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

When you serve on a landscaping committee , first impressions are important from visitors and tenants. Commercial Landscape maintenance in The San Francisco Bay Area is a vital aspect of managing the appearance of your property, but it also can be a significant cost in your budget. For these reasons, it’s important that the top decision makers receive the best possible service for their landscaping service.

Winter Tree Pruning Saves on Resources.

Our professional arborists value your time- and provide cost effective commercial tree pruning solutions. In the winter months when trees are dormant, our certified arborists have a clear vision of your trees structure and can make the appropriate decisions for pruning. Tree branches are lighter and easier to access for pruning and clearance, and trees without leafs are much easier to see. With branching patterns being more assessable and easier to see, the plant material can be pruned to encourage structural integrity and maintain its natural form.

Drought continues to plague the bay area with HOA community landscaping and landscaping for commercial properties and who knows what the cost of water will be in the next 10 years, but there is one thing for sure, the cost will not go down. With many municipalities and water agencies requiring strict water rationing in order to reduce the use of water, do you think these restrictions will force you to choose between brown, deteriorating landscaping and expensive water penalties?, think again because you haven’t looked at the newest landscaping trends available.

We’ve all seen the traditional lawns; that need excessive amounts of water, requiring a large amount of fertiliser 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%.

Protecting Your HOA Landscaping Trees 

Managing and training personnel to maintain landscaping with horticultural fundamentals is the key to long term vigor and the appeal of plants and trees. Personnel should be trained on the proper way to edge the lawn at the base of trees in turf.

Perennials + Annuals = Cost Savings

Each year, some commercial and apartment properties spend literally thousands of dollars on the installation of colorful annual flowers to improve their appearance throughout the growing season. In the new planting season, flowers are stripped, removed and transformed into vibrant, colorful displays of flowers that are pleasing and attractive.

The seasonal burst of color has started in the bay area, and with the awesome colorful displays come one seasonal task –leaf cleanup. As trees both deciduous and partial-deciduous trees drop as the season progresses so does the daunting task of cleanup, and may linger around for multiple months, especially landscaping for commercial properties, retail centers and apartment communities.

When navigating through a commercial property or retail shopping center, 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?

5 TOP Corporate and Commercial Landscaping Tips

A lot can change in the commercial landscape over the next 50 years, such as availability of water, environmental-global climate change, the economy and the list goes on without saying that proper maintenance is the key to a long life span. Read on for our top 5 Landscape Maintenance Tips that can extend the life of your landscape into the next 5 decades.

Fall is Prime Planting Season for Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Annual Flowers in residential apartment landscaping and commercial office developments. They often establish more quickly when they are in the cool winter and fall season. The cooler weather allows the plants root system to acclimate more quickly from transplant shock.

Commercial Landscaping Tips

• Reduce the Landscape watering frequency for established plantings

• Remove trees that pose a critical risk to the public’s safety

• Fertilize Trees, Shrubs as appropriate

• Fertilize Lawns as appropriate

• Have trees inspected by an experienced arborist, prune dead, diseased or unsafe branches.

• Remove weak limbs in Trees

• Plant New Trees and Shrubs

• Mulch Trees and shrubs as appropriate

• Inspect Plant material for disease and pests treating appropriately

• Conduct the appropriate water schedule for the cooler weather

There are a number of ways to reduce the amount of time spent on commercial and industrial landscape maintenance. There are also a variety of ways to reduce these costs. However, sometimes it requires some upfront investment of time and/or money to renovate a landscape in order to reduce the amount of maintenance. Below are a few ideas and suggestions.