Time Management for Landscape Installation
  • Owner of Hughes Nursery & Landscaping
  • Past president of the Horticultural Research Institute and the American Nursery and Landscape Association
  • Author of Systems for Success, focusing on efficiency in landscape installation and nursery production

Landscape installation equipment is central to the overall mission of company procedures. Installation of plants, borders and mulches is shown and described with innovations of equipment that can be accomplished with one-half the labor required when compared to other similar landscape crew operations. Hydraulics, power equipment, space management, time and motions studies have proven the system to be highly productive per employee.

General business aspects cover company image and customer policies. Personnel management and facility layout are shown in detail in order to convey the “family spirit” and “team effort” required to be successful in today’s marketplace.

Dwight Hughes - bio

Dwight Hughes, Jr. is a third generation landscape nurseryman operating a landscape nursery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with two sons, Tom and John. He graduated from Iowa State University in 1970 with a B.S. degree in ornamental horticulture and landscape architecture.

Dwight is past president of the Horticultural Research Institute and the American Nursery and Landscape Association. As an industry speaker, he has made over 100 presentations in 40 states and Canada on efficient landscape management and field production systems. He published a book and video in 1996 titled Systems for Success that is a popular education package on strategies for maximum efficiency in landscape installation and nursery production.

At the local level, Dwight had served on the Boards of Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, Historic Brucemore, Indian Creek Nature Center, Cedar Rapids Rotary, Prairie School Foundation, US Bank, and the Boy Scouts of America.