The Growing Concern - March 2013 by Sandy Munley

Growing Concern

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March 2013

A p u b l i c a t i o n o f t h e O h i o La n d s c a p e A s s o c i a t i o n

OLA Meeting March 14, 2013 PAGE 7

Low Voltage Lighting Seminar April 9, 2013 PAGE 18

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President’s column

There’s An App For That

The world has come a long way from when I received my Commodore 64 computer as a Christmas gift years ago. Now this was not your run of the mill set up, I had hit the jackpot here. It had a 5 ¼” floppy disk drive. At this point more than half of you might be asking what a Commodore 64 is and the other half are pondering the floppy drive. Fast forward thirty years and the phone I carry makes that computer look like a crayon. One of the big fat ones you get in pre-school. Now even the word phone is becoming obsolete as we carry handheld computers to connect and communicate. Apps are making it easier for us to work on the go and be more efficient.

So I got curious and searched for some smartphone apps that might make the work of a landscape professional easier. What follows are a few I found that seemed interesting and of merit. Now for the disclaimer – This is a list to be used for you to start your own research and find out what works best for you. I am in no way endorsing or suggesting you use these specific products. That being said, here is what I found:

Dirr’s Tree and Shrub Finder

Described as the most comprehensive, authoritative, and interactive directory for trees and shrubs. With extensive search criteria and detailed text by woody plant expert Dr. Michael A. Dirr, users can quickly and easily find the perfect plant for any situation.

FlowerPedia FlowerPedia is the definitive flowers application! That is what is being said about this app that presents over 2,800 photos of flowers.

Landscaping Calculator

JAmes Arch, ASLA Vizmeg Landscape, Inc.

My advice is to never underestimate the power of pencil, paper and the grey matter between your ears.

This App is used to calculate mulch, topsoil, aggregates and other landscape materials. Some reviews don’t rate it very high but this may be an opportunity for a budding landscaper/App developer.

Talking Translator A Talking Translator/Dictionary that supports many languages and includes a dictionary, Word of the Day, and other features to help you communicate better. continued on page 6 The Growing Concern x March 2013

Ta b l e o f c o n t e n t s M a r c h 2 0 1 3 w w w. o h i o l a n d s c a p e r s . o r g

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Features

President’s Column

There’s An App For That

Fiscal Fitness

Plant Of The Month

Estates

Catalpa speciosa Northern Catalpa

Perennial Focus

For Safety Sake

Even More Summer Bulbs

Safety Program Parameters

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Regular Writers James Arch, ASLA, Vizmeg Landscape, Inc. Michael J. Donnellan, King Financial, Inc. Jim Funai, COLP, Cuyahoga Community College Shelley Funai, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens Sandy Munley, Ohio Landscape Association Bobbie Schwartz, FAPLD, Bobbie’s Green Thumb

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Instructed by Chris Pascoe. Sponsored and hosted by Tri-R-Stone in Garfield Heights. For more information or to register online, contact the OLA at 1-800-335-6521 or visit OhioLandscapers.org.

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OLA Meeting MARCH 14, 2013 Topic: Creative landscape solutions that sell. Speaker: Kevin Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, APLD, Lifestyle Landscaping. Held at St. Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Woodside in Broadview Heights. For more information or to register online, contact the OLA at 1-800-335-6521 or visit OhioLandscapers.org.

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Landscape Ohio! Awards Dinner MARCH 21, 2013 An invitation-only event for those companies that have entered the Landscape Ohio! Awards Program. Held at the Cleveland Botanical Garden. For more information about the Landscape Ohio! Awards program, contact the OLA at 1-800-335-6521 or visit OhioLandscapers.org.

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Landscape Industry Certified Technician Test August 8, 2013 The hands-on portion of the Landscape Industry Certified Technician Test will be offered on the campus of the OSU/ATI in Wooster. For more information, visit OhioLandscapers.org or call The Ohio State ATI at 330-287-7511.

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President’s column continued from pg 3 Landscapers Companion

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Deck Estimator This comprehensive yet simple to use tool, calculates the total cost of a backyard deck and lists all the quantities of materials.

