Commercial Landscape with Rock

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. 

Keep in mind that Greens Keeper Landscape Maintenance can and will help!  Please contact us at; 623-848-8277 We serve businesses like yours throughout the entire Phoenix Metro Area.

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