DALLAS – About 200 landscapers descended on Dallas last week to attend GROW! 2016, a three-day conference organized by Marty Grunder.

A key part of the event was a tour of Complete Landsculpture, a $15.5 million, full-service company. So before sunrise Thursday, attendees boarded a half-dozen buses to Complete’s headquarters northwest of the city. Complete’s management team had arranged a full tour of all its major business units and operations, holding nothing back from visitors. Complete has two facilities – it’s headquarters in Dallas and a satellite location in Oklahoma City. It has 195 full-time employees in season, and runs 28 crews. It offers design/build, maintenance, landscape lighting, irrigation, pools and water features and lawn care. The Oklahoma City branch, which employs 25 people and opened 18 years ago, offers snow and ice management. Here’s what they learned!

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