Evernote Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your everyday life using your computer, phone, tablet, and the web. That is what they say on their website. What’s not to like about that?

AutoCAD WS The AutoCAD WS mobile App gives you everything you need to view, edit and share DWG files on your smartphone or tablet.

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As you can see from this short list of Apps available, they cover many aspects of our industry, from plants to design and invoicing. Do the research and you may find efficiencies to help you through you day. I have one last thought. It seems that as my phone gets smarter I head in the opposite direction. My advice is to never underestimate the power of pencil, paper and the grey matter between your ears.

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Fiscal Fitness

Michael J. Donnellan King Financial, Inc.

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Account Registrations You can have accounts listed in joint names, as Transfer on Death or in a trust. There are many options to consider depending on how you want the assets used after your passing.

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Fiscal Fitness continued from pg 8 Health Care Directive/ Living Will This document can convey your wishes when you are no longer able to communicate them. Giving your family clear, written directives about your end-of-life wishes can spare them anguish and make sure you get the type of care you want.

â&#x20AC;Śdonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rely on a Divorce Decree if your former spouse is still listed as a beneficiary on your retirement account.

Durable Power of Attorney This would name someone to make decisions, such as healthcare and financial, on your behalf should you become incapacitated. You can give your agent as much or as little power as feels comfortable to you.

Last Will and Testament This ensures your assets transfer in the manner you prefer. This will generally include leaving property to people and/or organizations you choose, names a guardian for minor children, and names an executor to give that person authority to make sure the terms of your will are carried out.

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Plant Of the Month

Jim Funai, COLP Cuyahoga Community College

Shelley Funai Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens

Catalpa speciosa

Northern Catalpa

As we sat down to put contestants for this month in the octagon for a battle royale, our conversation turned to a little reminiscing of the most recent CENTS show. Shelley and I had a chance to sit in on Dr. Dirr’s talk about magnificent trees. It was a good reminder of the power of large trees and the magic they can instill in a landscape. It was nice to see that he didn’t feel the need to speak about a bunch of rare and obscure plants while getting his point across that big trees are great! When you are charged with presenting a plant of the month or a talk about plants, you have this slight nagging pressure to come up with something that no one has ever heard of and now you are super cool because you introduced it. Perhaps it’s the same feeling that makes fashion designers force someone down the runway in a trashbag and introduce it as the next spring fashion hit. Maybe we need to look around at what is already working and use it to our benefit more? With that in mind, this month we will skip the hot new trashbag outfit and talk about more of a carhart fashion common tree. It is likely that you don’t marvel at the beauty of every pair of carhart pants you see, but perhaps you don’t think about how tough and

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This tree has one of the most beautiful flowers of all our flowering trees. durable they are. Our tree this month is a carhart type of tough and a carhart type of “ornamental”. Catalpa speciosa (Northern Catalpa, Bean Tree, Cigar Tree) is a native tree that has naturalized in most of central and eastern U.S. and Canada. Hailing from the family of Bignoniaceae, this larger member of the family has some obscure cousins and some common ones such as Trumpet Creeper (Campsis) and Crossvine (Bignonia) - both of which are useful yet aggressive native twining vines. Catalpa tops out in the 60 foot range with age and produces a massive trunk. The Ohio Champion is 69 feet tall with a crown of continued on page 16

