Landscape Management, May 2018

profit centers educate Plant health care Systems owners Ian maguire left and Keith Weyrick right work hard to educate both their clients and their technicians Testing before treatment LANDSCAPEMANAGEMENT NET May 2018 18 Photo Plant health care systems turf ornamental care a look inside one companys thoughtful approach to turf and ornamental care By Sarah WeBB newsfeed Spring touch franchiSe Spring Touch Lawn Pest Control based in St Peter Minn is expanding its brand and is registered to franchise in most of the U S The company serves more than 10000 customers in a 60 mile radius in and around southern Minnesota The franchise offering features a business concept in the lawn care landscape services industry with an affordable entry threshold said Spring Touch weed man expandS Weed Man USa continues to expand across the U S with 29 new territories added in 2017 and a total of three new signed franchise agreements in the Continued on page 20 first three months of 2018 It expects to add 37 new territories totaling 561 territories by years end and surpass 100 million in annual sales revenue for the second straight year w hen Keith Weyr ick patronized his local plant diagnostic clinic in 2012 samples in tow he didnt realize one of the clinics employees Ian Maguire would become his future business partner Almost six years later the pair coowns Plant Health Care Systems of South Florida a Miami based plant care company thats grown into a 17 million organization since its founding in 2013 I would take samples to the clinic where Maguire worked and we struck up a friendship says Weyrick who at the time was working for a large turf and ornamental care firm We would always talk about the industry Around that time Weyrick and Maguire were both looking for an employment change Deciding the timing was right they partnered up There werent many knowledgeable people in the industry at that time Weyrick says Most of the spray guys are really good with grass but not so much with the plants A budding compAny Weyrick and Maguire initially began their careers in separate worlds as a second generation nurseryman and a photographer respectively Weyrick got his start working for his familys company Quail Roost Nursery and later owned a natural lawn care franchise Maguire began his career as a digital photographer working at the University of Floridas Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Tropical Research and Education Center I started to learn about plants through the lens of a camera Maguire says Through visual art I gained the knowledge that allowed me to eventually create connections in the plant world He adds that his 15 year tenure as a photographer allowed him to work in biological science programs and eventually led him to the job in a diagnostic clinic where he first met Weyrick The pairs first client was Maguires friend a landscaper who performed work at an exclusive Key Largo community He had been unhappy with his previous application company and decided to give Plant Health Care Systems a chance Plant Health Care Systems has since grown to 10 crew members serving more than 700 clients It serves a 100 percent residential clientele Complete lawn and plant care packages make up 90 percent of its services while the remaining 10 percent is comprised of either plant care or lawn care packages The company also offers add on services such as aeration The ApproAch Part of the teams success stems from