February 27, 2013
Forty years of success

To celebrate Landscape Ontario's 40th anniversary, Landscape Ontario magazine is publishing a year-in-review spread each month, beginning with 1998.

Information about the association's first 25 years can be found in the comprehensive 25th Anniversary Yearbook, produced in 1998.


1998
Pink flamingos, a new trade show, and the start of an argument about pesticides that won't soon go away.
1999
Congress goes on despite reduced attendance to due record snowfall, WSIB rates rise out of control, and an LO past president gets the ear of the Ontario premier
2000
Garden Expo is born, LO hires a Pesticide Information Coordinator, and a solution to reduce rising WSIB premiums is on the way.
2001
Lawn care industry raises concerns about supreme court decision, and trade show attendance continues upward trend.