Commercial Landscaping Blog for The San Jose | Bay Area, CA

Pedestrian Safety is a concerning subject when it comes to commercial landscape maintenance these days. They want to ensure that their apartment complexes, office landscaping and corporate headquarters are being maintained in a safe manor for tenants, visitors and the staff.

In all honesty, commercial landscape management and trees must be maintained for there safety and in some cases may create hazards in corporate landscaping when they are adjacent to parking areas, walk ways and building structures.

Commercial Landscape Management Improves Safety

Let’s review some of the common pit falls and how to manage them.

When navigating through a property, trying to travel from a visitor parking lot to a building entrance, do you ever wonder if the landscaping was designed in a user friendly way?

Chances are, your commercial landscape service is high on your priority list, and rightfully so. Maintaining high maintenance landscaping is a budget expense that seems to creep up, some of the costs include sprinkler and irrigation services, landscape installation services and commercial tree care just to name a few. In spite of the many reasons renovation gets pushed off, there is supporting evidence that property managers and building owners should consider the cost of upgrading older high maintenance landscaping.

Commercial lawn maintenance is more than just mowing lawns, and it requires some upfront landscape planning to get it done right and on time. Their are various techniques that can be employed in order to reduce soil compaction caused by foot traffic and commercial lawn care equipment. However, sometimes the smaller less expensive methods bring about the most value for your lawn improvements.

Read on for our commercial lawn maintenance tips..

[1] Property Management Insider by Joanna Ellis; October 23, 2014

You contract with a fantastic commercial landscape service. Congratulations! Your competitor has one, or two. You have the latest, greatest, extraordinarily landscape curb appeal? So does your competition. Well, your leasing office has beautiful flowers in designer pots at the main entrance, stylish, and the property is setup with the best corporate landscape service. Have you visited your competition lately? They’re equally the same. OK. You have the greatest landscape service money can buy; your contractor has won numerous awards and achievements and it goes on and on.

An HOA Landscape Service with water conservation in mind isn't always as easy to find, the good news is their are simple techniques to curb your water use without killing your trees and plants! With smart landscaping practices, regardless if its a commercial office landscape service or not, the right service can beat the drought, reduce water bills and provide a happy healthy landscape too. Read on for our Top 10 Tips

An aesthetically pleasing HOA landscape service can improve the overall look of your property. However, no property manager or owner wants to spend a fortune to re-landscape a property. Additionally, many property managers simply do not the budget to perform frequent landscape capital improvements.

Whether you manage individual building or multi complex buildings, there are cost effective ways to add interest and design to a property without costing yourself extensive time and money. Even small touches to the landscape can go a long way.

Save yourself the time by keeping the design simple and cost efficient without the added headache. It’s possible to get the pizzazz back into your commercial landscape service without breaking the bank. Consider the 5 step process below.

A  commercial grounds maintenance company will consider the plantings around your properties building perimeter, helping to make a big difference in many ways. Having the right plants to tolerate the variable temperatures throughout the year is part of the equation for great landscaping but plant material that is interfering with window views, walk way and crowding out the others is another factor to consider. Planting the right combination of foliage and plants will ultimately impact your landscaping design one way or the other. The real challenge for most commercial properties is deciding on the right balance of plants that can tolerate the variable conditions.

How to Get The Most From Your Commercial Lawn Service

A great Commercial Lawn Maintenance Company provides more than mowing, blowing  and moving on to the next property. If you want to have an exceptional open green space and a solidified relationship with your commercial landscape company you need to keep reading on.

Water costs continue to plague the bay area which drives the cost of an HOA Landscape Management, and who knows what the cost of water will be in the next 10 years. There's one thing for sure, the cost will not go down. With many water agencies requiring price increases to justify future infrastructure, do you think these changes will bring about lower water cost?  Think out your options, because you haven’t looked at the newest commercial landscape maintenance trends available.

We’ve all seen the commercial lawn maintenance; that need excessive amounts of water, requiring a large amount of fertilizer and maintenance. Or the broken sprinkler heads that shoot the geyser of water high into the sky, watering everything but the lawn. Beautiful variations of contrasting colors of rock and fairly sparse plantings can evoke the effect of a healthy landscape that’s soft on the eyes. Planned and installed correctly, a property can have a beautiful and long-term landscape that can potentially reduce outside water costs by up to 50%.