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Plant Of the Month continued from pg 14 81 feet wide and a trunk with a 21.6 foot circumference. That is a caliper (diameter) of just under 7 feet! We’ve seen references to this being used as a street tree, but with a possible 7 foot diameter it is a bit hard to imagine the sidewalk and street agreeing with that choice. In truth, this tree isn’t one to give much consideration to in a city lot. Save this for a bigger suburban or rural setting where it can have some breathing room. This tree has one of the most beautiful flowers of all our flowering trees. I remember a day about 6 years ago while working as a salesman at a garden center a couple bringing in a flowering branch all excited that they found a “tree orchid”. They had a catalpa flower panicle, which does look like an orchid in bloom. Petals are fused into a trumpet shape and are pure white. Inside the throat of the trumpet are two large yellow/orange spots with deep magenta dotted stripes radiating out. These flowers are borne on terminal (end of the branch) panicles in late June and cover the tree. In bloom it resembles the effect of an Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra). Flowers are not long lasting and will begin to blanket the ground in a rare mid-June snowstorm. Leaves are large (6 to 12 inches) deep green heart shapes with an entire margin that sometimes develops two or three pointed lobes. Following the bloom is a fruit that looks much like a 12 inch green bean. In our observation, fruiting on this tree is sporadic with some specimens producing heavy crops in some years and other specimens nearly fruitless. In our gardens at home we have a tree that is near 50 feet tall with a circumference of about 14 feet, certainly not a baby. Each year we get a beautiful bloom and in 6 years we nave not found a single fruit. Certainly ours has produced at some point in the past decade as there are a few young catalpa sprouts around the woods. Many members of the family can be heavy reseeders, but catalpa seems to behave in this respect, not overdoing it like a silver maple (acer saccharinum). Perhaps the biggest liability of the tree is litter. You will find many references calling the wood brittle which makes the tree sound like it is weak wooded. When I look at the lowest branch on our tree at home with a diameter over 24 inches reaching more than 30 feet from the trunk it is clearly a strong wood. The brittle reference comes from the wood fiber’s inelasticity. The elasticity, or bendability, comes from several properties in the wood including fiber lengths influenced by the ratios of lignin and cellulose. Wood has three axes to consider in strength, radial, tangential, and longitudinal. It is the longitudinal (along the length of the branch) elasticity of catalpa that is lacking. If you were to climb this tree and walk out on a branch it will bend very little and suddenly snap off. This snapping of the wood allows for small

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branches to snap in the wind and snow loads. Perhaps we are immune to noticing it as an issue since there are many mature trees that surround our home and we are always doing branch pickup walks. It certainly doesn’t seem to produce any more branches than the maples, oaks, and pines we have. A second litter issue comes from the Catalpa Sphinx Moth (Ceratomia catalpae). This native moth feeds exclusively on the leaves of catalpa and, in some years, the feeding is heavy enough to strip nearly 75% of the foliage off. We have observed this on our tree and, in a heavy year, it is raining little foliage droppings down to the point of wanting an umbrella. The feeding does not cause permanent damage to the tree; they’ve evolved together and this is part of their life. Planting the tree just helps keep the native moth alive, a good thing to consider for the nature conscience customer. Back to the carhart reference. This tree is like a sturdy pair of work pants, not the most beautiful, but very reliable and able to perform. Catalpa is okay with being in dry soils and wet soils. Have a full sun sight? Okay. Shade? Okay. Infertile junk? Okay. Whatever you put it in, it is likely to go to work being a tree. A southern cousin to Catalpa speciosa is Catalpa bignonioides. This tree is typically smaller in mature size and does offer some cultivar interest. ‘Aurea’ is a 30 by 30 foot globe of bright lime green leaves about half the size of its northern cousin. Shelley remembers several very interesting specimens of ‘Nana’ from her days on the Geauga Lake horticulture staff. ‘Nana’ is small as the name implies (15 feet by 15 feet) and forms a mushroom or umbrella looking accent tree. Both of these cultivars are worth consideration and are available. Our understanding of the landscape around us is always evolving, and in this evolution we should learn to appreciate our native trees and their utilitarian beauty. Storm water management is our hot topic du jour and will require some relearning of our use of plants. Perhaps catalpa will find some respect in this arena in the years to come. Thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you next month for another fashion show of great plants!

