education plants
Why bother with learning winter plant identification?
Good question! This past weekend I attended a winter plant identification course at the Van Dusen Botanical Gardens and the…
lawn care
Here to help: “How can lawn care services improve the look of my yard?”
Glad you asked When you hire lawn care professionals they cut your lawn regularly and at the correct height. Every…
arborist notes education trees
How to get certified by the ISA as an arborist!
Vas delivers! If you read my blogs regularly you will know that I always encourage landscapers to get certified as…
education landscape maintenance trees
How landscapers increase revenue with easy tree work!
Support West Coast Landscape Pro! Buy a nice shirt!! Easy does it! I recently showed up on site to do…
gardening meditations
How to win with solid relationships
No means Yes somewhere else Now, my last blog post was slightly negative. Briefly, an old lady hired me late…
landscape maintenance meditations
Why you need good relationships to succeed!
Be known! Grant Cardone says you must be known to do well and uses Starbucks as an example. Starbucks doesn’t…
pruning safety trees
How to deal with broken tree branches
Bomb cyclone When the weather forecast calls for a bomb cyclone, you can expect heavy winds and rain to cause…
pruning shrubs
How to prune your shrubs in fall
Seasonal client Now, I obviously prefer solid, regular clients but some of my seasonal, occasional clients are hilarious. They call…
arborist notes education trees
ISA certified landscape professionals do better
Happy client I love happy clients! Take a look at the text I received last week from one of my…
gardening weeding
If Sisyphus was a landscape professional
The legend You know the story where Sisyphus is made to push a large rock up a mountain. When he…
