The Gaylord Case Study: Reaching High Heights

Beautiful landscaping is always a balancing act — especially in the hospitality industry. You need to create an area that’s attractive and inviting, but it also needs to be easily maintained and manicured. Achieving both of these objectives requires intervention from an experienced professional landscaper. Monarch Landscape fits the bill and offers comprehensive landscaping services to hospitality clients throughout the U.S. We can help your establishment overcoming challenging landscape obstacles like we helped our client The Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Colorado.

Plant Health  

One of the first challenges encountered on site at Gaylord was the maintenance of year-round plant health. While maintaining landscaping in the spring and summer may be simple, we wanted to develop an innovative solution for keeping landscaping looking great in the fall and winter months, too. This required some ingenuity in the landscape design, but we were able to achieve this goal.

We did so by strategically selecting the plants that would be featured throughout the property. Rather than simply planting for the immediate future, we partnered with our client to determine what landscaping elements were best aligned with the center’s brand. We then determined which of these would be best suited to the often-harsh weather of the Colorado Rockies.

Once we developed a viable strategy for the landscaping, we implemented it with a plan for continual maintenance. We always develop and maintain the landscaping on-site so that it looks just as impressive as the first day it was installed. The result is a beautiful landscaping scheme that welcomes guests, gives a great first impression, and complements the rest of the convention center’s features.

Irrigation  

In addition to landscaping, we installed a comprehensive irrigation system for the Gaylord Rockies Resort. This irrigation system helps us maintain the integrity of the landscaping and ensure that no standing water accumulates. In the Colorado Rockies, rain and snow are common occurrences, so it’s imperative that a system is in place to prevent such weather events from disrupting guests’ experience. We created a customized irrigation system to meet the needs of the Gaylord, and each of our irrigation systems is designed to achieve the following:

•        Mitigate water runoff

•        Properly irrigate plants

•        Drain accumulating water

•        Maintain year-round efficiency

Our irrigation services focus on maintaining your landscape first and foremost. In order to thrive, plants need to be watered, and an effective irrigation system can assist in landscape maintenance by strategically delivering water to your landscape. The result is minimized expenses and labor devoted to landscape maintenance and less worry about year-round upkeep.


The second purpose of our irrigation services is the mitigation of standing water. Because of the rain and snow that often plagues the Colorado Rockies, we knew that an effective solution was necessary. We developed a customized irrigation system to efficiently route water runoff and ensure that no standing water accumulated. If standing water does accumulate, it can become an ideal environment for bacteria and parasites — so needless to say, an effective irrigation system is a necessity to prevent this from happening.

Guest Experience  

In addition to landscape management and irrigation services, we partnered with The Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center to provide professional porter services on site, too. Maintaining an inviting environment demands more than just an attractive exterior. It necessitates ongoing effort and maintenance, too, which is exactly what our porter services provide to our clients. Some of the services we offer as part of our porter package include the following:

•        Basic cleaning

•        Taking out trash

•        General maintenance

•        Restroom restocking

•        Support to staff

These services are an integral part of keeping your establishment running smoothly. For Gaylord, we provide full-time on-site porter services to ensure that the premises are trash-free and well-maintained to optimize guests’ experience. Our porter services are ultimately in service of the guest experience, ensuring that they are provided with a clean and attractive area to enjoy their stay. Our porters partner with your regular staff to ensure that the grounds of your hospitality establishment are always clean and inviting for guests.

We understand, too, that maintaining anonymity is important while we’re on site at your facility. We don’t want to interfere with the experience your guests are having — on the contrary, we want to enhance it — so we go to great lengths to ensure that our staff is always conscientious of both the guests and other staff working at the establishment. Our porter services are ideal for discreet maintenance and cleaning.

Full-Service Landscaping Solutions

The services provided to The Gaylord Rockies Resort &Convention Center are emblematic of the exemplary service we provide to each of our clients. Monarch Landscape understands the hospitality industry's demands, and we know that creating a great impression for guests is imperative. Let us help by crafting a beautiful landscape scheme, installing an effective irrigation system, and taking care of the details with our porter services. Reach out online for more information and a free quote for services.