Jim Funai, COLP, is full time faculty at Cuyahoga Community College, a PLANET accredited, associate of applied science in horticulture degree program, offering many paths to higher education to the green industry. Shelley Funai is a full time Senior Gardener at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, Ohio that offers a historic estate designed by Warren H. Manning and a beautiful manor house museum. Both are graduates of The Ohio State University. Contact Jim and Shelley via email at hortsquad@gmail.com

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Perennial Focus

Bobbie Schwartz, FAPLD Bobbie’s Green Thumb

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Even More Summer Bulbs Temperatures are still winter-like and there may or may not be snow on the ground as you read this, but it’s not too soon to be thinking about summer blooming hardy bulbs. Those in this article bloom from mid-June through August and early September. I’ve mentioned several Allium in my past two articles but there are several more worth using. There are two relatively small yellow ones that make quite a splash in the landscape. Allium moly (Golden Garlic) is only ten inches high, has dense umbels of bright yellow flowers, and naturalizes rapidly. I’ve planted mine in between clumps of Stachys monieri that won’t bloom until July. The cultivar ‘Jeannine’ sports two flower spikes per bulb instead of the typical one and flowers a few weeks earlier than the species – meaning early June rather than mid-June. Both grow in full sun to part shade in zones 3 to 8.

The other yellow Allium is A. flavum (Small Yellow Onion). Similar in height and cultural needs, it will not bloom until mid-July or early August. This Allium has a more vertical umbel but is also a naturalizer and is hardy in zones 4 to 8. Similar in appearance but pale purple rather than yellow is another prolific naturalizer, Allium carinatum var. pulchellum (Keeled Garlic). Although the catalogs say that it grows twenty to twenty-four inches high, in my garden, it only grows eighteen inches high. It blooms in full sun from mid-July to mid-August and is hardy in zones 5 to 8. I planted mine near Hydrangea continued on page 22

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Perennial Focus continued from pg 20 ‘Endless Summer’ and ‘Jogasaki’, but it has since spread across the bed to a Picea glauca and acts as a color echo of Origanum ‘Herrenhausen’. Thus, in mid-summer, this bed is full of serene pastels while other parts of the garden are bright and bold. The last Allium to bloom is Allium tuberosum (Garlic Chives) which makes its appearance in early September. This one grows twelve to eighteen inches high and is also a prolific naturalizer. Its black seedheads look beautiful in late fall and winter but I highly recommend cutting them down before the seeds disperse if you want to curb their spread. Mine have seeded into the joints between my concrete driveway and low stone wall, providing a green border during the summer. In that bed, the Allium are a companion to Siberian Iris, Miscanthus ‘Adagio’, Eryngium, and Sedum ‘Hab Grey’. Lilium is the other genus that offers color from June to August. Asiatic lilies are the first group to bloom. In mid-June, wide, six-petaled flowers, on two to three foot stems, brighten the landscape with a wide range of colors. Hardy in zones 3 to 9, they like full sun or light shade and look best in groups. Happily, they are relatively inexpensive. One word of advice that pertains to all lily groups and species. Although the flowers are gorgeous and fragrant, the stalks add nothing; therefore, I suggest planting lilies behind other perennials or shrubs that will hide the stalks. Lilium longiflorum/Asiatic hybrids are similar but a bit stronger and they, too, are available in a wide range of colors. I find that they also perennialize slowly. These are hardy in zones 5 to 9. Personally, I prefer the species lilies that are frequently referred to as Turks Cap or Turban Lily. The petals are recurved and the overall flowers are smaller than those of the Asiatics, Orientals, and Trumpets, but they also look more delicate and natural. One of my favorites is Lilium martagon which has very distinctive foliage; it looks like a skirt several inches below the flowers. The flowers of the species are pink but there are also white and apricot cultivars. This lily prefers part shade, grows four to six feet tall, and is hardy in zones 3 to 8. It also blooms in mid-June. Oriental lilies like ‘Casa Blanca’, a familiar white cultivar, bloom in late June and July on three to four foot stems. Also available in a wide range of colors, the flowers are similar to those of the Asiatics but larger and even more fragrant; the petals are slightly recurved. These lilies are hardy in zones 4 to 9.

