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Protect Tree Health By Planting For Diversity

By planting a variety of trees, you decrease the risk of pests/diseases sweeping through landscapes causing widespread tree damage or death.

Turf August 2023 Issue

The Turf August 2023 issue provides the knowledge and tools landscapers need to create more resilient landscapes in the face of today's extreme weather.

Creating Resilient Landscapes

Ten months after Hurricane Ian hit Southwest Florida, what’s changing in landscape design? Lessons in creating resilient landscapes in the face of extreme weather.

Are You Planting Invasives? Here’s Some Alternatives

Many common landscaping plants can be harmful invasives. Here’s what to avoid—and native alternatives.

Best Selling Landscape Plants & Trees From GoMaterials

In 2022, GoMaterials helped source thousands of plants and trees for hundreds of landscaping projects. Here's the favorites.

Purdue’s Plant Doctor Helps Identify, Diagnose, & Report Pests

  Now there’s a new tool to help diagnose landscape plant problems. The Purdue Plant Doctor website, co-created by Purdue University professors Cliff Sadof and Janna Beckerman, aids in diagnosing and managing thousands of plant health problems (insect, disease, and other biotic or abiotic conditions) on over 250 species of ...

More Resilient Species Is Now New National Christmas Tree

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Even the National Park Service is picking more resilient trees for its installations these days. Ahead of the holiday season, the National Park Service (NPS) planted a new National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse in President’s Park. The new tree, a 27′ white fir (Abies Concolor) from Middleburg, PA was ...

NYC’s Ghost Forest Speaks To Ecosystem Restoration

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There’s just one month left to view a towering grove of spectral cedar trees in New York City’s Madison Square Park, whose bare trunks and spindly branches speak not only to the Halloween season but to the ravaging effects of climate change on woodlands. Ghost Forest, an art installation by ...

Late Summer Tree Care

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Late summer is a good time to look for potential problems in your customers’ landscapes. Early leaf color changes or drop, galls on external tree tissues, and caterpillar webs are three of the possible things that may be affecting your customers’ trees and shrubs. But before you start up the ...

My Landscape: Turf, Trees Integral To Office Park

Gothic Landscape
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Pathline Park is a 42-acre office park designed to maintain a light environmental footprint. Gothic Landscape, a commercial landscaping company based in Valencia, CA, provides service to this property owned by Irvine Company. Through careful maintenance of turf and trees, Gothic delivers on the ...
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