M.D. Vaden
vadenphotography.com
The landscape industry in Oregon will probably change dramatically in the next 10 years.
The unknown factor is maintenance, which is currently unregulated.
The landscape contractor exam, currently is passed by about 1 out of 10 people. Its like taking 5 college finals all at once. It requires 2 years experience to apply.
The landscape board is also looking for a way to provide an arborist license, to allow most arborists to plant trees as well as the pruning and removal.
The arborist associations out here made a boo-boo when they stuck themselves under the construction contractors board, when the landscape contractors board is what they needed.
What backfired, is they tried to be sneaky, and slip their bill through unnoticed without communicating with various facets of the industry. If they had talked about it, they would have learned that the CCB was not the best option.
Most of the better landscape companies out here are the mid-size ones, where the original principle person is still overseeing the whole operation. Many of the award winning companies are questionable, especially in light of who is dishing out the awards - their own association that makes them pay to enter the awards program (OLCA).
The description of yellow page ads in Portland, indecates that to a significant degree, landscapers are moving into arboriculture, and tree services are advertising irrigation and landscape maintenance.
Pesticide spraying is being eliminated by many small companies, and referred to a few tree or spray services that either specialize, or are big and have a division for spraying.
20 years ago, 1 in 2 landscape people used to offer spraying.
The unknown factor is maintenance, which is currently unregulated.
The landscape contractor exam, currently is passed by about 1 out of 10 people. Its like taking 5 college finals all at once. It requires 2 years experience to apply.
The landscape board is also looking for a way to provide an arborist license, to allow most arborists to plant trees as well as the pruning and removal.
The arborist associations out here made a boo-boo when they stuck themselves under the construction contractors board, when the landscape contractors board is what they needed.
What backfired, is they tried to be sneaky, and slip their bill through unnoticed without communicating with various facets of the industry. If they had talked about it, they would have learned that the CCB was not the best option.
Most of the better landscape companies out here are the mid-size ones, where the original principle person is still overseeing the whole operation. Many of the award winning companies are questionable, especially in light of who is dishing out the awards - their own association that makes them pay to enter the awards program (OLCA).
The description of yellow page ads in Portland, indecates that to a significant degree, landscapers are moving into arboriculture, and tree services are advertising irrigation and landscape maintenance.
Pesticide spraying is being eliminated by many small companies, and referred to a few tree or spray services that either specialize, or are big and have a division for spraying.
20 years ago, 1 in 2 landscape people used to offer spraying.