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It may be too late to order these bulbs for spring, but perhaps these suggestions will encourage you to look for spots where they could be planted in the fall. Hardy in zones 3 to 9, Lilium henryi is another Turkscap Lily but this one has bright orange, blackly speckled flowers. Like the Martagons, its flowers are very recurved but there are fewer on a stalk. They bloom in July and grow three to four feet tall. If not grown in full sun, they will lean toward the sun and eventually flop. Frankly, lilies do not look wonderful when they are staked. The Oriental/Trumpet hybrids are fragrant, hardy in zones 4 to 8, and strong perennializers. Derek Fell, a well-known designer and trialer of plants, says that ‘Scheherazade’ was the best lily at his farm. He set an extraordinary number of flowers per stem and plants were so vigorous they doubled in quantity each season. In addition, the stems were long enough for cutting without depleting the plant of energy. These lilies are very tall (six to seven feet) and bloom in late July and August. The latest blooming lily and the tallest (six to ten feet) I have grown is Lilium formosanum. It is planted behind Rudbeckia ‘Cherry Brandy’ and Amsonia ‘Halfway to Arkansas’. Hardy in zones 3 to 9, its pure white flowers make their appearance in late August. It may be too late to order these bulbs for spring, but perhaps these suggestions will encourage you to look for spots where they could be planted in the fall.

Bobbie Schwartz, FAPLD, owner of Bobbie’s Green Thumb in Shaker Hts., Ohio, is a landscape designer, consultant, free-lance writer, and lecturer whose specialties are perennial gardens and four-season landscapes. In addition to being an Ohio Landscape Association (OLA) member, she is an active member of the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association (ONLA) and Perennial Plant Association (PPA). Bobbie is a Past President of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD). Bobbie currently serves as chair of the ONLA Plant Selection Committee. Bobbie can be reached at (216) 752-9449.

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F o r Sa f e t y Sa k e

Safety Program Parameters Risk Control 360° Implementation of an integrated safety management system can reduce and control injury rates as well as related expenses. Following are the key parameters of a safety management system.

Written Safety & Health Policy The policy should be signed by a top company official and express the employer’s commitment to workplace safety and health. It should include responsibilities for managers, supervisors, team leaders and employees. All new hires should be provided with a copy to reinforce that safety is a priority. Posting the policy in common areas and/or including it with a paycheck once a year will ensure that all employees are aware of the company’s focus on safety.

Visible Senior Management Leadership It should be apparent to everyone in the company that safety is an organizational value. Senior management should attend training sessions, conduct safety audits in their departments, conduct accident investigations, and participate in new hire safety orientation. By taking the lead, management ensures that safety is, in fact, an organizational value.

Employee Involvement and Recognition If a company understands when and why employees are at risk, they can more easily prevent injuries. That is why it is important to involve and recognize the workforce. Safety

Employees that transition back to work on modified duty before they are fully recovered have been known to heal faster. committees are a good option but they are not effective for all workplaces. Another way to involve employees is with risk surveys. For instance, if fire prevention is a concern, employees could be asked to identify missing extinguishers, inappropriate storage containers, or potential ignition sources by using an inspection card that they turn in to the human resource department. Employees that identify any target hazards can be publicly recognized for their involvement. The following month, a survey card on a different topic, such as ergonomic hazards, could be distributed. Recognition for participating in such activities will encourage greater employee involvement and an abundance of ideas.

Safety Communication Distribution of a safety and health policy or a risk survey are examples of safety communication efforts. However, as the old cliché goes, communication is the key to success, so even more communication may be required. For instance, communication continued on page 26

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F o r Sa f e t y Sa k e continued from pg 24 regarding whether or not important safety activities are being performed will ensure that the activities are actually performed. Such activities may include timely reporting of injuries and management attendance at training sessions.

Orientation and Training When new employees are hired, the need to make them productive requires that safety orientation be performed quickly. After a quick video and some brief instruction from a supervisor, employees are often put to work without proper knowledge of the risks they face or safe work rules. Orientation should be job-specific and documented. By focusing on job-specific hazards, the orientation can still be performed quickly and may even be more effective. Plus, job-specific training allows for better enforcement of safe work practices. Annual or refresher training can also be made more effective and efficient by developing a training matrix that identifies all the training to be provided by topic and by job title. Again, if the training content is specific to the workplace, the right people can quickly be provided the right information. A safety professional should assist with determining the right topics for the right job titles.

