6 Reasons Why Year-Round Landscape Maintenance for Your Florida Property is Important
Your Florida landscaping is kind of like that one guy at work who never uses all
his vacation time.
“Why don’t you take a week off?”
“Nah, too much to do. Gotta sprout some weeds, drop leaves all over the place. Bugs are hungry. Gotta stress the irrigation system. No time for vacation.”
Yup, this is Florida, which means year-round maintenance for your commercial property.
Why is commercial landscape maintenance so important year round?
Lots of reasons. Take a look:
1. Things Grow — and Make a Mess — Year Round Here
There’s lots of leaf clean up in December, January, and February, but leaf debris doesn’t just fall in one simple season here.
If you have a lot of deciduous trees like oaks and Shady Lady black olive trees, those leaves make their way into struggling areas of your lawn and settle in, preventing your lawn from filling in those bare spots.
Speaking of lawns, grass around here doesn’t take much time off.
It’s warmer earlier and later in the year now here in Sarasota than it used to be. That means your grass grows more and needs year-round mowings.
Most commercial landscape maintenance contracts include 38 mowing visits. Tropical Gardens offers 42 times, to stay on top of nearly year-round growth.
2. Pruning Happens Throughout the Year
Pruning is a near constant task here. You can’t just prune four times a year. Things grow too fast.
Tropical Gardens crews trim and prune every month. That’s much healthier for plants — and makes them look much better — than chopping them way back once in a while.
Pruning is part art and part science. It needs to be done just right. You need landscaping pros who know when each shrub sets its flower buds so the buds don’t get pruned off. No buds, no pretty flowers.
3. Weeds Don’t Take a Vacation
To be honest, weeds don’t deserve a vacation. They’re terrible. Why should they be living it up on some luxury cruise ship when you’re sweating away with an endless to-do list, popping anti-stress supplements and antacids?
Anyway, back to the point. Weeds don’t take a vacation. Plan to battle them year round. Different weeds emerge at different times throughout the year, which means targeted weed control at just the right times is a crucial part of your property landscaping services.
Invest in pre- and post-emergent weed control treatments to keep your property weed-free throughout the year
4. Fertilizing Isn’t a One-Time Thing
Year-round maintenance should include frequent fertilizing. Smaller, more frequent fertilizer applications are needed here in Sarasota, where nutrients flow right through our sandy soil.
That gives fertilizer a better chance of actually feeding the lawn’s roots instead of just draining right through into the groundwater.
Most property landscaping services offer four visits for lawn care and two for plant health care.
That’s not enough. 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.
When a lawn care company does only four visits, they might miss an important window for treating insects like chinch bugs, sod webworms or grubs. Or for adding micro nutrients and iron crucial for thriving lawns.
5. Your Irrigation System Needs Adjusting Several Times a Year
If you’re starting to get a sense that commercial property landscaping around here is pretty needy, you’re right.
Add your irrigation system to the year-round maintenance list.
Watering is kind of complicated here in Sarasota, with our on and off rainy periods and sometimes wacky temperature changes.
Your irrigation system’s controller needs adjusting 6-8 times a year to allow for all that. Sometimes, three times in one month.
Do you really want to keep track of all that? You’d rather be drinking margaritas on that cruise ship weeds don’t deserve, right?
Plus, stuff happens out there. If you neglect
your irrigation system, entire zones might fail. Valves break. Heads get clogged. That means crucial watering isn’t happening.
Regular irrigation system inspections means worry-free peace of mind for you. It’s a crucial part of year-round maintenance.
You’ll know irrigation pros are keeping an eye on things, noticing small signs of potential problems before your precious landscaping suffers.
6. You Want Expert Eyes on Your Landscaping Year-Round
It doesn’t take long for things to go wrong out there if nobody’s paying attention. Plants die, lawn diseases strike, branches get overgrown, bugs move in. It can turn into a horror movie before you know it.
You need somebody looking out for this stuff pretty regularly.
Tropical Gardens account managers walk your property every month. If you can join them, they’d love to have you along, to chat about your property and hear about your golf game or your adorable grandchildren.
Can’t make it? No worries. We’ll send you photos of any problem areas we spot — along with our plan to fix it.
Get on Board with a Year-Round Maintenance Program
Here at Tropical Gardens we offer two comprehensive landscape maintenance programs that cover all these year-round maintenance issues.
One plan includes 42 visits and the other offers 51 visits.
Which one is right for you?
If you don’t have leaf-dropping deciduous trees, the 42-visit plan should work for you.
Mowing slows down in the winter so you can get away with 42 visits.
If you have a lot of leaf debris throughout the year, you’ll want the extra attention of the 51-visit plan, so crews can keep your lawn clear and thriving.
Pro tip: Choose a full-service commercial landscape maintenance company.
You want one skilled, reputable landscaping company to handle all your year-round maintenance, from mowing to plant health care to irrigation to landscape design.
It’s a lot easier on you.
There’s just one place to call when you have questions or concerns about your property, no matter the issue.
When you have a bunch of different vendors working on your property, there’s big potential for blame to be tossed around.
You want everybody working together for the good of your property.
If we see a problem, we want to just take care of it — not waste time checking with somebody else.
Ready for Expert Year-Round Commercial Landscape Maintenance? Talk to Us
So. Many. Needs.
Beds need weeding. Plants need trimming. Everything needs fertilizing. Hire skilled pros to handle it all, without missing a beat.
Tropical Gardens provides tailored, full-service commercial landscape services in Sarasota that ensures commercial property gets the care it needs — all year long.
Hire Sarasota FL landscaping services who will make this easy, so you don’t have another hassle on that long to-do list.
We can’t wait to get started.
Give us a call or fill out our form today! There’s a lot going out there -- all year round. Let our skilled, attentive crews handle it. You rest easy.
