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Power Lawn and Garden Equipment Industry Worth $20 billion by 2017 Says a New Research Report at RnRMarketResearch.com

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) October 03, 2013

This study analyzes the world power lawn and garden equipment industry. It presents historical demand data for 2002, 2007, and 2012, and forecasts for 2017 and 2022 by product (e.g., lawnmowers, turf and grounds equipment, trimmers and edgers), power source (internal combustion engine, electric), market (residential, commercial), world region, and major country. The study also considers market environment factors, details industry structure, evaluates company market share, and profiles industry players.

World demand to rise over 4% annually through 2017

Worldwide demand for power lawn and garden equipment is forecast to rise more than four percent per year through 2017 to well over $20 billion. Growth in equipment sales will be supported by a recovery in the massive US market that will lead to increased spending on durable consumer goods and landscaping services. Demand will also rebound in Western Europe as the construction of new housing climbs following the Euro zone economic troubles in 2012. In developing areas of the world, particularly the Asia/Pacific region, sales of outdoor power equipment will be stimulated by households that will increasingly seek out multifamily residential properties with associated lawns and/or gardens, spurring growth in commercial lawn care equipment.

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US, Canada, Western Europe to remain dominant markets

While power lawn and garden equipment sales in developing nations will record the largest advances in percentage terms through 2017, the US, Canada and Western Europe will continue to account for the vast majority of world demand. Consumers in these developed nations have high income levels that allow for discretionary purchases like power lawn and garden equipment, and landscaping services that utilize this equipment. Additionally, countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and the US have strong residential lawn and garden care cultures, and the lion’s share of golf courses worldwide are located in these three nations.

Turf and grounds equipment to be fastest growing

Lawnmowers will continue to account for the biggest portion of sales among all product groups, owing primarily to the large number of homeowners that possess and maintain their own lawns in the US, Canada and Western Europe. In these areas, a lawnmower is considered an essential appliance for most homeowners, as these products are the only way to efficiently manicure a larger lawn. Turf and grounds equipment is expected to post the fastest market gains, driven by recoveries in the professional landscaping industries in many developed nations. Furthermore, a continuing trend toward urbanization of developing nations, including those in Asia and South America, will boost the use of public parks and other green spaces, increasing maintenance needs and bolstering demand for related equipment. Sales of aftermarket parts and attachments will rise at a slower rate than demand for new equipment, as economic growth in the US and Western Europe will boost per capita incomes, and prompting many users to discard older units that require repair and maintenance.

Commercial applications to experience fastest gains

Residential demand for power lawn and garden equipment will continue to account for the majority of all sales globally through 2017. However, demand for outdoor power equipment for commercial applications will grow at a faster pace going forward, fueled primarily by a recovery in the professional landscaping industries in industrialized nations. As technologies for batteries and electric motors continue to improve and the use of large battery-powered equipment becomes more economically viable, market expansion for electric equipment will outpace that for internal combustion engine-powered machinery. The growing popularity of robotic mowers will also contribute to gains in electric outdoor power equipment.

Company Profiles

Profiles global players including Deere, Husqvarna, MTD Products, STIHL Toro.

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In keeping with Atascadero’s Centennial Celebration, this year’s Autumn Garden Festival on Oct. 12 will be held at the historic five-acre Portola Inn, where apricot trees planted by E.G. Lewis, founder of Atascadero, still yield a plentiful harvest.

The inn is the perfect outdoor classroom for the Atascadero Mutual Water Company’s festival to celebrate sustainable, low-water landscaping.

Beginning with a continental breakfast at 9 a.m., registered attendees will hear seven 30-minute presentations during the day, with breaks for exhibits, walks and picnics throughout the spacious oak-canopy grounds of the inn.

Topics include a history of urban farming, rainwater harvest, backyard beekeeping and vermicomposting (worm composting), to name a few. The presentations come alive on the grounds, where owner Tom O’Malley has already incorporated many of the day’s topics on his expansive property.