Documented Safe Work Practices It’s important for employees to have a clear understanding of how to accomplish their job requirements safely. Identify, document and distribute both general and job-specific safe work practices. Posting the job-specific safe work practices in the employee’s work area will serve as a great resource for the employee, and as a friendly reminder that safety is an organizational priority. It’s also important to provide all employees with a copy of the general safe work practices, which can be distributed via employee newsletters, posters or bulletin boards.

Safety Program Coordinator While safety should be everyone’s job, it’s a great idea to have an individual that can coordinate and execute the organization’s safety program. This individual should be responsible for continuing safety education, researching, and looking for the latest and greatest in safety. The Safety Program Coordinator should bring what they learn back to the organization and work with other employees to improve

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the program. They can also be the point of contact for all employee safety concerns/suggestions.

Early Return to Work To control workers’ compensation expenses, it is important to bring injured workers back in a productive capacity as quickly as medically appropriate. Employees that transition back to work on modified duty before they are fully recovered have been known to heal faster. Injured worker restrictions, which are provided by the employees’ physician, should never be exceeded. Combined with other cost containment measures, such as wage continuation while the employee is off, an early return to work can reduce the cost of the claim – resulting in a reduced premium. The injured worker should know that the company is concerned about the employees’ recovery. Keep in regular contact with the employee. Stay in touch and stay informed. Discuss alternate jobs with the injured employee and always communicate offers to return to work via certified mail.

Internal Program Verification Your workplace safety program either improves workplace safety or it does not. Either way, performance must be compared against goals at least once a year. Most organizations measure incidents and/or lost work days with a goal to have both decrease when compared to the prior year. While these measures and goals are essential to showing an improvement in workplace safety, it is also important to measure program activities, such as the number of audits or safety committee meetings completed.

OSHA Required Programs & Training There are required OSHA written programs as well as required OSHA training for employers. The requirements will vary from employer to employer based on your business. If you are unsure of your requirements, it might be a good idea to have a safety professional assess your day-to-day operations to let you know what written programs you need, as well as what types of training your employees will need. Not only will this satisfy the requirements of OSHA, but it will also strengthen your safety program, and hopefully reduce workplace injuries.

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continued from pg 30 Nuture Talent, Help People Learn And Improve The right training and development can greatly enhance employee engagement by nurturing talent and helping people to learn new things and improve their performance. Most people want to feel that they are doing a good job and that they are valued by their organization for the part they play. In addition, few people like to remain static in a work environment and prefer to have variety in their work and see development potential in their role. Learning and development provides a way to address all of these human needs and greatly improves employee engagement. Companies who invest in their people through training and development are also viewed more favorably by employees than those in organizations who don’t. However, if training and development is to make a significant impact on employee engagement, employees must see the benefits to themselves of undertaking training activities. This is where many good intentions fall short.

Show The Benefits Organizations who are keen to demonstrate their commitment to their people can sometimes get carried away with the “sheep dip” approach to training – leaving some people confused about the rationale behind attending it. In order to harness the positive effects of training, employees have to see the link between where they are now and where they want to get to and how training is going to bridge this gap.

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…learning and development has never been more important as a means to keep employees engaged and maintain that competitive advantage. It sounds obvious but without this being made explicit, organizations run the risk of training and development being viewed as a chore instead of a reward. The answer is to link training and development to specific objectives; the only way to make this work effectively is for managers to have one-on-one conversations with their people about the purpose of training and what’s in it for them. Asking people what they think they need and setting specific learning objectives is crucial at this stage. Done efficiently, learning and development will then provide the means to motivate and engage employees like never before. People will feel valued for their contribution and they will understand that the organization supports them to be the best that they can be. Developing people really is key to having an engaged workforce and achieving business success.

