November 2015

Web impressions

Do you like what you see if you Google yourself?

Waterloo Chapter brings outdoor classroom to Guelph school

Sir Isaac Brock Public School in Guelph was the site of this year’s Waterloo Chapter school greening project.

Gerberas named plant of the year by Canada Blooms

Canada Blooms has announced the Garvinea Sweet series of gerberas as its 2016 plant of the year.

Gelderman landscape giveaway

Gelderman Landscape Services celebrated its 60th anniversary by offering a $10,000 new landscape giveaway.

Toronto members create unique accessibility project at Markham school

Members of Toronto Chapter are being hailed for making green space history in York Region.

London Chapter continues support of Parkway project

Oct. 3 saw a large number of volunteers brave wind and cold to plant 300 trees along the Parkway.

GreenTrade Expo has great plans on the horizon

Bruce Morton, Ottawa director and chair of GreenTrade Expo, has announced two great changes happening for GreenTrade Expo in 2016 and 2017.

After 25 years, passion continues for brothers at Garden Grove

David Lammers’ success story begins with riding his bicycle to south Burlington homes to mow and maintain lawns.

2016 OTHF Scholarship recipients

Scholarships are investments towards industry’s future

Family celebrates 60 years of growth at Canadale Nurseries

Canadale Nurseries in St. Thomas is celebrating 60 years in business.

Congress 2016 will provide tools for the trade

Inquiries are pouring in to the LO office with everyone wanting to know more about Congress 2016.

Baseball and landscaping

The image communicated volumes about integrity, contribution, mentorship, purpose, collaboration and positive competition.

Show us your strength and we will show you the money

Each year our chapter boards work diligently for you by coordinating the best possible educational and networking events.

Support for industry’s future

Over 26 years you and your associates have brought Landscape Ontario to a very high standard indeed.

Highway trees project a continuation of 401 planting

Vineland Research and Innovation Centre is continuing the task to develop guidelines to sustain healthy trees along highways.

Giant pumpkin promotes compost use

A giant pumpkin weighing 1,078 lbs. is the winning entry in this year’s Annual Pumpkin Growing Contest.

Ontario celebrates National Tree Day

After five years, Canada’s National Tree Day continues to serve as an opportunity to appreciate the great benefits that trees provide.

Growers and municipalities work to improve supply and planting of urban landscape trees

A workshop in Milton brought members of the growers sector and municipal green space managers together to create a strategy on the supply and planting of trees in the urban landscape.

Just like butterflies

The wonderful LO volunteers, who make these projects a success, remind me of butterflies.

Contractor receives bill for $11,000

Actual experiences from Landscape Ontario excavating landscape contractors.

Professional development season is here

This is the time of year when most of us in this industry breathe at least a brief sigh of relief, and start to think about winter month plans for you and your staff’s training and development.