The Power of Seasonal Color Landscaping: Boosting Your Curb Appeal

Everybody loves flowers. They’re instant happiness. 

Fantastic bursts of colorful flowers are a gift you give your tenants, employees, visitors and shoppers. 

But let’s be honest — you get big rewards from your seasonal color landscaping, too. 

Bright, inviting beds of flowers attract big attention, drawing customers and tenants to your property, happy for the welcome. Do a great job with your seasonal color flowers, and they can even bring people back. 

Seasonal flowers for commercial landscaping offer automatic curb appeal that make you stand out from your competitors. They invite people to stop, notice, maybe even snap a few photos for Instagram. 

How to get the most impact? 

You’ll love these tips: 

The First Big Tip: Fresh Flowers All the Time 

Great seasonal color landscaping means your property brims with fantastic, eye-catching flowers and plants through every season — not just summer. 

Go ahead and welcome spring — and your customers — with a burst of exciting color after a long gray winter. 

Then, when those spring flowers fade, get a bright new batch for summer. 

Summer flowers work hard around here. It’s a long, hot season. When your summer blooms get tired, bring on a whole new truckload to brighten your commercial property and impress visitors through fall. 

How often should this seasonal color flowers rotation happen? 

Three to four times a year, depending on your landscaping budget.

Plan for new flowers in March, May, and September. When fall rolls around, a fall mum rotation adds impressive color right until frost. Then, bring on the festive spirit with holiday decor to add color, texture and cheer into the winter. 

Where to Use Seasonal Color Flowers for Curb Appeal? 

Think about the places people see first. Plan colorful masses of flowers people can admire from the street.  

Then add bursts of color where it makes the most impact for your commercial landscaping curb appeal. 

Two must-do flower spots: 

Entrances

Flowers make your entrances extra cheerful and welcoming. Plan seasonal color plants for the front door of your building or lining the walkway customers or residents use. Don’t forget the power of big, super-sized planters, too. 

Signage

Bright color is a go-to strategy for signage landscaping at the entrance of an apartment complex, HOA or shopping center. Color attracts attention.

When people pause, struck by the hot pink Sunpatiens or vivid red begonias, they’ll see your signage, too.

Seasonal Color Flowers for Summer

Summer is the prime season for flowers. This is when your commercial landscaping curb appeal can really knock everybody’s socks off. 

Tried and true colorful summer annuals include petunias, begonia, vinca, and lantana. They always shine. 

There are lots of different varieties, and some are bigger, better, and more colorful. Your Level Green account manager can help you be adventurous and go beyond basic blooms. 

You get bigger, better flowers if you invest a little more. Some begonias will grow to 3 feet tall. They’re hard to miss. For the best commercial landscaping curb appeal, the bigger and more colorful the better.

Try something new. Exciting new plants make your property stand out from your competitors. 

Level Green landscape designer Richard Sweeney loves the new Beacon impatiens for their vibrant, long-lasting color. Bonus: they’re disease-resistant. 

Sunpatiens are another popular winner, both for their ability to resist disease and their dazzling colors. 

Not all summer seasonal color plants are flowers. ‘FlameThrower’ coleus offers striking, exotic colorful foliage Sweeney loves. 

Summer Tropicals Add a Vacation Vibe 

This is Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia, so stunning exotic tropical plants automatically attract attention. You don’t see them every day around here. Add them to your wish list of seasonal color plants. 

Tropical plants, treated as annuals, add exotic drama and a vacation vibe to your commercial landscaping curb appeal. 

They’re dramatically different than the typical annuals people are used to seeing, so tropicals automatically attract attention. Use them around your signage, along walkways, at entrances. Think palm trees, or banana trees with their huge, impressive leaves.

Tropicals look great combined with summer favorites like lantana, dragon wing begonia, creeping Jenny, coleus and sweet potato vine.

These seasonal color landscaping standouts make it hard to say goodbye to summer. But don’t worry…

Seasonal Color Plants for Fall

When your summer blooms fade, Level Green crews are prepared with impressive fall replacements. 