O’Malley has created rainwater and graywater collection areas on his slightly sloping grounds, allowing for plenty of water for thirsty plants such as kiwis. Handicap-accessible paths in switchback designs slow down the flow of rainwater and direct it to catch basins.

As guests meander down these paths, they are treated to a variety of mature plantings that have created their own microenvironment under the oaks. O’Malley knows each plant and system intimately, having purchased this property next door to his childhood home 19 years ago.

“I remember helping my neighbors pick the apricots at age 7,” he recalls.

Going back 100 years, in 1913 E.G. Lewis, the founder of Atascadero, had a vision of sustainable landscaping. His idea was that colony residents would have one- to twoacre parcels where they could grow enough food for their family, with room for a small orchard, vegetables and chickens.

The lots in Garden Farms, River Garden and throughout the community reflect this. Lewis’ advertisements focused on the advantage of living in the city while having enough property to farm at home. He chose a quote from Abraham Lincoln to adorn the entry of the now-restored City Hall: “The most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil.”

“Lincoln’s quote is applicable to the theme of the event, as we want local homeowners to know they can have beautiful and productive gardens with less water use,” said Jaime Lien Hendrickson, conservation manager at the water company, who started this event in 2006.

“After the drought of 2003, the Mutual Water Co. realized the need to educate homeowners about how to lower water needs,” she said.

This autumn festival has became the vehicle for that message, and along with a rebate for lawn replacement and focus on drought-tolerant plants, John Neil, general manager of the water company, reports that water use has dropped from a 10-year average of 2 billion gallons per year to 1.8 billion gallons in 2012.

Neil, Hendrickson and O’Malley share a common goal for the educational event: “We want locals to be empowered to incorporate these ideas in their home gardens, and to know that drought-tolerant does not just mean rocks and cactus,” Neil said. “With over 150 low-water plants to choose from, they can have a new and beautiful garden with lower water use and a lower water bill as an added bonus.”

The event promises to be informative and inspirational for the 100 who register to attend. If this sounds appealing to you, use the information on the sidebar to register right away, as space is limited and the event may sell out.

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There’s a story Margaret Orr likes to tell about the genesis of her garden: “We had just bought the house,” the longtime WDSU-TV meteorologist recalled. “I was a young thing, had one child (her daughter, Kathleen, now in her 20s) and was pregnant with my boy (Alden, also now in his 20s). “This little man — Jake Noack, who was in his 70s — was walking by and said, ‘I love your garden.’ And I looked at him and I looked at my house, and I said, ‘I don’t have a garden.’ And he said, ‘I know, that’s the point: You need a garden.’ “

Feast with the Stars

What: Margaret Orr will receive Parkway Partners’ Green Spirit Award at its Feast with the Stars patron party. She is being honored for her support of community gardening and beautification projects. Feast with the Stars is Parkway Partners‘ annual fundraising gala.

When: The patron party will be Oct. 10, 6 to 8 p.m, and the Feast with the Stars jazz brunch gala will be Oct. 13, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: The patron party will be held at Callan Contemporary Art Gallery, 518 Julia St. The jazz brunch gala will be held at Gallier Hall.

Tickets: $75 for the jazz brunch and $125 for both the patron party and the jazz brunch at www.parkwaypartnersnola.org or 504.620.2224.

From that encounter grew a long, fruitful relationship with gardening, one she has carried privately and publicly via her former gardening segments on WDSU’s morning show and, more recently, her Twitter feed. Today, the gardens at Orr’s Lakefront area home are a testament to that abiding love, which she says brings her in touch with the circle of life.

“To me, gardening brings you closer to God,” she said. “You see life and death and rebirth in the world. That’s why I love butterflies. It’s the rebirth and the changes we go through.”

Orr’s garden has changed considerably since she and her husband bought the property 26 years ago.

“I had three yucca plants in the front, and they were yuck. I hated them,” she said.

