Ruppert Nurseries recently announced the additions of Ty Trent, area manager, and Bob Burbank, contract administrator.

Trent joins Ruppert’s Maryland landscape management branch. He has over 10 years of industry experience in branch management and landscape maintenance supervision. Trent will be responsible for the sale, renewal and production of the branch’s landscape management work as well as estimating, design, customer satisfaction and personnel training and development.

Burbank joins Ruppert’s Maryland landscape installation branch. He spent 13 years with the Ruppert organization, 1985-1998, as a contract administrator and accountant. Burbank, who has nearly two decades of industry experience in administration, production and project management, will be responsible for overseeing all contract administration as well as managing and measuring the branch’s efficiency.

Ruppert Nurseries, Inc. provides commercial landscape installation and landscape management services in the mid-Atlantic and Atlanta regions and is also a 475-acre wholesale tree nursery in Montgomery County, Md.