How to Choose the Right Landscaping Company for Your Tropical Plant Needs
The fun way to choose the best tropical plant experts for your yard would be to serve up some popcorn and watch them play Tropical Plant Jeopardy.
“I’ll take Critters That Eat Crotons for $400, Ken!”
If only that were a thing.
So how to choose the best landscaping company for tropical needs? Make sure they’re actual experts on tropical plants. Do they have a great relationship with tropical plant growers? Are they local, with comprehensive knowledge about the Sarasota growing climate? Can they give you examples of their impressive customer service?
Keep reading to learn more about hiring tropical plant landscapers, including:
- How Well Do They Know Tropical Plants?
- Do They Know the Plant Growers?
- Do They Pride Themselves on Customer Service?
- Are They Local?
- Look at Examples of Their Work
- Are They a Full-Service Landscaping Company?
How Well Do They Know Tropical Plants?
This one’s a no-brainer, right? You want a landscaping company that goes way beyond great mowing and pruning. Do they have tropical landscaping experts with horticulture training on board? You want real plant nerds on the job.
If they can’t stroll through your yard and name every one of your plants, they shouldn’t be taking care of them.
The best landscaping company for tropical needs has a team that really knows their stuff. Do they know the bloom cycle of the tropical plants in your landscaping? What insects eat them? Are they sensitive to cold? When should they be pruned and how?
That last one is huge. Some landscaping companies roar in with hedge trimmers and shear off all the new growth every month.
That means no beautiful hibiscus blooms, because each month they’re cutting off the buds.
Hibiscus only need pruning twice a year — spring and fall. Do that, and they’ll be covered in blooms.
The same thing often happens with bougainvillea. Skilled pros know to cut it way back in the fall. It will bloom like crazy with new growth.
Tropical gardens crews are trained in proper pruning techniques. Crew leaders take horticulture classes so they know exactly what each of your tropical beauties needs to thrive.
Do They Know the Growers?
The expert growers of tropical plants have lots of great info about the plants they sell. Partner with Sarasota tropical landscaping services with a close relationship with the growers that provide their plants.
At Tropical Gardens, our entire management team goes each year to the Florida Nursery Growers and Landscape Association
show, meeting with knowledgeable growers to learn about the latest tropical plant news.
We talk to growers and get the latest information. That’s where we learned how to handle white fly infestations on weeping figs. We asked the growers what they use.
We nurture and value our close relationship with tropical plant growers, so we always have the best information to bring to your yard.
Do They Pride Themselves on Customer Service?
We do.
At our Wednesday staff meetings we always talk about how we’re not just a tropical landscaping company — we’re in the customer service business.
Our account managers are your go-to contacts for any questions or needs. Text or call anytime.
Need an estimate? Need a service done? We’re on it.
When you call us, we’ll pick up.
Are They Local?
When it comes to tropical plants, this is important. You want tropical landscaping experts on the job who are familiar with the plants that grow here in Sarasota and know what they need at what time of year.
If you hire a landscaping company that’s a national chain, they might be based in Oregon. They don’t even have ixora ‘Nora Grant’ there. 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.
And speaking of your backyard, if the soil is as sandy as we think it is, your tropical plants will need more frequent fertilizing than you might think — several times a year, actually. It helps to be from around here to know this kind of stuff.
You want tropical landscaping experts who know your yard as well as they know their own.
Hire a tropical landscaping company in your own Sarasota community and you get local pros who know your landscaping and experts you can find when you need them.
Look at Examples of Their Work
How to find the best landscaping company for tropical needs?
Ask to see photos that show off their tropical plant design. Do the plants look healthy and thriving?
Ask a few questions. Do those hibiscus shrubs need a lot of maintenance? Why did they choose that variety of croton? What are their thoughts about the best types of palms?
When they answer, are they excited about talking about plants? Do they have a lot to say? Their answers should impress you.
Are They a Full-Service Landscaping Company?
Yes, when you’re hiring tropical plant landscapers, you want pros who know to suggest Brazilian Red Cloak when you want a show-stopping shrub that none of the neighbors have. You want creative plant nerds who suggest staggering the heights of a few Solitaire palms. You’re looking for horticulture experts who won’t mistakenly plant fragile beauties who will curl up and die if we get a cold snap.
But that’s not all you need out there, right? What about your irrigation system maintenance? How about your lawn care? Wouldn’t a pergola look pretty out there by your Copperleaf ‘Louisiana Red?’ And you’ve been pondering a backyard cold plunge pool, right?
When you hire one company that can handle all your landscaping needs, things go super smoothly. Less work and worry for you.
Need Tropical Landscaping Experts? Talk to Us
Your tropical plants need fertilizing, pruning, targeted irrigation, and expert help handling plant pests and diseases.
That’s a lot of needs to trust to somebody who doesn’t know exactly what they’re doing.
Partner with landscaping services in Sarasota Florida with real tropical plant nerds on board.
That’s us.
Get on board with a comprehensive plant health care program, and our experts will show up at the right times with the right care to keep your tropical plants healthy and thriving year-round.
Tropical Gardens provides tailored, full-service landscape services in Sarasota that ensure your Florida landscaping gets all the care it needs.
And when we’re done babying your tropical beauties as if they were our own, we’ll boost your backyard outdoor life with all the other great elements you need to really enjoy it.
We can’t wait to get started.
Give us a call or fill out our form today! And if you want to challenge our tropical plant pros with a few Jeopardy plant questions, we’ll accept that challenge.