Noack, Orr’s neighbor who gave her a gentle kick in the pants about the need for landscaping (he has since died), had received several home-garden awards over the years. He offered to help her create her first garden. They went to a nursery together, where the salesperson asked Orr what kinds of plants she liked.

“I said, ‘I don’t know,'” Orr remembered, laughing. “I didn’t know anything about gardening.”

But garden they did. “We put out the dirt, we planted the plants, and I was addicted.”

At the time, around 1985, Orr was co-host of WDSU’s morning show, “Breakfast Edition.” Eager to learn more about her new hobby and share her lessons with the morning viewers, she began interviewing gardeners, landscapers and other agricultural experts for the recurring segment “Margaret’s Garden.”

“I did them once a week, and that’s how I learned about gardening,” she said, naming experts such as horticulturist Melinda Taylor, who has worked for Walt Disney World and the New Orleans Botanical Garden at City Park, garden columnist Dan Gill and Paul Soniat, director of the City Park botanical garden. “I learned what works.”

The lessons included basic landscape maintenance, information about growing seasons and general care. Taylor taught her how to prevent weeds by placing sheets of cardboard between plants and covering with pine straw. Another expert taught her about roses and the power of compost.

Today, she uses a row of fuchsia Knockout roses to create a bold line between the rear of the front lawn and the front porch, where Orr sits every morning sipping her coffee, tracking the weather and interacting with her followers on Twitter. She also makes her own nutrient-rich compost and turns fall leaves into mulch by storing them in ventilated bags in a corner of her backyard.

Though her television work Orr also learned specifics on plant varieties that helped inform her personal gardening decisions. Taylor introduced Orr to the distinctive Natchez crape myrtle with white blossoms and a two-toned, peeling bark. Orr uses them to line and provide shade to the right side of her property, front and back.

Severin Dowdy, who accompanied Orr on several trips to Longue Vue House and Gardens, helped her pick out a “bloodgood” Japanese maple and sago palm for the corner bed fronting the street.

Orr learned what flowers attract butterflies (pentas, purple coneflower, lavender, salvia, zinnia, ageratum and black-eyed Susans, among others) and hummingbirds. “They love red and orange,” Orr wrote in an e-mail. “The tubular plants are the best. Plant salvia, zinnias, hibiscus . . . foxglove, nicotiana, to name a few.”

She also learned what she doesn’t like. For instance, “I hate begonias,” she said. “They attract snails. How do you get rid of snails? You put out little saucers of beer, and they drown. I’m not doing that to the stupid snails. I am not going to kill a snail, OK? I’m just not going to do it. So I hate begonias.”

Though Orr absorbed as much knowledge as she could through her television work, her approach to gardening through the years has been “trial and error,” she said. Her front yard has a garden-heavy layout, with beds along the perimeter and a large centerpiece bed brimming with color and variation.

Early on she adopted a palette of pinks, blues and purples, which she hypes up during the flower-heavy seasons, early fall and spring. The colors are concentrated in the large, octagonal central bed in the front lawn, which features the conical blossoms of pink Angelonia, bulbous pink pentas — “A great summer plant,” Orr said — cheery purple aster and more, all bustling in crowded concord.

A yellow rose bush provides height to the center and serves as a nod to Orr’s Texas roots. (Her parents and grandparents lived in Bryan, Texas.) A simple fountain sits in the middle of the bed, hugged by a rogue red salvia that Orr gladly allowed to come up.

“I love volunteers,” she said, referring to plants that drop into landscapes via wind, wildlife or other carriers. Orr likes to use as many of them as she can, sometimes allowing them to stay in place or moving them to a better spot.

“I will have rudbeckias (black-eyed Susans) growing in the grass and dig them up and put them somewhere else, because the seeds just go everywhere.”

Orr’s love of serendipitous finds extends beyond plants. Her side yard features a metal butterfly chair, which a neighbor had bought at a garage sale but decided not to keep. Orr was happy to give it a home. The cherub statue in the side yard bed was her grandmother’s.

