Pacific Sod has established a new office in Fresno to better serve its customers in central California.
According to Sales Manager Ben Lucas, Pacific Sod of Fresno will provide complete sales and service from Merced to Bakersfield, and all varieties of sod will be available on a daily basis.
Bill Souza, 39, a member of Pacific Sod’s sales team for the past ten years, will manage the office.
A long time resident of Fresno, Souza received his AA degree from Fresno City College and attended Fresno State University where he majored in education. He presently serves on the advisory board for landscaping and ornamental horticulture at Kings River Community College, and teaches a course in turf management.
Souza has been active in both the California Landscape Contractors Association and the California Association of Nurserymen. In CLCA, he was selected Associate Member of the Year in the Fresno Chapter in 1980, and named CLCA Editor of the Year for his work on the chapter’s newsletter.
Pacific Sod of Fresno is located at 5645 West San Madele, Suite 101, in the city of Fresno. Its new telephone number is 209/275-5955.
The appointment of James C. Lindstrom Co., Inc. of Tucker, Georgia as sales representative has been announced by Champion Irrigation Products. Lindstrom will service landscape architects, contractors and retail outlets in the states of Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.
Established in 1974 by Jim Lindstrom, the firm operates a 20,000 square foot buy/sell warehouse in the Stone Mountain Industrial District.
Lindstrom Co. is located at 2040 Steel Dr., Tucker, GA 30084, (404) 939-5369.
Welty Inc. has been named exclusive sales representative for the Irri-Trol line of solid-state controllers in Florida, Georgia and portions of Alabama and Tennessee. The Welty appointment is the result of the recent acquisition of Irri-Trol Manufacturing, Inc. by Carson City, Nevada-based GardenAmerica Corporation, according to Rex Dixon, general manager of GardenAmerica’s Turf Products Division.
Headquartered in Brooksville, Florida, Welty Inc. has served as sales representative for GardenAmerica’s Richdel product line in the southeastern market for more than a decade. In addition to the Richdel product mix of valves, controllers and sprinklers for both residential and commercial application, Welty now will represent Irri-Trol’s family of advanced-design controllers in those markets.
& S Seeds, of Carpinteria, Ca. and San Marcos, Ca. has announced the release of a revised edition of their Seed Selection Guide. The revised Seed Selection Guide is a valuable reference tool for landscape architects, contractors, or anyone involved with erosion control, revegetation and landscape planting from seed. The guide is especially helpful in selecting and matching plant characteristics with specific planting requirements.
This updated version of the Seed Selection Guide covers over 200 plant species which are categorized in eleven different plant characteristics such as height, spread, flower color, growing zone, water requirements, salt tolerance and more. There is also a section on grasses, legumes and wildflower seedmixes.
The First Dimension: The land form. The Second Dimension: Plant material and irrigation. The Third Dimension: Rock. The often misunderstood natural material that affords the texture, mass and stability that makes a project complete.
Kor-Rock would like to help you understand how easy it is to incorporate “The Third Dimension” into your projects.
For those of you unfamiliar with us, Kor-Rock is a unique supply and service organization specializing in rock products and services, including large landscape boulders and placement of these boulders.
Using specialized equipment, KorRock has eliminated the usual headaches involved in using large landscape boulders by reducing the manpower and equipment requirements to a one-man, state-of-the-art system for delivery and placement.
In order to facilitate the use of our services, Kor-Rock offers a simplified pricing system which enables you to determine the exact cost for using landscape boulders in your projects upfront in the cost estimating phase. The Third Dimension package includes information on sizing, pricing, materials, brochure and a complete explanation with examples on how our system works. Our sales representatives will be able to assist you with your questions and meet with you to go over our program that makes estimating the cost of rock an exact science, saving you and your client time and cost overrides.
For more information about KorRock and Third Third Dimension package, please call 1-800-831-7878.
Ocotillo Enterprises, Inc., a nursery services company and wholesale grower located in San Diego County, California, is introducing the first specimen-sized quantities of the fruitless olive tree, Olea europaea Wilsonii.’
This tree is a subcultivar of the popular landscaping tree Olea europaea ‘Manzanillo’ (European Olive). Native to the Mediterranean regions of southern Europe and north Africa, the olive tree has long been a staple for landscaping in the arid regions of the southwestern United States. The lush green, windswept appearance, wide climatic range and drought-tolerance make it adaptable to many applications. The major disadvantage of the trees are long-term maintenance problems caused by prolific fruiting.
The Wilson Fruitless Olive cultivar was first discovered by Richard Wilson as an apparent genetic mutation in a grove of trees being grown for ornamental uses. From the initial discovery, research was conducted that pointed to a tetraploid chromosome structure which prevents the completion of the fruiting process.
The new cultivar differs from its ‘Manzanillo’ parent in several respects. The fruitless nature of the tree enhances its application in intricate landscape applications such as golf courses, walkways, plazas, and areas where maintenance costs are a factor. Further, the tree has a lusher foliage, more upright appearance with a silver/ green tint to the leaf surface, and appears to be slightly more coldhearty than the ‘Manzanillo.’
The initial crop of specimen trees were field-grown in the inner-coastal range of southern California. Ocotillo Enterprises has boxed the first of these trees, yielding a range of 24 in., 30 in., and 36 in. boxed specimens. The 1987 harvest will be predominantly 30 in. and 36 in. sizes along with a substantial number of 42 in. boxed trees.
For further information on the tree, its application, availability, or further production, please contact Jeff Loevenguth or Larry Wilhelms at Ocotillo Enterprises, Inc., at (714) 494-1089.
