Having a commercial landscape property in the City of Phoenix, Arizona means that you need to know all the city guidelines that apply to your property and that you must maintain it accordingly. A trip to their web site has the following information.
Group Plants With Similar Watering Requirements
Creating a landscape with water conservation in mind will not only help you save water but will also send out a positive message about your business to customers and clients.
There are additional benefits to making water conservation a central part of your landscape design. A well designed and maintained landscape not only looks good, but can create shade and lower your power bills by reducing heat load on surrounding buildings. Effective use of native plants can reduce the labor required to maintain a landscape. You can put your landscape to use as water collector, directing rainwater to where it is needed.
If you plan to make changes to your landscaping, hire a landscape professional with experience in water conservation issues. Create an environment that stands out and says something about your business.
Hydrozoning
The principle behind hydrozoning is simple: group plants with similar water requirements together to eliminate unnecessary watering. Plant the hardiest, most heat-tolerant plants in the areas next to sidewalks (which are generally hotter) or with most direct sunlight. Always install designated grass-only sprinkler zones.
Harvesting Rainwater
Rainwater harvesting is a practical form of irrigation for a wide range of landscapes both large and small. It works best with native plants. A simple system of berms (mounds) and swales (ditches) in combination with the right plants can reduce or even eliminate the need for watering with metered, potable water.
Equally effective is letting runoff from roofs accumulate in storage tanks. Businesses with extensive roof areas may be able to meet a large share of their irrigation needs with effective runoff systems. As well as reducing metered use and the associated costs, harvesting rainwater reduces off-site flooding and erosion by keeping the water on-site. Most of all, rainwater is free!
Water Features
If you are planning to put in an outdoor water feature like a fountain, stream or mister, think carefully about when and how it will be used. In addition to planning ahead for the future operation and maintenance of the feature, you should have a plan for times of restricted use.
https://www.phoenix.gov/waterservices/resourcesconservation/yourbusiness
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Greens Keeper Landscape Maintenance is a service oriented family owned business specializing in commercial landscape maintenance, providing high quality care based on open communication, and the highest quality service.
We offer a full range of options for our customers by tailoring a maintenance program to the specific individual needs of each property, and budget. We will strive to keep your landscape safe and beautiful, while at the same time keeping your monthly charge as low as possible.
While our normal hours of operations are from 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM we offer 24/7 service and Storm Damage Clean-up as needed by our customers.
We keep our overhead low and pass the savings on to our customers. We provide high quality service and pride ourselves on our open communication practices.
Our hourly rate is $26 per hour. Our special project rate, including sprinkler repairs, is $30. We offer convenient payment terms of 2/10 net 30.
All of our vehicles are clearly marked and all of our employees are in uniform for easy identification. Many of the small unexpected things that other companies charge for, we include.
If there are minor sprinkler repairs that are needed, most of them are also included (no charge). We accomplish this by providing an allowance for sprinkler heads, drip emitters, shrub heads, and repairs to lateral lines and drip lines. The only sprinkler issues that we would have to charge for would be main line repairs, valves & timers. And we always get these pre approved by our customers.
Unlike other companies we don't mark-up inventory, whenever possible. Another one of our popular services is safety and visibility trimming at no extra charge. This means that if you have things we think could be a liability on your property related to the landscape, we will communicate with you and work together to resolve these issues before they cause an accident or damage vehicles or buildings. If there is vegetation blocking the view of signs or safe passage in and out of the parking lot, trees blocking safety lighting, we will keep those items at their smallest manageable size (no charge).
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The Lowline is a proposal for the world's first underground park in the New York City borough of Manhattan that would be located under the eastbound roadway of Delancey Street on the Lower East Side, adjacent to the Essex Street station. The proposed location is the one-acre former Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal. The large trolley terminal has sat unused for 60 years. The project was first proposed in 2011 and quickly generated widespread media attention.
In 2012, the project raised over $150,000 from 3,300 backers on Kickstarter to create a full-scale exhibition of the solar lighting technology. In September 2012 an installation was opened on the Lower East Side to promote the project; titled "Imagining the Lowline," it consisted of a 30-foot wide aluminum solar canopy distributing natural sunlight onto a live cultivated landscape "park." The exhibit saw over 11,000 visitors and featured design talks, school visits, weekend street fairs and a political event.
