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

Everyone knows that its cool in the shade and trees can reduce energy costs if placed correctly. It’s popular to plant evergreen trees on the Northward facing walls of a building.

Plants and Vines located next to a hot south or west side wall can help insulate a building from the hot temperatures of the sun in the summer and winter months. Planting shrub and tree barriers can also direct cool wind from entering buildings by reducing cold drafts at entry points.

The plantings around your condominium and hoa landscaping can make a big difference in many ways. Having the right plants to tolerate the cold weather is part of the equation for great foundation plants 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 commercial landscape design one way or the other. The real challenge for most condominium landscaping is deciding on the right balance of plants that can tolerate the cold and fit into your design.

Retail and Commercial properties are very noticeable during the day light hours. Monument Signs and frontage are clean and very visible. Lawn areas are green and vibrant. Flowers and Plants are swagger with beautiful colors under the sun. Walkways and architectural lines flow. In daylight hours your property looks great. But does it show well at Night?

There are 5 New Trends justifing the cost of expensive annuals.Come fall, winter, spring and summer. It turns out the talk is about vibrant, colorful annuals planted in high interest areas and with bright cool colors.

Conscious about reducing your carbon footprint? Switch to a sustainable commercial landscaping company. Maintaining an eco-friendly garden is an effective way to boost your environmental responsiveness. 

Read our easy ways to reduce your carbon footprint through water-efficient landscaping.  

Keeping your tenants happy and satisfied creates happy long lasting customer retention, especially with retail, office buildings and community spaces. Happy customers will stay and customer retention will keep your spaces occupied for long periods of time. There are many correlations between average and fantastic commercial landscape maintenance that is trending. Beautiful landscaping creates an opportunistic value for your tenants to rave about your property when it comes to beautiful well maintained landscaping; as a matter of fact investing into your landscaping provides economic benefits that far exceed your costs because of the long term retention that boosts your leasing rates bringing in large sums of revenue. 

What are you doing to reduce water consumption on your corporate campus landscaping? In the bay area, although we have received some sporadic rainfall, this winter has been relatively dry. From reduced snowpack in the Sierra’s to low water reserves in lakes and reservoirs, in California, the lack of rainfall is a concerning matter, especially for Bay area water supplies. The California’s Department of Water Resources is urging businesses and residences state wide to reduce water use by 20 percent and have communicated that despite the fact that we have reduced our water footprint by 20%, the cost of water will continue to rise. Here are some ways you can help to conserve water usage and better your commercial grounds maintenance.

How to Get More From Your Corporate Campus Landscaping 

A great Commercial Landscaping 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 bay area landscaping company you need to keep reading on.

Improved Design Helps Impact Water Use 

Hiring an experienced HOA Landscaping Service will lower your water use and help you comply with the new water regulations in California . Efficient water management is a huge challenge for HOA and Commercial property managers. Well-planned sustainable landscapes and green landscape maintenance practices are a great solution to rising water rates. Plus you’ll achieve the reduced maintenance costs you’ve been dreaming about. 

Spring and Summer is a great time to refresh your bark mulch in your commercial landscaping. Mulching is beneficial for your property but can also cause damage if not installed appropriately. The damaging effects occur when mulch is applied in excessive amounts. Suffocation occurs when the bark is piled around the base of your trees and plants. The effects of excessive mulching cause decay because of the high water retention rate inviting disease and harmful pathogens to enter into the plants bark.