If you want people to notice your property, nothing wows like bright, impressive annual flowers.
Everybody notices them, whether they’re massed in impressive beds out front or packed in pots for intriguing up-close appeal.
What are some of the best commercial landscape annuals here in the mid-Atlantic? Cheerful pansies and petunias. Stunning salvia and sunpatiens. Hard-working lantana and begonias. And you can’t beat the explosive impact of vibrant mums in the fall.
New varieties of tried-and-true favorites add extra dazzle and intrigue. Impress tenants and visitors with flowers they don’t see everywhere else.
Let’s learn more about how to boost your commercial property’s appeal by creative landscaping with annuals, including:
Celebrate Your Own Colors with Annual Flowers
Use Annuals at Multiple Heights for Impact
Choose New, Exciting Varieties
Spell Out a Message in Annual Flowers
Go Big with Planters
Spruce Up for Special Events
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Use Tropicals as Commercial Landscape Annuals
Landscaping with Annuals: Keeping Them Bright and Beautiful
Level Green account managers have all kinds of tricks up their sleeves for using annuals for big impact on your commercial property.
Check out these creative examples:
Celebrate your school spirit or company logo with displays of annual flowers in your own colors.
Red and purple? Orange and white? Blue and yellow? Show off flowers in your own brand of colors to perfectly personalize your property.
Surround residents, workers, shoppers and diners with beautiful blooms in beds, planters and hanging baskets.
Your goal: Everywhere you look, something’s in bloom. Beds of annual flowers offer an impressive big picture, while planters pack a punch up close. Hanging baskets add overhead impact.
Grab attention with varieties of intriguing commercial landscape annuals people don’t see everywhere else.
Some varieties are bigger, better and more colorful than others. Your Level Green account manager can help you be adventurous and go beyond basic blooms.
The Big Rose begonia series flowers boast huge blossoms, up to three times bigger than basic begonias.
The flowers of the new PassionFruit lantana are a color-changing spectacle, starting out
deep orange-yellow, then deepening to orange, and finally maturing to a deep fuchsia. They’re spectacular.
When a busy shopping center was about to celebrate its 20th anniversary, the property manager wanted to spell out “20 YEARS” three times in vibrant annual flowers in the expansive beds circling the entrance fountain.
After meticulous planning by a Level Green account manager, landscaping crews painstakingly planted cheerful pansies in the spring to spell out the celebratory message against dark brown mulch, then switched them out for begonias for the summer and panolas in the fall.
It was a showstopper.
A bustling outlet mall wows shoppers with nearly 200 impressive planters packed with bright blooming annuals, and 90 of them are changed out with new flowers four times a year. The rest are filled with evergreens that look great year-round.
Visitors are so impressed they take selfies by the picturesque pots and post them on social media. (That’s great free advertising.)
Follow their example and take advantage of commercial landscape annuals for every season.
In the summer, their pots brim with colorful lantana, angelonia, vinca and elegant ornamental grasses. In the fall, crews remove the summer annuals and tropicals and replace them with cold-hardy evergreens, pretty pansies and ruffly ornamental kale.
In March they rotate again, adding fresh pansies, dianthus and dusty miller.
Something special happening? Expecting important visitors?
Landscaping with annuals can put on an impressive show.
When a university celebrated the inauguration of its new president, Level Green crews installed extra annuals in beds and planters for the impressive outdoor celebration. Annuals always add impact.
Now that you’re bursting with great ideas, what commercial landscape annuals are your go-to choices?
Check out these Level Green favorites:
1. Pansies
2. Petunias
3. Violas
4. Panolas
5. Lantana
6. Snapdragon
7. Begonias
8. Ageratum
9. Angelonia
10. Salvia
11. Vinca
12. Sunpatiens
13. Beacon impatiens
14. New Guinea impatiens
15. Mums
Here in the Mid-Atlantic, tropical plants won’t survive all year outside, so we treat them as annuals for dramatic impact.
Think palm trees, or banana trees with their huge, impressive leaves.
Hibiscus, bird of paradise and mandevilla are all show-stoppers.
Annual flowers will work hard for you all season if they get the proper care. A few tips:
Annual flowers won’t thrive without water, and there are several options to keep them healthy, from smart irrigation systems with easy internet-based controllers to water delivered on site. Level Green crews can bring water and fertilizer on site in 250-gallon tanks on small trucks that can maneuver in the tight spaces of urban properties.
Planters can get their own irrigation systems, ensuring potted plants, which dry out faster than flowers planted in beds, get proper irrigation.
Annual flowers need a complete fertilizer that contains nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to keep producing their impressive blooms all season long.
Slow-release fertilizer applied at planting time gives them a good start, and continues that important feeding by consistently releasing nutrients over time.
Commercial landscape plants will thrive much better with a layer of beneficial mulch.
Mulch helps your soil retain moisture, so you won't have to water as much. It keeps pesky weeds at bay by blocking the sunlight they need to sprout. It prevents rain from washing away your landscape soil.
Our favorite mulch for annual flower beds is pine fines, a very finely shredded mulch mix that helps with drainage and breaks down quickly. This is good for annual beds because Level Green crews switch out annual flowers every 4-6 months. So by the time the next rotation of annual flowers goes in, the previous pine fines are breaking down and can be mixed into the soil for nutritional value.
Commercial landscape annuals thrive in rich, nutrition-packed soil.
If your site’s soil is old, neglected or sandy, crews can add a boost of organic matter to enrich the soil and help it retain moisture.
Want big impact? Add annuals.
Let us suggest the perfect commercial landscape plants to make your property impossible to ignore.
Level Green Landscaping provides commercial landscape maintenance services in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland.
If you’re not already a Level Green Landscaping client, we’d love to add you to our growing list of happy customers. Our focus is on commercial properties like offices, mixed-use sites, HOAs, municipalities and institutions.
Contact us at 202-544-0968. You can also request a free consultation online to meet with us one-on-one.
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