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• Cover Story: 6 Principals of Lighting Water Features: Tips and techniques for making projects shine
• Equipment Matters: Grow Your Compact Excavator: How these machines are using attachments and features to leave a larger footprint on jobsites
• Lawn Maintenance: Balancing Act: Find the perfect combination of mower speed and cut quality
• Business Bests: Managing Generation Yers: Tips for dealing with young employees and ways to improve their work ethic
• Editor's Picks: Grow, trim and illuminate projects
• Safety Watch: Unsteady Ground: Prevent cave-in while digging
• Featured Product Section: Water Feature Products: Leave projects, clients' faces sparkling
• Breaking Ground: Delay Today, Regret the Next: How and why to avoid procrastination
• Field Report: Reflect on Nature: Chinese garden brings harmony, culturally symbolic plants to Portland
• Irrigation: Erosion Specialist Battles the Atlantic: Stabilizing landscape for new construction
• Chemical Care: Saving Your Ash: Detecting Emerald Ash Borers early is the difference between a good defense and total destruction of trees
• Landscaper of the Year Finalist: Satisfaction Guaranteed: David Adam's high work standards helped him overcome personal, business struggles
• Portfolio: Artistic Hillside: Carving out a masterpiece from rubble
• Lawn Maintenance: Balancing Act