For commercial properties like office buildings, apartment complexes, and retail complexes, spring landscape maintenance is essential. Our Tucson commercial landscape spring checklist offers a closer look at the property maintenance tasks you should have on your schedule this April. By staying on top of spring maintenance, you can ensure that your commercial property looks beautiful and inviting all year long.
Check Irrigation Systems
After winter rains, irrigation lines may have shifted or warped, which can lead to leaks that can cause a big spike in your water bills once you get back to your spring/summer watering schedule. Once you inspect the whole system and patch any leaks, you can adjust watering times and increase the volume of water your plants receive to account for longer days with higher temperatures. At Commercial Landscaping, we replace irrigation valves for free for our commercial landscape maintenance clients.
Prune Heat Sensitive and Drought-Tolerant Trees
Spring isn’t the right time for all pruning tasks, but there are plenty of trees that are well suited to pruning in mid-late spring and early summer. Heat sensitive trees like Ficus and citrus trees should be pruned in early April before their next flowering cycle. For both native and imported drought-tolerant trees like Palo Verde, mesquite, acacia, willow, and sumac, pruning in late spring or early summer is ideal. Pruning these larger trees now will reduce the risk of potentially costly damage during monsoon season like fallen branches or fully downed trees.
To ensure your trees get the proper care and maintenance they need to thrive, we recommend working with a certified arborist like the ones on staff at Complete Landscaping. Our tree care specialists can keep your trees on the right pruning schedule and identify potential issues like fungal infections or diseases well before they cause widespread damage.
Plant for Seasonal Color
April is the perfect time to embrace color in your commercial landscape design with flowering annuals and perennials that will bloom in full color and provide rich texture to your desert landscape. Whether you fill garden beds, hanging pots, or decorative planters, now is the perfect time to plant marigolds, lantana, zinnias, periwinkle, apricot mallow, and desert petunia. These are all heat-tolerant flowers that grow quickly and are best for early April planting so that roots can become established before extreme summer heat sets in.
Keep Weeds and Pests at Bay
One of our most important landscape maintenance tips for Arizona property owners is to prioritize weed and pest control in the spring. Pests like insects and rodents become more active as the weather heats up, so you’ll want to use pesticides where needed and utilize non-chemical pest control methods like removing invasive plants, pruning trees and shrubs, and cleaning up overgrown areas. You’ll also want to keep weeds at bay, which is easy when you set up a commercial landscape contract with Complete Landscaping. We’ll spray for weeds twice per year at no additional cost.
As a property manager, you have enough on your schedule already. Leave landscape maintenance to the pros here at Complete Landscaping. We can complete your spring landscaping checklist and keep your property looking great year-round with an ongoing maintenance contract. Contact us to learn more.