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Story of a Landscape: Mountain View Nursery’s Award-winning Paver Patio
What started as a landscape project a decade ago for a local firm has evolved into three significant hardscape projects and regional recognition from the product manufacturer. Mountain View Nursery and...
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Story of a Landscape: Understanding the Clients’ Vision
Sometimes, the key to success isn’t how hard you work, it’s how well you listen. Just ask Jamon Peterson. If he hadn’t had the ability to really hear what the client wanted, it’s possible that Peterson...
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Designing Permeable Driveways for Water Quality
Located right on Lake Winnebago, one of Wisconsin’s largest inland lakes, a home site on Firelane Road in Menasha, Wisconsin, offered its owners the opportunity to build their dream retirement home in...
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Story of a Landscape: Complementary Split-Level Hardscape Patios
Imagine getting a job because your new client liked the work your company had done for a friend. It’s very flattering, to say the least. Now imagine that new client requests this project to be bigger,...
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Story of a Landscape: A Big Job Done in Small Steps
PHOTOS: Grindstone Hardscapes and Graczyk Lawn & Landscape How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. And, how do you do a project that surprises you with its number of components and size?...
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Story of a Landscape: Baseball Stadium Paver Redo
There’s little question Mark Hain loves the University of Nevada, and the feeling is mutual. Although not an alumnus, the community-minded owner of Hain Enterprises has been called in on more than one...
View ArticleHardscape Services Can Grow Your Company
You just finished a maintenance job at a client’s residence and noticed a crew arriving to build a pool surround. If you are like me, you’re wondering why that client didn’t ask you to do the job....
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Inside the Recent Growth and Trends of Hardscapes
The Great Recession hit the hardscape industry hard, but “we are finally back on track,” say experts in the landscape design/build industry who report five years of slow and steady growth. In fact,...
View ArticleSigns the Hardscape Industry is Back
The Great Recession hit the hardscape industry hard, but “we are finally back on track,” states Gabriela Mariscal, geotechnical engineer with the National Concrete Masonry Association, a trade group...
View ArticleStory of a Landscape: Historic Look Solves Contemporary Problems
Imagine a Tudor revival home in a historic district. Now imagine it has an asphalt driveway that needs to be updated, straightened and structurally improved. There are only a couple of challenges to...
View ArticleConstruction, Renovation Demands on the Rise
Industry experts say demand for landscape design/build services is directly tied to demand for construction and renovation of both residential and commercial buildings. So as the economy has recovered...
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Story of a Landscape: Circular Patio Creates Backyard Destination
Their name says pavers, and the award they recently received from Hardscape North America (HNA) was in the category of Concrete Paver – Residential – Less than 3,000 square feet. Still, Justin Hampton...
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Story of a Landscape: Celebrating Cornhusker History in Pavers
When Nebraska observes its sesquicentennial in 2017, Scott and Heidi Haynes will have good reason to celebrate. The owners of Dreamscapes Inc., the Hayneses installed more than 20,000 square feet of...
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Story of a Landscape: Soccer Stadium Boasts Award-Winning Retaining Wall
Dwayne Lewis, president and owner of Lewis Block & Supply in Kansas City, Missouri, describes his company as “just the wall sub” for Notre Dame de Sion High School’s new soccer stadium. Others...
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Story of a Landscape: Wrigley Field Renovation Scores Home Run
It’s been a very good fall for Olivia Lockett. The owner and president of C.R. Schmidt, Inc., not only helped celebrate her beloved Cubs’ first World Series championship since 1908, but the paver work...
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Story of a Landscape: University Adds a Paver “Living Room”
The Legacy Paver Group is a certified Interlocking Concrete Paving Institute installer. However, when the University of San Francisco hired the Santa Rosa, California-based firm for a project, they...
View ArticleTap Into the Hardscape Renovation Business
Many of you design and install hardscapes for your residential and commercial clients. Hardscape installs are typically one-and-done projects. But they don’t have to be. You can help clients...
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Story of a Landscape: Hardscape Project Complements Sustainability Center
It seems only natural that a center dedicated to sustainability would opt for permeable pavers as part of its new facility. However, in completing its part of the construction of the Barbara Cox Center...
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Story of a Landscape: Paver Plaza in Arizona Earns HNA, ICPI Awards
What better way to enhance a new community landmark in southern Arizona than with a paver plaza? That’s what city leaders here thought, and the result is a prize-winner for the community and Re-Create...
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Our 11 Favorite Hardscape Projects
If you’re looking for hardscape inspiration, look no further. These are some of the most unique projects we’ve covered in Turf that have not only won awards but also met environmental requirements —...
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