The dream is to create a stunning underground park, providing a beautiful respite and a cultural attraction in one of the world’s most dense, exciting urban environments.
The Technology
Designed by James Ramsey (one of the co founders), the proposed solar technology involves the creation of a “remote skylight”, in which sunlight passes through a glass shield above the parabolic collector, and is reflected and gathered at one focal point, and directed underground. Sunlight is transmitted onto a reflective surface on the distributor dish underground, transmitting that sunlight into the space. This technology would transmit the necessary light needed to support photosynthesis, enabling plants and trees to grow. During periods of sunlight, electricity would not be necessary to light the space. In September 2012, the Lowline team built a full scale prototype of the technology in an abandoned warehouse in the Lower East Side, for the “Imagining the Lowline” exhibit. The exhibit attracted thousands of visitors, was heavily covered by the press and ultimately served as a proof of concept.
The creators were inspired to use technology to improve the lives of city residents, by creating more of the green space that we all need. The Lowline aims to build a new kind of public space, one that highlights the historic elements of a former trolley terminal while introducing cutting-edge solar technology and design, enabling plants and trees to grow underground.
The project envisions not merely a new public space, but an innovative display of how technology can transform cities in the 21st century. And along the way, they hope to draw the community into the design process itself, empowering a new generation of Lower East Siders to help build a new bright spot in their dense urban environment.
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Some people think of apartments as a temporary stepping stone to a permanent home, while others love the carefree apartment lifestyle. If you are an owner of a complex it should be your business to make all your tenants feel right at home whether temporary or permanent. Keeping this in mind, it is not just about the inside of the apartments that matter, but the outside needs to be welcoming as well.
If your landscaping looks drab or shabby, prospective residence will most likely leave as soon as they arrive, without even stopping to look at the inside of an apartment. One of the best ways to make your landscape look more attractive to potential customers as well as current clients is to give them a place to be active outdoors.
The Come Alive Outside Movement was founded in 2010 by Jim Paluch in an effort to promote the benefits of an active, outdoor lifestyle. The Movement engages landscape industry professionals to create spaces that draw people outside, and to take the lead in encouraging others to Come Alive Outside.
We should all be a proud supporter of the Come Alive Outside Movement. Studies have shown that people who spend time outdoors are often healthier and happier than people who spend most of their time inside. When we head outside, we connect with nature and with other people. It turns out when mom said, “Go outside and play,” she was giving us good advice.
Come Alive Outside is a reminder of what works. It is a reminder of what makes our lives healthy and our memories special. Over the past two years, these three words have inspired individuals, families, business and communities across North America to take action. With every action, the momentum grows. There are so many ways that we can get back outside, from the local bike trail to our own backyards. Children are automatically more active when they are outdoors, and spending time in outdoor spaces has the ability to melt away mental fatigue and stress like nothing else. The great outdoors is also a perfect place to create and enjoy a sense of community with friends, neighbors and coworkers. The reasons for coming alive outside are many, and the benefits start the moment that people step out the door.
As a business serving people we should all be committed to educating others about the benefits of spending time outdoors. We can offer landscape design and management services that make an apartment complex’s green space a place their residents can truly use as outdoor living spaces.
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The topic of roses and their general care could take over this entire blog for the next four months, so we will narrow our plant of the week to the heirloom rose variety, which incidentally, still covers several different plants. Admired for their fragrance and large, beautiful blooms, heirloom roses have delighted fans for centuries. Also known as “antique” or “old garden” roses, heirlooms include those roses that existed before 1867 when ‘La France,’ the first hybrid tea rose was introduced, marking the start of a new era of “modern roses.”
As modern rose gardening developed, so did the hybridizing of rose varieties. Today, about 80% of all roses grown are from the modern classes of roses. Encouraged to produce hardier specimens with larger blooms and heavier producing plants, rose growers cross-pollinated their specimens. The results are in many of today’s gardens. Although beautiful in their own right, they do not possess the stronger fragrance or the big, full blooms that the old garden roses are noted for.
Old is New Again
Heirloom roses are poised for a comeback as these vintage flowers lure us with their full bloom form and wonderful fragrance, as well as being as simple to grow as modern roses. Actual heirloom varieties are hard to pinpoint and fall in several categories: Gallicas, Damasks, Albas, Centifolias, and Moss roses.
