I recently read an article in The Wall Street Journal reporting how Mike Rowe, the amiable, really-good-sport host of the television show "Di...

In July I attended a PLANET (Professional Landcare Network) event in Washington, D.C. This was really two occasions rolled into one: A Renewal...

I had a favorite landscape architecture professor at North Carolina State University in the early '90s who had a background in psychology and...

In the June issue of Total Landscape Care, we devoted 10 pages to a special report on the economy. When I began research into this month's eq...

I recently had the privilege of organizing a local charitable event to convert a patch of mud, grass and gravel, which served as an overflow p...

I'm definitely not what you'd call a tech-head. Never have been. As a landscape designer who came through school just as CAD was making its ...

In this issue of Total Landscape Care you will meet our 2009 Landscaper of the Year, Roger Grothe, president and founder of Aloha Landscaping ...

I've started a new tradition at my house with my two sons, Joe, age 8, and Cary, age 5, that subtly stresses the importance of increasing our...

By the time you receive this issue, the United States will have a new president. As I write this in October, however, I don't have the benefi...

There is an old adage I heard somewhere during my education that challenges landscape designers to "seek the genius of the place." It's a p...

The truth is, I don't like change much. I don't consider myself a complacent person: I've always strived to move upward, take on new challe...

Those of you who read my column know I'm fond of encouraging our readers to take break from their busy schedules and fire off an occasional e...