Your commercial landscape is the first thing people notice about your property. Whether you're trying to attract new renters or new clients, the area around your property should be clean, well-maintained, and visually appealing. Landscaping goes well beyond mowing the lawn. Use this fall checklist to ensure your property is beautiful and safe this season.
Your property's soil needs room to "breathe" and aeration provides just that. When you aerate the green lawns on your property in the fall, you open up the soil to make it healthier. In turn, the soil can provide a better space for grass to take root and grow strong and healthy during warmer months.
The autumn months are an excellent time to control weed growth on your commercial property. During these months, weeds work harder to save and store the sunlight, water, and soil nutrients that help them to survive the winter and emerge strong in the spring. By applying weed killers as the seasons cool down, you help to stop new growth in its tracks and create an easier removal job in the spring.
Summer months are full of gorgeous flowers in bright hues, but it is perhaps the fall and winter months that need the boost of color even more. After all, pink, purple, and other shades can be a bright spot on a gray day. Luckily, there are many flowers that hold up well during the cold nights and long days of fall and winter. Dot your landscape with pansies, winter camellias, and violas, or add sustainability to your fall garden with cabbage and kale.
Plant roots tend to grow the best during the fall. This is because temperatures are often still above 40 degrees in the daytime, which allows for safe planting, but remains cool enough that moisture sticks to the roots and allows newly planted ones to create sturdier underground systems. Establishing a new plant's roots in the fall means an expanded system in the spring that is more likely to survive when temperatures begin to soar next summer.
Fall is the perfect time to perform basic landscape maintenance tasks such as pruning and reshaping the trees and shrubs on your property. Doing so removes overgrown branches and limbs that can freeze and break during ice or snowstorms. Broken limbs may land on your buildings, in parking lots, or even on people, causing extensive damage or injuries. Removing them before the first freeze creates a safer environment as well as promotes the health of the plants by allowing sunlight to reach the healthy branches. Reshaping large trees, such as oaks or elms, are best done after the first freeze. This is when the trees go dormant, which makes it easier to determine which limbs are dead and need removal.
Commercial landscaping is best performed by professionals who have the experience, knowledge, and tools necessary to create a safe and beautiful landscape. This fall, hire Monarch Landscape to create a beautiful property that will look amazing while surviving the winter and thrive when spring rolls around again.
