Because weather conditions often change quickly in the fall, an outbreak of turf disease can erupt suddenly. Turf experts advise that in the fall, maintenance professionals should check for disease outbreaks more frequently.
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Lawrence and other Kansas cities have been permitted by the state to use treated effluent water to irrigate landscaping, offsetting the amount of potable water necessary to do so. The summer drought spurred local officials to push the permit through.
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For landscape maintenance professionals, less time spent mowing and maintaining a given property means more efficiency and potentially higher profits. When it comes to cutting more grass quicker, two main mower factors come into play: Faster cruising speeds and/or larger cutting decks. This year, a number of top mower manufacturers addressed this with new faster products.
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The new Miami Art Museum is on schedule for completion for the fall of 2013, while the new Miami Science Museum (MiaSci), which broke ground in February, eyes a completion date for the end of 2014. The ambitious plans to redevelop Bicentennial Park as Museum Park, however, have been scaled back to a promenade and bay walk. Still, both museums will have will have extensive landscaping.
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Central coast-area water officials in California unanimously adopted new rules requiring developers to reduce runoff from impervious surfaces in their projects like roads, roofs and parking lots. Permeable and porous paving are options for processing runoff and improving water quality.
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The Herbert Hoover Dike is considered an at-risk barrier to contain stormwater surge in Lake Okeechobee, the largest freshwater lake in the state. Following deadly hurricanes in 1926 and 1928, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers began constructing the dike . . .
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Under a new EPA rule, consumers would have to buy a minimum of four gallons of gasoline from certain gas pumps; it is aimed at keeping people from miss-fueling small engines such as those in many landscape equipment.
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Mount Greenwood Park in Chicago received an all-new play area as part of a larger park renovation that also included improved baseball and softball fields, an ice-skating rink and a swimming pool. The new play space has separate modular play structures for ages 2-5 and 5-12, two swing sets, a splash pad and interactive ''sound sculptures''.
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