Friday, May 16, 2008

Springtime for Contractors

Contractors, we don't envy the job you have, especially in Spring, and especially in this particular Spring. We thought you would enjoy this article and the list below (it is more about Building Contractors, but the headaches are similar for Landscaper Contractors).

How to Drive a Contractor Crazy- My favorites from the list:

1. Avoid making decisions.

2. Change orders frequently, then become outraged by the additional costs and delays.

3. Ask a contractor to provide a solution to a difficult design problem, then use a different contractor for the job.

4. Challenge a contractor’s expertise with sentences that include the words “my brother-in-law thinks,” “my neighbor thinks”

9. Schedule construction during the third trimester of pregnancy.

11. Call the contractor in the middle of the night and on weekends about problems that can wait until Monday.

12. Hover about a job while murmuring tragically, “It doesn’t look finished.” It’s a job site. It doesn’t look finished because it’s not finished.
See the full list

Monday, May 12, 2008

Tree Planting Programs in the US

The Greening of America - washingtonpost.com:

"Cities once planted trees because they were beautiful. Now trees are being retasked as "green infrastructure" managed by "urban foresters" to work as powerful energy-saving, carbon-sucking, wastewater-treating tools to save the planet. But as the mayors spin their green dreams, their releaf teams have had to confront a brutal reality: Planting a tree is a lot harder than it looks..." MORE

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

May's Delight Debuts in Highland Park's Crab Collection

Our very own May's Delight Crabapple has just joined the nations largest municipal collection of Crabapple in Highland Park. For two decades City Forester Larry King has been adding to the collection of over 2,000, and now has 73 varieties of Crabs.

Welcome to Crab Apple City:

"I'm planting a couple of new varieties this year, American Salute and Excalibur, and a brand new one just put out, May's Delight," he said.

Monday, May 5, 2008

New TreeLink Website

TreeLink has revamped their website- treelink.org