they’re doing it again: volunteers in Vallejo, California are filling neglected street planters with greenery. This time, they hope the plantings will last. According ...
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Woman trades desk job for tree care career

Aug. 7 2018

Shutterstock A tree trimmer in Jacksonville Beach, Florida died after disturbing a wasp nest. It wasn’t the wasps’ stings that caused his death, but the fall from the ladder he was on, accord ...
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Snoop Dogg sues landscape contractor over alleged botched home remodel

Aug. 2 2018

Shutterstock A Pinewood, North Carolina woman used to have a job that involved sitting at a desk all day. She hated it, so she traded it for sitting in a harness rig working for Heartwood Tree

Alabama landscaper completes 50 States 50 Lawns tour

July 31 2018

Rapper-actor-producer-entrepreneur Snoop Dogg is suing PDQ Enterprises, a landscape construction business, alleging that the company performed substandard work at his Diamond Bar, California mansion

Landscape project includes 6,000 square feet of artificial turf

July 27 2018

Raising Men Lawn Care Service Founder Rodney Smith Jr. has completed his second 50 States, 50 Lawns Tour. Since May 17, Rodney has driven across the U.S., mowing nearly 130 lawns for the elderl

Memorial to Salem witch trial victims in bad condition

July 27 2018

Forever Greens, Livermore, California, recently installed 6,000 square feet of Everglade Fescue Pro, an artificial turf produced by Synthetic Grass Warehouse, Anaheim, California, at a Bay Area

Arborjet donates treatment to save 50 ash trees in old cemetery

July 26 2018

They should have listened to the landscape architect. The Salem Witch Trials memorial at Proctor's Ledge in Salem, Massachusetts has been open slightly less than a year, but that was enough ti

New Jersey home wins Green Leaf Award for landscaping

July 23 2018

Emerald ash borerShutterstock The inexorable march of the Emerald Ash Borer has reached Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Now, it's a race against time to save the area’s ash trees, including t

Ohio landscaping contractor arrested on multiple charges

July 23 2018

Team Members Erin Ecklof and Keith Kinsey of Kiely Home accepting the first Green Leaf Award from the Little Silver Environmental Commission.Kiely Home, a residential home builder located in Monmouth

What's on the Outside Matters

July 18 2018

A Parma, Ohio, landscape contractor was arrested for contracting with homeowners for patio and landscaping work but never finishing the jobs. The incidents reportedly happened in Twinsburg, Ohio in 20

Waterscapes & Outdoor Living

July 18 2018

The real estate market in many U.S. cities is red-hot, with prices at an all-time high. Plenty of people are cashing in, putting their homes up for sale while the selling’s good. Whatever the reason ...
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Landscape business owner gives back to his community in the form of jokes