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

This is an important time of the year for many Bay Area property managers that are finalizing 2015 Years Budgets.

Establishing the appropriate landscape budget can help you control expenditures while planning for next year’s budget. Your budget should include the appropriate line items like basic landscape maintenance, tree pruning and other related expenses, but there are trending landscape improvements to consider.

Bay area landscaping companies can provide a number of benefits by using mulch, including reduced erosion and water loss, improved soil nutrition and a more balanced soil temperature. Different kinds of mulch provide these benefits at different levels. The river rocks and other small stones often used to prevent weed growth in landscapes are attractive, can help conserve water and require little maintenance, but they don't nourish or insulate the soil in the same ways as conventional organic mulch.

Why Your [Customer Service] is Missing the Mark

(And How You Can Fix It !) 

Great Commercial Landscaping Services is not just about 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.

Top 5 Corporate Landscaping Trends

Its hard to say what your landscape maintenance will require  50 years from now, but the water situation in California is not improving according with recent news media. Proper maintenance and design is the key in future years to come. Read on for our top 5 Commercial Landscaping Trends that can extend the life of your landscaping while helping to conserve water.

10 GrassTrends used for Corporate Landscaping

Low Maintenance drought resistant and appealing to the eye. What property manager or owner wouldn’t want to get those qualities out of their commercial landscaping service — at the same time? One way to achieve your goal is through the appropriate design and use of drought resistant landscaping.

Today, drought tolerant grasses are gaining popularity and demand for their low maintenance qualities, including their low water use and pest free benefits. Available in multiple colors, textures and sizes, they are also appealing for corporate and apartment landscaping. When used appropriately, your commercial landscape maintenance will benefit from the year around interest provided, can be used as accents or ground cover, and can even in raised decorative containers. 

Is your commercial property landscaping prepared for the spring and summer? Generally, spring flowers are the first place to begin this year. Therefore, your landscaping at an apartment, shopping center or office building should look its best by the time summer sets in—including the landscaping at high traffic areas. The monument sign or plant containers at the frontage are usually the first thing visitors see when approaching your property, making it important to have inviting landscaping can make all the difference.

April is a great time to get started with landscaping for this year’s season. It’s once been said, “April showers bring May flowers.” 

Its essential that landscaping is high on your priority list, and should be. High maintenance commercial lawn care is a budget expense that seems slowly increase in cost, some of those costs include sprinkler and irrigation repairs, replacing flowers and tree pruning 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 true cost of high maintenance landscaping.

Routine landscape maintenance preserves the value of a commercial property. When hoa lawn care is neatly mowed and shrubs pruned, when edges are clean and flowers are in bloom, the appearance speaks volumes about a property owner’s standards and commitment to quality.When the landscape appears to be in a state of decline, business is effected and tenants become less than happy. 

Then there’s routine maintenance care performed by commercial landscapers—the usual activities like mowing lawns and trimming plants. And, their are “the landscape improvements” that make the difference between the average and the elite.          

Read on to get our 5 Tips.

Large expansive lawns, lush flower beds and sculpted plants sound great, but remember one thing: How much will it cost you to maintain your new landscape creation? You want to invest your capital improvements money on low maintenance landscaping that will require fewer resources to maintain and still give you that WOW factor.

Here are just a few ideas to consider when designing your future landscaping project.

What are you doing to reduce water consumption on your property? 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 in and around your commercial property.