The side yard also features boxwoods and mondo grass. “I planted them in Xs and Os, because they’re hugs and kisses from God,” she said.

The beds along the left side of the yard continue the pink, purple and blue theme with torenia (also sometimes called wishbone flowers) in all those colors, purple cone flower and purple salvia.

In the spring, she’ll plant poppies, foxglove, bachelor’s buttons, dianthus, pink snapdragons and irises — one of her favorites. On the porch, fuchsia and purple bougainvilleas sit in planters, while spindly lemongrass softens the transition from the porch and front yard to the side walkway.

Just as Orr encouraged “Breakfast Edition” viewers to send photos of their own gardens to be featured on the show’s “Garden of the Month” segment, Orr receives countless images of fans’ outdoor landscapes via Twitter. Interacting with people, fans or experts, who love nature — be it the weather or a pretty flower — is one of her greatest pleasures.

“Sitting on the porch this morning with the boys (her dog, Bleu, and her daughter Grace’s dog, Sunny) running around the yard, I saw a hummingbird, Gulf Fritillary and swallowtail butterflies, a female cardinal and a couple of blue jays,” Orr wrote in an e-mail. “There was a bit of a breeze playing music in the wind chime. The humidity was low, the sun was shining, and it was just a beautiful morning. This is where I Tweet in the morning. It’s my little piece of paradise.”

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Parkway Partners Green Spirit award

A longtime supporter of community landscaping and beautification projects, Orr will receive Parkway Partners’ Green Spirit award on Thursday, Oct. 10, as part of its Feast with the Stars patron party.

Orr is being honored for her work with “neutral ground and garden projects, including the sunken gardens on Canal Boulevard, community and schoolyard gardens,” Jean Fahr, Parkway Partners executive director, said in an email.

The neutral ground adoption program was just beginning around 1989 when Orr “walked door to door on Canal Boulevard with Parkway Partners’ founder Flo Schornstein,” Fahr said. “Today the neutral ground is adopted by the Lakeview Civic Improvement Association and its recent restoration was spearheaded by Al Petrie and the LCIA Green Space committee after Hurricane Katrina.”

Orr also was a supporter of Parkway Partners’ schoolyard garden program, Sow Grow.

Prudential Global Volunteer Day at Hillside School in Montclair

BY Georgette Gilmore  |  Wednesday, Oct 02, 2013 5:00pm  | 
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A call out to all members of the community large and small! Go out and help get Hillside School’s outdoor classroom be ready for planting and help plant bulbs and shrubs this Saturday, October 5, at its Prudential Global Volunteer Day.

Last year Hillside school held a plant sale sponsored by the Montclair Garden Club to raise funds for the garden and landscaping. Combined with grant money from the District Initiative Gardens (DIGS) program,  the school a great start. Prudential gives grant money for  schools who meet their criteria and having enough volunteers is part of this process.

Hooly Korus is the  Hillside Garden/Grounds chair. She explains:

Our goal is to refurbish garden beds created years ago by parents. Sadly the beds have not been maintained and have become wild as well as overgrown. The goal is to create a sustainable fenced in outdoor classroom  where the children can learn and experience everything from planting, understanding compost, measuring volume, community giving, etymology and kitchen science. Our biggest challenge is move the beds around, remove struggling plants and create a space that can be sustainable for years to come. We are staying away from plants that are in their prime from July-August when the school is empty. Swapping squash for tomatoes and lilyturf  for lilies.

This project has been a labor of love and I have had a wonderful dedicated group of volunteers who have given their time and their muscle countless hours this past spring and this fall. I have also had great support from both the Hillside staff, PTA as well as Building and Grounds.

Last year, more than 28,000 people participated in 750 Global Volunteer Day projects in the United States and 10 other countries where Prudential has a business presence. Check out the slideshow from  last year’s Hillside School Prudential Global Volunteer Day.

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