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Turf Design-Build: February 2023

From estimating strategies to pool construction to heavy equipment, Turf's Design-Build February 2023 section is worth diving into!

Evergreen Enchantment In A Colorado Landscape

Four-season beauty at a rustic mountain home. There’s a famous quote attributed to Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” The same can be said for landscapes and landscape design. As any Green Industry professional ...

Get Equipped: Design-Build Equipment, Part 2

Take a look at this assortment of design-build equipment that can improve and add value to your professional lawn care and landscaping services. (This is the second of a two-part feature. Click here to view Part 1.) Belgard Artforms Artforms is the hardscape industry’s first completely finished modular concrete panel ...

Get Equipped: Design-Build Equipment, Part 1

Take a look at this assortment of design-build equipment that can improve and add value to your professional lawn care and landscaping services. (This is the first of a two-part feature. Click here to view Part 2.) Excavator Drum Mulcher Pro X From Diamond Mowers The Excavator Drum Mulcher Pro ...

Project Profile: A Streamside Farmhouse

Evoking a rural countryside in a Denver neighborhood. It seemingly appears off the pages of a fairy tale book. A charming stone farmhouse sits surrounded by carpets of lush, green grass and highlighted by a meandering, cascading brook flanked by large rustic boulders and colorful wildflowers. As the sun sets, ...

The “Hot” Outdoor Trend

Firepits, fireplaces, and fire elements are in demand. Shortly after the events that shook our country in September of 2001, the face of residential landscaping transformed. With people suddenly afraid to travel, they dipped into their portfolios and began investing in their homes. Resort-like features were being incorporated in backyards ...

Dos & Don’ts Of Landscape Design-Build

Practices to embrace and mistakes to avoid for project success. I have had the great fortune of working in the Green Industry for over 45 years (I started when I was very young!). In that time, I have had the great honor of working at some incredible companies, with leaders ...

Turf Design-Build: October 2022

Turf Design-Build: October 2022 Volume 15 • Number 1 FEATURES Dos & Don’ts Of DB | A Design-Build veteran on practices to embrace and mistakes to avoid for project success. The Hot DB Trend | Hoffman Landscapes/Kent Greenhouse& Gardens on firepits, fireplaces, and fire elements. A Streamside Farmhouse | Designs ...

Embracing The Summer Slide (In Landscape Design!)

A backyard entertaining space earns top grades for Phase One Landscapes. How do you earn top grades for a patio project? Incorporating a water slide that maximizes summer fun—while transforming a sloped site from a negative to a positive—is certainly a great start! And the judges of the Associated Landscape ...

Irrigating Urban Sites

Smart Irrigation:   Sensor-based smart irrigation solves the challenges at 9/11 Memorial Plaza. Water has entered a new era where it is no longer economically, socially, or even legally sustainable for sites to waste water. With UN projections showing a 40% gap in freshwater availability by 2030, it’s paramount that ...