The weather here in the DC area, Maryland and Virginia is mild enough right through November to keep the color show going, as customers are still out there running errands, dining out, and looking for new places to live. 

How to keep your commercial landscaping curb appeal through fall? 

• Pansies, violas, and panolas (a cross between the two) are a fall color staple available in a rainbow of colors. Pair orange and blue together for knockout commercial landscaping curb appeal.
• Ornamental cabbage and kale adds interest with their ruffly texture.

Pro tip: Because fall is a short growing season, use 6-inch rather than 4-inch plants, for instant impressive beds. 

The Magic of Mums 

Mums are the fluffy showstoppers of fall, exploding in vibrant color and keeping your commercial property captivating through autumn’s chill. 

There are varieties that bloom early, in August, like ‘Solar Flare,’ and mums that bloom in September, October and right up until frost. 

Strategically planting early, mid, and late-season varieties together will give your property wow-worthy color for months.

The colors are spectacular, in varied shades of orange, bronze, red, purple, lavender, pink, green, white, and yellow.

Once the buds pop open, mums will be in bloom for several weeks. Plant masses of mums for impressive color at entrances and around  signage and pop them in planters for up-close impact. Use them in everything from borders to window boxes to hanging baskets. 

Shine Through the Holidays

Once frost has ended the outdoor growing season, your commercial property still needs to impress. 

Your customers, tenants and visitors expect some holiday cheer. It’s time for a festive facelift for all your big planters. 

Think evergreens decked out in lights and shiny baubles. 

Swap out your fall mums, cabbages and kale for wintry twigs and berries, red twig dogwood and glossy winterberry holly with its cheery red berries. Curly willow, striking river birch branches and plenty of pinecones transform your planters for the holidays. 

Indoors, pile on the poinsettias in varying heights and colors for lobbies and entrances.

Level Green crews can bring in towering holiday trees for your courtyards and common areas, dazzling with lights. 
Or choose a tree with its root ball intact and wrapped, instead of a cut tree, and crews will plant it on your property after the holidays.

Seasonal Color Flowers for Spring

After the gray and gloom of winter, everybody wants the bright, cheerful mood booster of spring flowers.

Technically, your fall flowers like pansies often last into spring, but they're not as vibrant as when they were first planted. Refreshing them now with a new rotation offers instant commercial landscaping curb appeal. They make people happy. 

So bring on fresh pansies and violas, colorful spring standouts in pink, yellow, orange, purple, or blue. Spread them in spectacular beds, and pop them into planters so people can love them up close.

And don’t forget the beauty of bulbs for commercial landscaping curb appeal.

Daffodils and tulips are stunning in your spring landscape, especially when planted in huge masses. Think big numbers, like 2,000. Or 10,000, if you’re Level Green founding partner Doug Delano, who plants that many cheerful daffodils on his property. 

Tulips are great in masses, too, Delano says.You can spend a couple hundred dollars and have a hundred or 200 tulips at your entrance.

For the best commercial landscaping curb appeal, plant a huge swath of one color, Delano suggests. 

Then, wait for the wows.

Commercial Landscaping Curb Appeal: Have Fun with Custom Colors and Designs

Set your property apart by using seasonal color flowers in custom designs just for you. 

When Bowie Town Center celebrated its 20th anniversary, Level Green account manager Mary Ellen Burton and crew members spelled out “20 YEARS” three times in vibrant flowers in the expansive flower beds circling the center’s giant centerpiece fountain. 

After Burton’s meticulous planning, Level Green 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. 

Be creative. Use flowers in custom colors to match your university, your city flag or your company logo. 

Create seasonal color plant designs that are uniquely you. 

Keep the Seasonal Color Flowers Going Strong With Level Green

Nothing boosts your commercial landscaping curb appeal like dazzling colorful flowers. 

We’ll help you choose the plants, colors and designs that will keep your landscaping wow-worthy, from spring right into winter, with commercial landscaping in DC, Maryland, and Virginia that stands out from the rest. 

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 in Maryland, Washington DC and parts of Virginia.

Contact us at 202-544-0968. You can also request a free consultation online to meet with us one-on-one.

We’d love to hear from you.