President’s Message BY BRIAN MUNK
Good day all! As we transition from summer into the busy fall planting season, I hope we’ve all had an opportunity to take a deep breath or two. Fall has always been my favorite season. As the summer temperatures begin to reside, the fall planting season ramps up again. We plant in the fall with great expectations for the future. The bulbs we plant this fall are for a great show in the spring and we envision the tree we plant this fall as the one that shades the house in the future.
With those thoughts of the future in mind, I would like to announce this year’s winter conference! This year’s conference will be held Thursday, November 7th, 2019 at the DC Center at 11830 Stonegate Drive in Omaha. This is an exciting change for us this year! We are using a single day format in the fall of the year. We anticipate this date not having as high a possibility of inclimate weather, lower speaker conflicts and well as the single day event will work to keep the costs down. Your Board has been working hard to complete the speaker line up that offers an interesting range of topics. Please visit the website for a better breakdown of this great event.
Fall is also the time to begin looking back on our year. Maybe it’s visiting clients to see how the landscape you installed earlier is performing, or maybe it’s for a fall clean-up of the property. Maybe it’s to begin another project because they liked the first one so well! Regardless the reason, inspecting and reflecting have always been wonderful tools in my inventory. I always strive to visit clients or customers to evaluate how their project is performing. They appreciate that I took the time to visit them and often, this simple act has created additional projects from them as well. As your Board looks back and reflects on this past year’s activities, we look for ways to improve upon what we have done. This year’s summer field day was very well attended and we had some wonderful and encouraging comments on the evaluation forms. These comments are extremely useful and as we move forward, we will be utilizing these evaluation forms to make an even greater experience for everyone.
As we move into the fall season, I hope we all have a wonderful, safe, and profitable rest of the year. I look forward to seeing everyone who can attend at this year’s winter conference.
Best regard,
Brian Munk, NCN, NCA, NNLA President