Gallicas
Gallicas are the oldest of the old garden roses, having been grown by the Greeks and Romans and later bred by the Dutch and French as many of the names indicate. Gallicas have been involved in the development of all four other classes of old garden roses and have influenced, at least to some small degree, nearly all garden roses to the present. Their great colors range from shades of pink, reds, and purples to crimson red with stripes. The single, double, or semi-double blooms are held either singly or in groups of three. The bushes are easily recognized as low suckering shrubs with foliage that is oval, pointed and has a rough texture that is typically dark green in color. These roses can be grown in poor, even gravelly, soil and demand a minimum of attention.
Damasks
The Damask rose dates back to Biblical times. They originated in the Eastern Mediterranean and were introduced to the Europeans by the Crusaders. Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, and Romans all grew this extraordinarily fragrant, perfume-like rose. Damasks have a mixed parentage originating from a natural hybrid between the Gallica rose and a wild species rose. Damasks are very cold hardy, very thorny and have a rather lax and arching growth habit reaching three to seven feet tall. Most only bloom once a year and require good fertile soil to look their best.
Albas
Albas are the most elegant of all old roses with tall, slender, upright growth. They produce blush pink or white flowers and gray-green foliage. Albas are very hardy and thrive under difficult conditions, even partial shade. Alba roses have a strong, rich perfume that gives them special appeal in the garden and as cut flowers.
Centifolias
Centifolias are also known as cabbage roses because of the size and shape of their blooms. As their name suggests, their blooms contain up to 100 or more petals. Developed by Dutch breeders between the 17th and 19th centuries, they are the classic old garden roses often reproduced in artists’ prints popular today. Centifolias have lax, open, and rather lanky growth with a mixture of large and small thorns. The leaves are large, rounded, and broadly toothed while the flowers tend to be heavy and globular. They benefit from support to stop them bending too near the ground. They are once-blooming, very fragrant, and very winter hardy.
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Gallica - "Rosa 'Charles de Mills'2" by Amanda Slater - originally posted to Flickr as Gallica Rose "Charles de Mills". Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosa_%27Charles_de_Mills%272.jpg#/media/File:Rosa_%27Charles_de_Mills%272.jpg
Damask - "Rosa 'Quatre Saisons'" by A. Barra - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosa_%27Quatre_Saisons%27.jpg#/media/File:Rosa_%27Quatre_Saisons%27.jpg
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When you think of the perfect landscaping, do you envision a highly manicured lawn in the most vibrant shade of green? Or perhaps fragrant flowers always in bloom with the right amount of shade from perfectly pruned trees? Well both of these visions are quite lovely, and perfectly possible, but living in a desert, with little water, can make these two thought processes a bit problematic. Using Rock in commercial landscaping can be beautifully decorative, does not take watering, and has little upkeep involved in the maintenance.
Paint A Picture
I know what you're thinking, there is no way to make rocks look beautiful, there brown dirty old rocks. Did you know that rocks can pretty much come in any shape, size and color? There is a rock out there waiting to fill your landscape. Consider using a blue rock to design a river, you might even place a bridge over it to add a bit of realism. or take two different colors and create a pattern such as a sun, or lizard, or perhaps a mountain range. The sky is the limit to how beautiful a commercial rock landscape can be, it simply takes a bit of vision.
Delightful Mix
Your rock landscape doesn't have to be completely devoid of all life. In fact mixing live plants with a beautifully designed rock landscape could quite possibly be a perfect place for taking pictures for your company's next advertisement. Rose bushes as well as other plants do well covered by a lava rock. Lava rock's porous nature allows water to reach plants and its red color can be stunning mixed with white or sandstone colored rocks.
Weed Watch
Even if you opt out of the purposefully placed plant life in your rock landscape, mother nature might try to sneak some green past you. Weeds will grow anywhere they get a chance to take root. Seasonal maintenance must be done to ensure they don't take over as permanent guests in your landscape. A few ways to avoid that is by either occasionally spraying with pre-emergent before you see signs or by weed killer after they start to sprout. Or you could always pull weeds, but that takes some back breaking time out of your day.
