Landscape Installation Buyers' Guide

<I>Lawn & Landscape</I> presents its first Landscape Installation Buyers' Guide, which identifies some key suppliers of materials for installing retaining walls, lighting, edging and water feature

LANDSCAPE EDGING

Curv-Rite Inc.
3603 N. Main St.
Wayland, MI 49348
800-366-2878
www.curv-rite.com

Oly-Ola Sales Inc.
124 E. St. Charles Rd.
Villa Park, IL 60181
800-334-4647
www.olyola.com

Permaloc Aluminum Edging
13505 Barry St.
Holland, MI 49424
800-356-9660
www.permaloc.com

Valley View Industries
13834 S. Kostner Ave.
Crestwood, IL 60445
708-597-0885
www.valleyviewind.com

LIGHTING

California Landscape Lighting
31260 Cedar Valley Dr.
Westlake Village, CA 91362
800-457-0710
www.callite.com

FX Luminaire
6118 Nancy Ridge Dr.
San Diego, CA 92121
800-688-1269
www.fxl.com

Hadco Inc.
PO Box 128, 100 Craftway
Littlestown, PA 17340
717-359-7131
www.hadcolighting.com

Kichler Landscape Lighting
7711 E. Pleasant Valley Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44131
800-659-9000 ext. 6314
www.kichler.com

Pop Light, Division of Aqua-Lawn Inc.
242 Kinds Highway Cutoff
Fairfield, CT 06430
203-335-5666
www.poplight.com

Ruud Lighting Inc.
9201 Washington Ave.
Racine, WI 53406
800-236-7000
www.ruudlighting.com

Vista Professional Outdoor Lighting
1625 N. Surveyor Ave.
Simi Valley, CA 93063
800-766-8478
www.vistapro.com

RETAINING WALLS

Arborlock
9205 SW 130th St.
Miami, FL 33176
305-378-6153
www.arborlock.com

ICD Corp.
3934 N. Ridgefield Circle
Milwaukee, WI 53211
800-394-4066
www.selecticd.com

Pave Tech Inc.
PO Box 576
Prior Lake, MN 55372
800-728-3832
www.pavetech.com

Paveloc Industries Inc.
8302 S. Rte. 23
Marengo, IL 60152
800-590-2772
www.paveloc.com

Presto Products Co.
PO Box 2399, 670 N. Perkins St.
Appleton, WI 54912
800-548-3424
www.prestogeo.com

Versa-Lok Retaining Wall Systems
6348 Hwy. 36, Ste. 1
Oakdale, MN 55128
800-770-4525
www.versa-lok.com

WATER FEATURES

Aqua Control Inc.
201 Walnut St.
Peru, IL 61354
800-377-0019
www.aquacontrolinc.com

Aquascape Designs
1130 Carolina Dr., C
West Chicago, IL 60185
630-231-3113
www.aquascapedesigns.com

Otterbine Barebo Inc.
3840 Main Road East
Emmaus, PA 18049
800-237-8837

LANDSCAPE EDGING

Curv-Rite Inc.
Curv-Rite manufactures aluminum lawn edgings and paver restraints. The aluminum edging is available in four colors and a variety of sizes and thicknesses. All products include a patented telescoping connection, which runs throughout each piece, helping to speed up installation. Curv-Rite also produces Stable Edge paver restraint, a heavy duty paver that can be used for both commercial and residential installation. Stable Edge can flex to a 30-inch diameter for curvilinear projects.

Oly-Ola Sales Inc.
Oly-Ola Sales produces landscape edgings and paver restraints designed for residential or commercial projects. The company offers low-profile or traditional round top edgings in eight styles. Oly-Ola’s newest design is Edge-Keeper for water garden pond liners. The edging allows plants or turf to grow up to the pond’s edge, or the product can be used for pavers next to the pond.

Permaloc Aluminum Edging
Since 1983, Permaloc has offered aluminum landscape edging and restraint systems. Permaloc manufactures commercial and residential grades of landscape edging, including L-shaped, flexible paver restraint; semi-rigid, L-shaped maintenance strip; L-shaped asphalt restraint; and L-shaped athletic surface restraint.

Valley View Industries
For more than three decades, Valley View has offered Black Diamond edging to landscape professionals. All Valley View edging systems are UV-protected and manufactured with high-grade polyethylene. Valley View also manufactures Diamond-Lok paver brick edgings and other landscape products.


LIGHTING

California Landscape Lighting
California Landscape Lighting is a national distributor of landscape lighting and supplies. Staff members are experienced in all areas of landscape lighting, including design, installation and troubleshooting.

FX Luminaire
For the past 10 years, FX Luminaire has manufactured architectural-grade exterior lighting components engineered for industry professionals to specify and install. FX Luminaire lighting fixtures and transformers are UL 1838 listed, and components are constructed of 304 stainless steel, 6061 T6 aluminum alloy, copper and brass. FX also applies TGIC powder coat finish to its products.

Hadco Inc.
Hadco is an ISO9001 registered company known for innovative, high-quality lighting products and outstanding service. Hadco offers a complete line of low-voltage and line voltage residential and commercial landscape and underwater lighting products under the brand names NightLife and Bronzelite, and decorative HID and site lighting under the brand name Hadco.

