Colorado Green Now

The latest ALCC news, including Colorado Green NOW articles, legislative updates, and programming announcements. 

Waterwise creates positive experiences for clients and employees Email
Written by Christy Eull   
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 02:00 AM

Colorado Green Now

 Waterwise creates positive experiences for clients and employees 

Waterwise Land & Waterscapes, Inc., Fort Collins, with its 100-plus-years of combined experience, serves a range or clients from small residential properties to million-dollar developments. The company provides landscape design, build, maintenance, construction and management services, and prides itself both on providing positive experiences for clients and valuing each crew member on every project.

When owner Lorin Bridger started his company in 2001, he had one truck, one small trailer and a lot of passion. His passion then and now is to improve people’s well-being with tailored environments. Bridger’s goal is to inspire other people’s passion for outdoor living by creating change through natural material projects.

Bridger’s company culture grew multi-fold from this passion. “As a company we care about each other,” he says. “We make it a priority to be sure all are enjoying their days while doing quality work. Our culture is one where we do right by each other to help make the quality of life, for our clients, better through landscape.

Waterwise wants to guide clients into landscapes that maximize use of natural resources, honor budgets, are creative and have a positive impact on people’s wellbeing. “We are creating ecologically minded projects” shares Bridger. 

Read more...
 
Erratic water year for Denver Email
Written by Todd Hartman at Denver Water   
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 01:00 AM

Colorado Green Now

 Erratic water year for Denver

According to state climatologists, Colorado's summer or 2022 was the sixth warmest in the 128-year maintained record. Although, the summer was warm, Denver Water reported in its Denver Water Tap series that the 2022 water year (October 1 - September 30) was erratic. Colorado had a good water in year in the higher elevations and much drier one in Denver and nearby suburbs. 
Read the full article by Todd Hartman, Denver Water, and see graphs of historic temperatures and precipitation here.

 
Plant lovers, don't miss Email
Written by Colorado Green NOW   
Wednesday, November 09, 2022 04:00 AM

Colorado Green Now

Plant lovers, don't miss

CSU planting containers for sale

CSU has 635 20-inch Brunello rolled-rim planters/pots made from 100% polyethylene with a “weathered terracotta” appearance. Though purchased in 2000 and used in CSU Flower Trials they are in excellent condition. The bottom of each pot has a small eye bolt attached used to anchor it into the ground.

Price: $10/container or $5,000 for all 635 containers. If interested, contact: Jim Klett at 970-218-0104 or [email protected].

 

Read more in this issue of Colorado Green Now:
Time for landscape pros to renew nursery license
Trust and honesty help retain employees 
Red Birds in a Tree - a native 'must-have'                                                                                                                  

 

 
Red Birds in a Tree - a native 'must-have' Email
Written by Colorado Green NOW   
Wednesday, November 09, 2022 03:00 AM

Colorado Green Now

Red Birds in a Tree - a native 'must-have' 

Red Birds in a Tree (Scrophularia macrantha) is one of the most beloved North American native plants by gardeners across the nation. How do we know? Just google “Red Birds in” and you will see how many nurseries sell this plant, which is actually very rare in nature. Plant Select and High Country Gardens brought this plant into cultivation in the early 2000s, which may have saved it from becoming listed as endangered due to climate change and mining. Prominent plantsman David Salman, appropriately named this figwort Red Birds in a Tree. One look at the flowers, and you’ll see the joyfully singing red birds and you’ll never forget its descriptive common name.  
 
Red Birds in a Tree is native to the Sky Islands – mountains surrounded by deserts – of New Mexico in only three counties, more specifically in the mountains of the Mimbres Mountains, Kneeling Nun and Cook's Peak. It grows on steep, rocky, usually north-facing igneous cliffs and talus slopes, and in montane coniferous forests. Early botanists called this plant Mimbres figwort because of its location. Red Birds in a Tree is one of the few species of Scrophularia with red flowers. Most “scrophs” have terminal clusters of small greenish brown to purplish-brown flowers that wouldn’t stand out in a garden setting. And here’s some trivia. The genus name Scrophularia comes from scrofula, a form of tuberculosis. In the past, several species of figworts were used in herbal medicine to treat this disease.
Read more...
 
Trust and honesty help retain employees Email
Written by Colorado Green NOW   
Wednesday, November 09, 2022 02:00 AM

Colorado Green Now

Trust and honesty help retain employees

Companies share benefits and challenges  
When Dan Grange, ALCC 2022 board president and hiring manager at BrightView Landscape Development, concluded in his July letter to members that “the cost of low trust is poor employee retention,” Colorado Green magazine wanted to explore this more deeply. ALCC sent a survey to all members with several questions to prompt their input on key issues affecting employee retention. 

Responses are anonymous and mostly verbatim, and key findings are summarized here. ALCC received detailed responses from three companies that have been in business for a varying number of years. Each offers a broad suite of services including design, landscape construction, landscape installation and irrigation. Some offer additional services. Companies are referred to as follows: 

  • Company A: 12 years 

  • Company B: 21 years 

  • Company c: 39 years

Read more...
 
<< first < Prev 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Next > last >>

Page 21 of 286