Pros and Cons
Not increasing your expenses with the cost of water usage and irrigation maintenance is a definite thumbs up in the favor of rock landscaping. Limited maintenance would be another. However keep in mind the maintenance that needs to be done in weed control as well as occasional replacement of rocks. Storms and people will probably be the biggest culprits of messing up any design you may have.
Negatively speaking rocks are not going to provide a cooler environment the way plants do. Trees and grass can lower a buildings temperature, causing it to be more energy efficient. Also rocks aren't very comfortable to sit or stand on. Consider carefully the type of landscape that would be appropriate for you and your commercial property.
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Landscaping has a unique and proud history. Working with plants and creating a balance between the combination of buildings and the beauty of nature has existed for much longer than most people know. Like with all things the fashions and styles of landscaping changes with time. Hedge mazes were not just a passing landscape fancy, but an art that continues to fascinate and delight us even today. Hedge mazes evolved from the knot gardens of Renaissance Europe, and were first constructed during the mid-16th century. These early mazes were constructed from evergreen herbs, but, over time, dwarf box became a more popular option due to its robustness. Italian architects had been sketching conceptual garden labyrinths as early as 1460, and hundreds of mazes were constructed in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Initially, the hedge maze was not intended to confuse, but to provide a unicursal walking path. Puzzle-like hedge mazes featuring dead ends and tall hedges arrived in England during the reign of King William III of England. It was possible to get lost in the much-admired labyrinth of Versailles, built for Louis XIV of France in 1677. This maze was adorned with thirty-nine hydraulic sculpture groups depicting Aesop's fables. Unfortunately its glory was lost when the maze was destroyed in 1778. The oldest surviving puzzle hedge maze, at Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, England, was built for King William in the late 17th century. Its distinctive trapezoidal shape is due to pre-existing paths running alongside the maze.
In modern times, hedge mazes have increased in complexity. A hedge maze at Longleat House in Wiltshire, England, designed in 1978, features a three-dimensional maze that uses bridges and a grid-less layout to confuse visitors.
Castlewellan in Northern Ireland has the world's largest permanent hedge maze In the Forest Park. The peace maze, as it is called, is one of the Forrest Park's key attractions. It represents the path to future peace for Northern Ireland and a peace bell waits at the center of the maze for any who dare to solve it. Another key item of landscape is the walled Annesley garden, the focus of the Arboretum, started in the 1850s and rare conifers and maples were later imported directly from Japan. The Arboretum holds many trees with record heights in the British Isles.
Disneyland Paris has incorporated a hedge maze in their landscape as well. The hedge maze was created in Alice's Curious Labyrinth, an Alice in Wonderland themed area. Much of the maze is laid out in a pattern shaped like the Cheshire Cat. Two sections make up the maze: The Tulgey Wood and the Queen of Hearts' Castle and Hedge Maze. The goal is to reach the Queen's Castle, which offers a nice view of Fantasyland.
Hedge mazes are not just European landscape architecture. You can find them here in the us as well. There is the Garden Maze at Luray Caverns, Luray, Virginia and The Governor's Palace Maze in Colonial Williamsburg, also in Virginia. Another maze would be the Kaeser Memorial Maze, located at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Cacti are the most misunderstood plant on the planet. Most people refer to cacti as those nasty sticky plants that look dried up and rugged. Some people think that cacti are only found in the desert and only in a few countries. Many people do not realize that many cacti put out fruit that are used for making candy and jams.
There are even other varieties that are used in tamales instead of meat.
The truth is cacti are the most beautiful and remarkable plant on earth. You can find cacti growing in almost every country except for a few in the Antarctic region. There are varieties that can take below freezing temperatures and others that can withstand 125 degree Fahrenheit weather. What other plant can be half eaten by animals and remain thriving for several more years? Cacti even produce several vibrant colored flowers periodically throughout the entire year.
There are many advantages of having a cactus garden for your commercial landscape.
One of the most remarkable things about cacti is the lack of water needed to keep them growing and producing flowers all summer long. However this does not mean that they can go without water permanently. In Phoenix, you might need to do supplemental watering during long droughts and of course during the hottest summer months. For cacti not yet established they should be watered every two weeks until they get a healthy root system.
For a person who is too busy to worry about care and maintenance but wants a beautiful landscape filled with plants, there is no better plant than a cactus. Cacti require very little care and water. All one needs to do is plant it and sit back and enjoy. Unlike perennials, cacti are extremely easy to cultivate and cuttings can be rooted out in as little as three weeks. Most cacti are cultivated by cuttings or seeds.
