LMP's Smarz earns Certified Horticulture Professional designation

TAMPA, Fl. — Landscape Maintenance Professionals has announced that Rick Smarz, the branch manager for the company’s Central Florida division, has earned the designation of Certified Horticulture Professional.

The Florida Nursery Growers and Landscape Association, which designs the curriculum and certification program, considers the FCHP designation to be “the industry's only standard for measuring horticulture knowledge on everything from plant and pest identification to landscape management."   

Smarz said the designation enables him to promote the landscape industry as a profession and provide training and knowledge. Now, Smarz said he can instruct his team so each landscape maintained by Landscape Maintenance Professionals receives the proper care and attention to enable it to thrive.