Kichler Landscape Lighting
Kichler manufactures a line of professional grade, 12- and 120-volt landscape lighting and accessories. Kichler also provides education and training to help contractors add landscape lighting to their design/maintenance businesses.

Pop Light, Division of Aqua-Lawn Inc.
Pop Light’s landscape lighting fixtures automatically recede into the ground when they are not in use. Newly redesigned fixtures include the updated PL2000-ML path light and SL3000-DL directional fixtures. The company has also introduced the PL2025-CD path light, which uses a cone-shaped diffuser, and the PL2035-FL fluorescent fixtures. The new fluorescent fixtures are available in path light and directional styles. All fixtures and styles are available in 12- and 120-volt configurations, except the PL2035, which is 12 volt only.

Ruud Lighting Inc.
Ruud Lighting’s product line includes line- and low-voltage luminaires. Available finishes include black, white and verde, and some models are available in solid brass. The low-voltage line includes choices of path, area and directional luminaires and a variety of MR16, PAR36 and fluorescent lamp choices. Line-voltage offerings include directional and sealed-well lights for incandescent, fluorescent and HID. Exclusive to Ruud Lighting is a selection of outdoor track heads UL-listed for wet locations.

Vista Professional Outdoor Lighting
Vista Professional Outdoor Lighting manufactures low-voltage landscape lighting fixtures, transformers and accessories for landscape architects, electrical contractors, consultants and engineers.


RETAINING WALLS

Arborlock
Arborlock manufactures a protective collar for trees and palms to aid in bracing. The company’s Web site features a video demo of the product.

ICD Corp.
ICD’s Stonewall Select retaining walls provide the natural look of hewn stone in a stackable, mortar-free wall system. Steps, 90-degree corners and landscape lighting can be incorporated into wall designs. Free downloads, including CAD details, an installation manual, grid chart and more are available on ICD’s Web site.

Pave Tech Inc.
Pave Tech's Pave Edge paver restraint system is a self-supporting edge retraint system designed exclusively for pavers. The edging is made of a strong PVC compound and is invisible when in place. The Pave Edge system comes in 10-foot-long sections that are both rigid and flexible for straight or curved edges.

Paveloc Industries Inc.
Paveloc Industries manufactures interlocking paving stones and Creta Stone segmental retaining walls. Paving stones are available in 16 standard shapes and 15 standard colors, in addition to custom colors. Creta Stone is a tumbled concrete retaining wall, which creates the appearance of a random pattern, natural stone wall, and is manufactured in three different sizes. The Creta Stone retaining wall is split face on both sides, allowing construction of a free-standing wall. The wall is available in seven standard colors. Paveloc Industries serves distributors and contractors in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri and Iowa.

Presto Products Co.
Presto provides solutions to soil stabilization and porous pavement. The Geoblock porous pavement system is a series of interlocking polyethylene paving units designed to provide turf protection and load support for emergency vehicle access lanes, auxiliary parking and other applications. The Geoweb cellular confinement system is an expandable polyethylene, honeycomb-like structure used to confine unstable soils, sands or gravel. The Geoweb system provides solutions to slope and channel protection, load support and earth retention problems.

Versa-Lok Retaining Wall Systems
Versa-Lok retaining wall systems are installed without mortar and require no concrete footings. Versa-Lok offers design flexibility, and one standard unit is used to assemble straight and curved walls, corners and steps. Concrete units accommodate geogrid soil reinforcement. Versa-Lok units are environmentally safe and their split face texture complements natural or architectural settings.


WATER FEATURES

Aqua Control Inc.
Aqua Control Inc. manufactures floating aerators and fountains from ½ hp to 25 hp in 24 spray patterns. All motors are water cooled to reduce maintenance and oil spills. The new horizontal units can be installed in ponds only 20 inches deep. The standard series units provide deep suction to promote thorough aeration and circulation. Lighting packages and UL-listed controls are available. Aqua Control also distributes ClearAway and WasteAway, microbial products that eliminate nutrients in ponds and lakes that can cause unsightly results.

Aquascape Designs
Aquascape Designs is a wholesale manufacturer and distributor of the Aquascape Designs Ecosystem and patented filtration pond products. The company produces complete, ready-to-assemble pond kits. There are 20 products with a 20-step construction process.

Otterbine Barebo Inc.
Otterbine Barebo has been aerating ponds and lakes for more than 40 years and offers a product line that includes surface spray and sub surface aeration systems, diffused aeration system and water treatment products. Concept2 surface spray aerators are manufactured of stainless steel and thermoplastics.

Pond Supplies of America Inc.
Pond Supplies distributes professional pond kits based on the PondSweep skimmer/PuriFalls filtration system. The company’s latest catalog, available for free by calling 630-553-0033, includes all the parts necessary for building water gardens. The catalog also includes information on pump and skimmer selection. Pond Supplies has warehouses in Chicago, Ill., Los Angeles, Calif., and Pittsburgh, Pa., and ships nationwide.

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