The Opuntia species are the most practical variety of cacti to cultivate for the novice grower. The opuntias provide varieties without spines and some with dense showy spines. Most opuntias are fast growers and very easy to transplant without going into transplant shock.
I must warn all potential cacti landscapers, once you have began working with cacti for a while, they can become highly addictive. You will never be able to enter a nursery without leaving with several varieties of cacti.
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Carnegiea gigantea (aka Saguaro) is the keystone plant and icon of the Sonoran Desert. This slow growing columnar cactus is this country's largest cactus, often reaching between 40 and 60 feet in height and weighing (when fully hydrated) approximately 80 pounds per foot. A mature Saguaro may weigh as much as 8 tons and they can live for more than 200 years.
The plant's epidermis (skin) is 'pleated', allowing for expansion when water is available, and contraction during droughts. The plant's thick skin is waxy and waterproof, restricting water loss only through the stomates (gas exchanging pores).
The plant is supported by an internal skeleton, a circle of woody ribs extending the length of the cactus and into its arms.
Saguaro arms always grow upward; frost may damage the tissue such that the weight of the arm causes it to droop downward. If the arm survives, the growing tip will turn upward again.
Beautiful Blooms
Flowers are formed on the growing tips, and following pollination, fruits will form, each containing approximately 2000 seeds. Dispersal, rainfall, and other factors result in only about one mature plant per 40 million seeds.
The waxy, white, 3 inch wide blossom is Arizona's State Flower. The bloom opens at night and is pollinated by both the Mexican long-tongued and the lesser long-nosed bat. Flowers stay open until the next afternoon, attracting birds and insects to consume nectar and pollen while also providing pollination services.
Saguaro blooms can be found any month of the year, but most emerge from May to June. White wing doves are one of the major avian species contributing to Saguaro pollination. Other birds and insects, including a variety of bees, also pollinate these large flowers.
Many bats feed on nectar and fruit. Two species, the long-nosed bat and the Mexican long-tongued bat, migrate through and live in Saguaro habitat. The Saguaro flowers supply their complete diet during migration. The bats feeding activity effectively pollinates the flowers.
Once ripe, usually in July, the red fruits split open attracting birds, insects, and other desert dwellers to consume and disperse the seeds, as well as enjoy the sweet fruit's flesh. Each cactus produces thousands of tiny black seeds that will germinate about five days after a rain.
A 'nurse plant', such as a palo verde, is a critical factor in the successful development of mature Saguaros. So a seed needs to find its way under a tree or shrub for protection from herbivores and from desiccation. As the plant matures, its spines deter herbivores and provide some shade for its skin.
A number of birds utilize Saguaros for roosting and nesting. Hawks, such as red-tail hawks, and doves construct thick nests on the arms, while Gila woodpeckers, cactus wrens and Gilded flickers excavate holes for nesting sites into the Saguaro's stem.
In defense the cactus quickly produces a thick material to heal and dry the wound. This 'callus' structure usually takes the shape of a 'boot'. When the plant dies the woody ribs that supported it in life and any 'boots' soon become visible as the softer plant tissue dries and crumbles away.
Saguaros, being only found in the Sonoran desert, and most abundant in the Arizona Uplands subdivision on south-facing slopes are sensitive to extremes in cold and dry weather. This is one of the most protected plants in Arizona, be sure to check with all appropriate authorities before planting, moving or cutting down any Saguaro.
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The presence of landscaping on a commercial property gives it a unique look and makes it stand out from the crowd. Having a nicely landscaped commercial property not only enhances the aesthetic appearance of the grounds, it can also help to bolster sales and employee morale. Landscaping a commercial property does not need to be difficult. Here are some easy landscape ideas that are perfect for commercial properties in Maricopa County.
Create a Foliage Fortress
Creating some privacy and separation with foliage is a great landscaping idea, particularly for businesses that are housed in a single-story building. A privacy fence or some dense foliage can create a barrier that keeps potential thieves away from the business. Installing some permanent structures can also be an attractive way to create privacy. For example, planting large trees or adding a fountain or waterfall is an attractive way to welcome visitors while still preserving some seclusion for the workers inside the building.
