If you want to minimize the time and money you spend on commercial landscape maintenance, you must begin with a smart landscape design. Complete Landscaping specializes in low-maintenance landscape design for property managers. This type of landscaping ensures that your property looks inviting and well-maintained but doesn’t require hours of weekly maintenance. Here’s a closer look at how the right design can minimize your property maintenance without compromising the beauty of your commercial property.
Prioritize Native, Drought-Tolerant Plants
In Arizona, a drought-tolerant landscape is key for minimizing property maintenance, lowering utility costs, and maintaining a beautiful property in every season. Fortunately, the Sonoran Desert is filled with beautiful plants that are perfect for your low-maintenance landscape design. Incorporating native cacti, trees, shrubs, and flowers into your design will reduce watering needs, keep your landscape looking colorful even in the height of summer, and minimize maintenance needs.
Utilize Hardscaping
Hardscaping elements like walkways, patios, retaining walls, and water fountains can create visual boundaries throughout your property and fill your space without adding to your landscape maintenance needs. We can help you thoughtfully incorporate hardscape features into your low-maintenance commercial landscaping so that your property still showcases the natural beauty of the desert but minimizes maintenance tasks like weeding, watering, and pruning.
Install an Irrigation System
Watering can be one of the most time-consuming landscape maintenance tasks, and it’s also where a ton of money can be lost if plants are not watered at the right time or with the right methods. Using a drip irrigation system will ensure that plants are watered at the roots during the right times of the day to minimize evaporation. Even if your landscape primarily features native or drought-resistant plants, regular watering may still be necessary, especially as new plants get established. Having an irrigation system installed will reduce time spent maintaining your commercial landscape and keep your water bills lower, even when temperatures soar.
Eliminate Grass
Many commercial properties have moved away from grass to reduce regular maintenance and cut back on water usage. There are numerous grass alternatives that are perfect for groundcover in Tucson properties, including gravel, artificial turf, mulch, and native groundcovers like Silver Ponysfoot, Trailing Grama, and Verbena. If you want to maintain a grassy area for a playground, dog run, or other recreational needs, you might consider planting clover, creeping thyme, or UC Verde Buffalo Grass, which was engineered to be a low-water, low-maintenance alternative to other turf grasses.
Complete Landscaping can help you create a commercial landscape design that prioritizes low maintenance needs for a lighter workload and reduced upkeep costs without compromising the beauty and professional aesthetic of your commercial property. In addition to smart landscape design, we also offer routine commercial landscape maintenance with affordable long-term contracts that include essentials like irrigation system upkeep and weed prevention. Contact us to reimagine your commercial landscape design in Tucson, AZ.