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Public Outreach OLA had a garden at the Great Big Home and Garden Show at the I-X Center in Cleveland again this year. The show ran from February 2nd to February 10th and was very busy! I would like to thank all of those who helped to create a truly gorgeous garden: • Garden Designer – Chris Meltzer, MLA (Down to Earth Landscaping, Inc.) • Project Manager – Chad Mikin (Mason Structural Steel) • Assistant Project Manager – Corky Lilly (Mason Structural Steel) • Garden Construction Team – Calanni Landscaping, Down to Earth Landscaping, Houk Landscapes, Mason Structural Steel, Wolf Creek Company • Materials & Transportation – Great Big Home and Garden Show, Mason Structural Steel, Tri-R-Stone, Willoway Nurseries, Wolf Creek Company An incredible amount of time and talent went into making our garden look as professional and beautiful as the competition gardens. I would also like to thank everyone that helped to staff the garden during the show. continued on page 38

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Directions continued from pg 36 The garden promoted using a professional landscape contractor as well as OLA members, the Landscape Industry Certified program, our Landscape Ohio! Awards program, and the value of landscape in general. During the show, we gave away thousands of Landscape Ohio! Magazines (which included our membership directory) and thousands of postcards directing show attendees to find a member of the OLA on our consumer website, MyOhioLandscape.com. I would also like to congratulate the students of Auburn Career Center for their amazing garden. They worked diligently under the direction of their instructor, Dave Richards, CLT and Brian Pattie, CLT of the Pattie Group, as well as with other members of the

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LANDSCAPE OPPORTUNITIES Moscarino Outdoor Creations is actively seeking for the most talented professionals in our industry for our rapidly growing maintenance, snow and construction divisions. • Landscape Designer/Architect with CAD Experience • Enhancement Foreman • Lawn Maintenance Foreman • Hardscape Foreman • Account Manager Compensation packages will be tailored for an experienced individual. Valid driver’s license EOE/Drug and Smoke Free Workplace Please fax or email resume to: Fax: 440-235-3744 Email: info@moscarino.net INSIDE SALES PERSON Irrigation Supply is looking to add an inside sales person to our staff. Knowledge of lawn irrigation and landscape lighting, along with basic computer skills are required. Email resume to hobar@irrigationsupply.com or call Bob Hobar at (216) 831-0095.

LANDSCAPE DESIGNER/ESTIMATOR Enviroscapes, Northeast Ohio’s Premier Landscape Company is in need of an additional landscape designer/estimator. Applicant will be working predominately on landscape projects of $100,000+, both residential and commercial. Go to www. growinggood.com for a detailed job description. Immediate opening. We are a non-smoking, drug-free facility. Enviroscapes is an equal opportunity employer. Pre-hire background checks required. GROUNDS CREW The Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland is seeking to fill two (2) full-time positions on the grounds crew. Minimum two years of landscaping and construction skills, including operating equipment, required. Competitive compensation and benefits. Please fax or email resume to: FAX (216) 453-0971; Email info@lakeviewcemetery.com.

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GROWER Davis Tree Farm & Nursery is looking for an experienced grower for our Valley City nursery. We are looking for someone to oversee and assist with the potting crew and plant maintenance. A knowledge of plant diseases and insects is a must. Please contact Melanie at (330) 591-9308. LANDSCAPE FOREMAN Landscape Foreman requires leadership, organization, communication and landscaping skills including hardscape & plantscape. Ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years experience and/or an Associates degree in landscape installation. Individual must have a valid driver’s license and a clean driving record. Drug Free Work Place. We encourage certification and additional job training as needed. Growth opportunities are available. Daily assignments assigned by Landscape Manager consist of, but not limited to: planting trees, shrubs and perennials; proper plant care consisting of fertilizing, pruning, watering; application of fertilizer and herbicide; various equipment operation. The Catholic Cemeteries Association maintains 2600 acres in 18 cemeteries in 5 counties. We offer a dynamic work environment. We treat each employee respectfully and personal growth is encouraged. Competitive compensation, benefits, & pension plan. To apply, email resumes to rmalone@clecem.org or fill out an application at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44105.

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03/13

OLA EDUCATION SERIES

April 9, 2013 8:30 am to 4:00 pm Instructed by and Held at

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