Include Walkways and Patios
Sometimes a sanctuary at the workplace is just what workers need to keep their morale up. Having a landscaped area with walkways and patios is a great way to invite employees to enjoy the outdoors during their off-times. Welcoming outdoor patio areas are easy to create. Installing cobblestone walkways is a beautiful and creative way for employees to get from place to place on the property. They also allow visitors to access the building with ease. Be sure to adorn the patio area with seating for the employees so they can rest while they are on their breaks or eating lunch. Stone benches are always a nice touch. Heavy permanent chairs that will not blow away in the wind are also a great idea. Add a few heavy planters with blooming flowers for a bit of ambiance.
Include a Water Feature
Water features create a relaxing and refreshing landscape that is inviting to both visitors and people who work on the property. Waterfalls and fountains are both great options for including a water feature on the property. However, having one of these features can use an extraordinary amount of water, which can be both costly and environmentally irresponsible. The best way to combat these issues is to install features that use recycled water. That way there is only a minimal amount of water being used to create a fabulous water feature.
Pick a Focal Point
One of the best focal points for a commercial property is the company’s signage. It is important for any company to make sure their signage is prominent and easily seen on their property. One way to make signage stand out is to highlight it with landscaping. Planting brightly colored flowers and plants around the signage will help it stand out and be noticeable to people as they pass by. Be sure to use low-height landscaping elements to assure the signage is not blocked.
Include Some Year-Round Landscaping Elements
Balance the landscape with both seasonal and year-round elements. Seasonal plants and flowers are great to include because it allows for the property to continually reflect the seasons of the year. But, be sure to include some elements that do not change as time passes. drought tolerant plants that can withstand Arizona summers are great to include because they are low-maintenance since they will not need to be changed out from season to season.
The right landscaping can completely transform a commercial property. If you need to perk up your commercial property, we can work with you to get some eye-catching ideas.
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Our hourly rate is $26 per hour. Our special project rate, including sprinkler repairs, is $30. We offer convenient payment terms of 2/10 net 30.
All of our vehicles are clearly marked and all of our employees are in uniform for easy identification. Many of the small unexpected things that other companies charge for, we include.
If there are minor sprinkler repairs that are needed, most of them are also included (no charge). We accomplish this by providing an allowance for sprinkler heads, drip emitters, shrub heads, and repairs to lateral lines and drip lines. The only sprinkler issues that we would have to charge for would be main line repairs, valves & timers. And we always get these pre approved by our customers.
Unlike other companies we don't mark-up inventory, whenever possible. Another one of our popular services is safety and visibility trimming at no extra charge. This means that if you have things we think could be a liability on your property related to the landscape, we will communicate with you and work together to resolve these issues before they cause an accident or damage vehicles or buildings. If there is vegetation blocking the view of signs or safe passage in and out of the parking lot, trees blocking safety lighting, we will keep those items at their smallest manageable size (no charge).
We don't charge anything for the installation of winter lawns. This means you do not pay anything for scalping and removal of summer lawn, sprinkler tune up, and top dressing where needed. And the seed is provided at the market price. We also offer a full range of tree trimming options for our customers including emergency storm damage clean up and tree removal. Lawn fertilizer is done quarterly for the price of fertilizer only.
We will strive to keep your landscape safe, clean and beautiful. At the same time keeping your costs as low as possible.
We meet or exceed the highest insurance standards, with $2,000,000 business liability, $1,000,000 commercial auto, and $1,000,000 workman's comp. And we can list you (the customer) as additional insured at no extra charge.
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While the Phoenix Metro area doesn't have anything like this we thought that you would like to learn about this project from Vancouver.
Dedicated 0n August 23, 2008, the Vancouver Land Bridge reconnects historic Fort Vancouver to the city’s Columbia River waterfront and helps restore the natural landscape continuum from upland prairie to river edge. This is much more than your typical highway overpass or pedestrian foot bridge. This pedestrian bridge, which sweeps across State Route 14 in a simple, elegant arch, also commemorates the confluence of rivers and indigenous people encountered by the Lewis and Clark expedition. from the air it reminds you of the swirls and eddies of a stream and from the upland side it rises out of a grassy field like a hill obscuring the 4 lane highway. The earth and concrete bridge is a 40 foot wide, dignified path to the Columbia River. The creators, Jones & Jones’s design draws on the cultural significance of the circle, a Native American symbol often used to represent the life cycle.
