5 Benefits of Choosing a Local Landscape Company in Florida

Your cousin in Idaho is so cool, you copied her car, her kitchen tile and her Christmas breakfast casserole. But you wouldn’t use her landscaping company, right?

What would they know about your tropical plants and tricky sandy soil?

Hire a local professional landscaping company in your own Sarasota community and you get local pros who know your landscaping; experts you can find when you need them; and local community  members who are accountable for their work, because their reputation matters to them. They live here, just like you do. 

Keep reading to learn more about why you should hire a local landscaping services in Saraosta FL, including:

Local knowledge and expertise

Personalized and responsive service 

Accountability matters 

Support your local community 

We’re here for the long haul

1. Local Knowledge and Expertise 

Your landscaping in Sarasota isn’t the same as your old college roommate’s in Cincinnati or your cousin’s in Idaho. 

So why would you want a professional landscaping company based anywhere but in your own backyard?

Here’s why local matters: 

A Local Company Knows What Grows Best Here

If you hire a landscaping company that’s a national chain to take care of your yard, they might be based in Oregon. That’s a completely different growing climate. What if they’re based in Tampa. That seems close enough, right? Not really. 

Tampa is actually in a different growing zone than here in Sarasota. Even they don’t know the quirks of all our local plants, and what grows best here. 

Conditions are different throughout Florida. Tropical Gardens programs are tailored exactly for here — right in your backyard. 

If the national chain’s main office is in Oregon and somebody there answers your call, will they know why your ixora ‘Nora Grant’ has weird red spots on its leaves? Not likely. We do. It needs a boost of magnesium.

You want a professional landscaping company maintenance team that knows your yard. Not your mother-in-law's yard.

Our pros know what kind of grass you have and what it needs, right down to the proper mowing height. (St Augustine, right? That needs to be kept at 4.5 to 5 inches tall, higher than other types of grass.)

Fertilizer is Quirky Here 

Big chains often use a standardized blend of fertilizer — it’s the same for lawns in Michigan as for Florida. That makes no sense. 

And about that fertilizer. They probably offer a four-step program, visiting your yard four times a year.

But here in Sandy Soil Sarasota (that should be the motto on our license plates) that’s not enough visits. 

Landscape contractors that visit just four times are putting so much fertilizer on your lawn at once that it can’t be properly absorbed by your sandy soil. Those important nutrients in fertilizer run right through it.

Sarasota lawn care means more frequent fertilizing, but with smaller amounts, so fertilizer has a better chance of feeding the roots than draining right through into the groundwater. 

Tropical Gardens visits once a month for 8-10 months of the season, visiting more often and applying smaller amounts of nutrients so they can really take hold. 

Other professional landscaping companies might deposit 7 lbs of fertilizer down 4 times.

We put down 2 lbs each time. Yes, it’s less fertilizer overall but it’s actually soaking in and feeding your lawn’s roots. 

Persnickety Pruning

What about pruning? Does a national chain know the bloom time of hibiscus here so they don’t cut off all the buds? 

Hire a Sarasota landscaping company with outdoor tropical plant pros who know when each shrub sets its flower buds, so the buds don’t get pruned off. Prune at the wrong time and you won’t have those stunning tropical blossoms so important for your tropical paradise backyard. 

2. Personalized and Responsive Service

Customer service is huge here at Tropical Gardens. 

When you call your national chain landscaping company, who answers the phone? If their home office is across the country, is that who answers your call? Or will you get dumped into voicemail?

When you call us at Tropical Gardens, you’ll hear a friendly voice on the other end. It’s rare you’ll get voicemail. If you do, leave a message and we’ll get right back to you. 

When you email us, we’re on it.

You’re our most important customer. 

3. Accountability Matters

Have you been frustrated with professional landscaping companies that don’t deliver on their promises, show up late, or miss important details?

That’s a huge pain. 

Our reputation here in the community is important to us. 

We’re accountable for the work we do. When we say we’ll do something, we’ll do it. If we mess up, we’ll fix it. 

You can count on it. 

4. Support Your Local Community

When you hire a Florida landscaping company in your community, you’re supporting your local economy and the people who live and work here.

Hire local and you contribute to the success of Sarasota-based businesses, ensuring they stay committed to offering superior service. And speaking of superior service…

5. We’re Here for the Long Haul

We won’t swoop in and install your new landscaping then disappear.

Worried you won’t be able to maintain your new outdoor digs, with overgrown plants or a struggling lawn? 

We’ve got you.

We’re invested in the community, here for the long haul to continue to care for your landscaping, answer your questions, figure out why your precious bougainvillea is covered with icky sooty black stuff. (Could be mealy bugs.) 

Ready to Hire a Florida Landscaping Company with Local roots? Talk to Us

You’re here. We’re here. Let’s get together.

Partner with Tropical Gardens landscaping services in Saraosta FL for a local connection you’ll love. 

We know how to maintain your Sarasota landscaping so it thrives in your backyard tropical oasis, handling everything from pesky whiteflies to extra hungry Ixora — and the many potential challenges  in between. 

We can’t wait to get started.