Proper year-round landscape maintenance is essential to protecting and preserving your commercial property. Come spring in particular, it is often useful to review and prep the landscape for the coming growing season. A number of improvements and choices you make as the weather warms will make all the difference in promoting healthy landscape growth through spring, and beyond.
Laying down mulch in the spring can be enormously helpful in promoting healthy growth over the coming months. Mulch helps to retain water in plantings, helping to prevent your landscape from drying out as the weather grows hotter. Mulch also helps to preserve moisture and prevent erosion, which can be essential if your property is in a region prone to heavy downpours or flooding. Finally, a thorough mulching around plant bases and roots helps to suppress weed growth and lets your intended plantings get a strong head start in annual growth.
Spring is also a great time to enhance the overall beauty and functionality of your residential or commercial landscape. Spring is a goodtime for planting trees, shrubs, and flowers. Transplanting on mild days will help avoid heat or cold stresses and set new plantings up for healthy growth over the coming months.
The start of the growing season is also a useful moment toe valuate other, structural features of your landscape: retaining walls, benches, water features, and more. Problems that developed over the previous year or winter can be dealt with, and new features can be installed.
Patterns developed over a prior season or winter may clue you in to areas in which your approach to water use needs to be adjusted. Effective use of irrigation and water flow on a commercial landscape is essential for both aesthetic and structural purposes. Poorly channeled water can erode landscapes and even undermine a building's structural integrity, and making sure water properly flows where it should is ultimately vital for the health of your residential or commercial landscape.
If you are in a drier climate, installing meters on your irrigation or sprinkler system can help you keep track of water use and make highly-calibrated adjustments. Other improvements — like installing an entirely new drip irrigation or other system — can also be useful spring improvements.
Monarch Landscape Companies has a wealth of experience installing, improving, and maintaining commercial and residential landscapes. Contact us today to learn how we can help improve your property.