The walking path, which sees approximately a million visitors a year, meanders across the bridge through an interpretive landscape of prairie, grassland and forest native plants. you can learn about the site's indigenous plants as you walk along the land bridge, which leads you up to a grand view of the river and the surrounding mountains. No water is wasted on this landscape as it has a rainwater collection system making it an environmentally savvy piece. This landscape also incorporates artwork created by the design team and native artists.
The artwork includes a Welcome Gate, designed by Native American artist Lillian Pitt. Two cedar canoe panels, each adorned with a cast-glass sculpture of a Chinook woman's face, evoke the site's role as a historic tribal crossroads as well as a point of contact between European and Native people. European and Native American cultures once converged at this Columbia River site, where the Hudson's Bay Company stood as the first European trading post in the Pacific Northwest. Lewis and Clark camped here, and Fort Vancouver was built here 20 years later.
Facts
The bridge is a 40-foot-wide, earthen-covered pedestrian bridge
Federal, state and private funding made it possible
Sustainability guidelines were established
Rainwater collection system irrigates native plants
BENEFITS Restored landscape continuum
It is the Gateway to the City of Vancouver and connects the city to its waterfront
It Links the regional Discovery Trail system
Historic landscape interpretation
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Summer maybe winding down and children going back to school, but here is some food for thought for your next year’s commercial property look. Long-blooming perennials make life easy for businesses that want color all summer. To be sure, through careful selection and planning, continuous sequence of bloom can be achieved using a multitude of plants that flower for but a brief time. But having perennial flowers that bloom all summer gives us more room for error. Just plant these species in a place where they'll be happy and let them do the work for you.
Of course, as with all plants, some work is still required, remember we can help with your landscaping, weed control, deadheading and dividing perennials to name just a few things.
But long-blooming perennials are well worth the work; here are some kinds to look for:
Garden Phlox
Come July, garden phlox (Phlox paniculata) is a staple of the garden. This long-blooming perennial flowers all summer and can continue its display into fall. If you want to skip the presence of powdery mildew disease on your foliage opt out of growing a traditional type of garden phlox. Instead look for newer types like 'David' garden phlox, they are mildew-resistant, which keeps the foliage nice and healthy looking all summer.
Shasta Daisy
If we travel back through the mists of history, we find that "daisy" was once spelled "day's eye." It was a sun metaphor, and very much reflective of the ambiance created by this plant: It's difficult to contemplate a daisy and not come away with a sunny outlook on life. But this classic flower is more than just eye candy. Becky shasta daisies are tough plants and display an endurance that belies their delicate appearance.
Long-Blooming Perennial Salvia
Deadhead your salvias regularly, and these perennials will bloom all summer long. Victoria blue salvia is treated as an annual in some places, but is still worth growing. 'Blue Hill,' 'May Night' and 'Caradonna' salvias are long-blooming perennials.
Lavender
When you encounter lavender-scented linens, sachets and potpourris, you can't help but think "class." It's a nice touch in a home, and ridiculously easy to implement. But even people with no interest in such domesticity grow lavender plants. These herb plants bring just the right touch of beauty to the landscape.
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Hydrangea is a beautiful plant grown in many places and depending on type would make an excellent focal point for a commercial landscape. They come in a variety of colors (depending on soil conditions) and can even be grown in pots. These plants were introduced to the Azores, many years ago and, particularly on Faial, began to thrive. Faial is now known as the "blue island" due to the vast number of hydrangeas present on the island.
General Information
Hydrangea is a genus of 70–75 species of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas, and Indonesia) and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Japan, and Korea. Most are shrubs 1 to 3 meters tall, but some are small trees, and others lianas reaching up to 98 ft by climbing up trees. They can be either deciduous or evergreen, though the widely cultivated temperate species are all deciduous.
There are Species of plant in the related genus Schizophragma,that are also often known as hydrangeas. Schizophragma hydrangeoides and Hydrangea petiolaris are both commonly known as climbing hydrangeas.
There are two flower arrangements in hydrangeas. Mophead flowers are large round flowerheads resembling pom-poms or, as the name implies, the head of a mop. In contrast, lacecap flowers bear round, flat flower heads with a center core of subdued, fertile flowers surrounded by outer rings of showy, sterile flowers. The flowers of some rhododendrons can appear similar to those of some hydrangeas, but Rhododendron (including azalea) is in a different order.
