Springtime brings to mind the idea of blossoms and bright colors reappearing after drab winter weather. If you have a hotel or resort, spring flowers will set the stage for your guests to enjoy the scenery and relax while they’re staying with you. People who visit Arizona in the springtime often come to see desert wildflowers in bloom, so your hotel or resort should deliver in your landscaping. Talk to your landscaping company about the blooms you can add to create a colorful springtime display. These are some of the flowers you may consider planting.
Dahlias
Dahlias are some of the most striking flowers you can plant, particularly dinner-plate dahlias, which produce extremely large flowers. You can plant dahlias in full sun, though a little afternoon shade won’t hurt. They need well-draining soil and regular watering to grow. They should bloom through summer and continue to grow tubers, and each spring, your landscaper will replant the tubers.
Wildflowers
Wildflowers are a broad category. Though the name suggests that they grow uncontrolled, you can actually plant them in your landscaping. Poppies, lupines, verbena, and deer vetch are all common varieties. They are accustomed to growing in the desert, so they are hardy and require little special care. Planting more than one kind of wildflower is a great way to add color and variety to your landscaping without the need for a significant amount of maintenance.
Cacti
Cacti won’t give you flowers this season, but if you add them to your landscaping, you can reap the benefits of them blooming in future springs. Blooming cacti in the spring is just the kind of scenery guests come to Arizona to see.
Complete Landscaping is experienced in hotel and resort landscape design and maintenance. Let us help you plan a landscape design that your guests will want to come back to again and again. Call our landscaping company in Tucson at (520) 323-8918.