Life Cycle
Hydrangea flowers are produced from early spring to late autumn; they grow in flowerheads (corymbs or panicles) at the ends of the stems. In many species, the flower heads contain two types of flowers, small fertile flowers in the middle of the flower head, and large, sterile bract-like flowers in a ring around the edge of each flower head. Other species have all the flowers sterile and of the same size.
Colors and Soil Acidity
In most species the flowers are white, but in some species (notably H. macrophylla), can be blue, red, pink, light purple, or dark purple. In these species the color is affected by soil pH. For H. macrophylla and H. serrata cultivars, the flower color can be determined by the relative acidity of the soil: an acidic soil (pH below 7), by the influence of sundry agents in the soil, such as alum or iron, will usually produce flower color closer to blue, whereas an alkaline soil (pH above 7) will produce pinker flowers. This is caused by a color change of the flower pigments in the presence of aluminium ions which can be taken up into hyperaccumulating plants
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We have talked before about how landscape lighting can transform your commercial property. Highlighting your strengths, like your signage and your entryway and ensuring your customers, tenants and visitors find their way in. It also keeps people on your property safe and secure during their stay. I’m sure you’ve heard all about LED lighting lately, but have you considered if you should upgrade to LED landscape lights and reap the numerous benefits this new technology provides.
Below are some solid reasons you should consider the switch to LED landscape lighting.
LEDs Are Cooler … Literally
Yes they are the trend of society, but we mean cooler as in Temperature. Incandescent and halogen bulbs produce a ton of heat. In fact, up to 90 percent of their energy is given off as heat. On a commercial property, this could increase the risk of fire if dry leaves or flammable materials come in contact with a hot bulb. LEDs use energy far more efficiently with little wasted heat.
LEDs Last Longer
A LED is a type of solid-state lighting that uses a semiconductor to convert electricity into light. Once used just for cell phone and digital watch displays, LEDs have advanced to the point where this lighting category will account for 75 percent of all lighting sales by 2030.
Once an outdoor lighting system is installed, it requires maintenance. Even when using high-quality incandescent or halogen products in a landscape lighting system, light bulbs burn out, plants grow and block lights, wires become exposed, lenses get dirty, etc.
Since all of these things need to be done throughout the year, the cost of lamps and labor to replace them can get pretty expensive, depending on the size of your commercial landscape lighting system. But with LED, the fixture or lamp lasts about 25 times longer than traditional light bulbs.
LED bulbs can have a useful life of 25,000 hours or more. Some LED lights can last up to 50,000 hours. That is a life of more than three years if run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It also takes far less time to clean the lenses and so maintenance may only need to be done once annually and in less time.
You Want A More Sustainable Property
Being more sustainable can get you Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)points and boost your building’s “green” appeal. But you can’t do that while using inefficient landscape lights.
LED light sources are gaining popularity due to the growing energy conservation movement and no other lighting technology offers as much potential to save energy and enhance the quality of our building environments.
You’ll Save Money With LEDs
LED lighting typically costs more up front than incandescent lights, but you’ll actually save money in the long run using LEDs.
Low-voltage LED landscape lighting uses a fraction of the electricity incandescent or halogen bulbs use. Today’s LED bulbs can be six to seven time more energy efficient than conventional incandescent lights and cut energy use by more than 80 percent.
In 2012, approximately 49 million LEDs were installed in the U.S., saving about $675 million in annual energy costs, according to Energy.gov. Switching entirely to LED lights over the next two decades could save the U.S. $250 billion in energy costs, reduce electricity consumption for lighting by nearly 50 percent and avoid 1,800 million metric tons of carbon emissions.
Not only does the energy savings mentioned above make LEDs more sustainable, but so does their ability to emit less heat and last longer, reducing the need for maintenance and replacements.
Learn More About LED Landscape Lighting For Your Commercial Property. Landscape lighting can improve your commercial site’s safety and security while creating an inviting environment at night by enhancing site features, architecture and landscaping. You can benefit more from using LED lights in your landscape because they are less expensive to maintain, give you more design flexibility, offer greater efficiency and considerably decrease energy bills.
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