Author: Petalon Landscape

Tips to Enhance Your Property’s Appearance and Value

Well-manicured grounds deliver a great impression of your condominium property. From creating attractive seasonal displays to maintaining their lush and vibrant look, an experienced landscape management company can help you maintain curb appeal. How will you choose the right condominium landscape contractors to achieve this goal? Here are some key considerations when making this hiring decision.

How to Select Your HOA Landscaping Contractor

• Condominium landscaping experience: One of the most important considerations is appropriate landscaping experience. You want a professional crew that understands the unique needs of your condo property. Long-standing experience in the industry means the contractor has a reputation to maintain, and customers who can verify the quality of service. Ask for references and be sure to check them out.
• Creative landscaping ideas: Landscaping contractors who take the time to understand your property’s needs before suggesting any landscape enhancements will be thorough in their work, and deliver visible results. Local climate, soil condition, and sunlight patterns are some aspects they will consider when selecting plants and implementing landscape design.
• Expert landscaping techniques: From identifying the ideal planting locations on your property to efficient watering practices, an experienced commercial landscaper can advise you on cost-effective ways to maintain curb appeal. Selecting drought-tolerant ground cover and efficient irrigation management, for instance, will significantly reduce your landscape maintenance efforts and cost.
• Seamless landscape maintenance support: A healthy and vibrant landscape is the result of timely mowing, pruning, fertilization, disease management, and seasonal cleanup. This is a lot to handle when you have several other condo maintenance tasks to fulfill. Hire professionals who can provide you with year-round condominium landscaping services.

Trusted Condominium Landscape Contractors

Our professional HOA landscape maintenance team provides end-to-end service tailored to your unique needs. We combine decades of experience working with condo managers, and customize service plans to give your property an attractive, tidy appearance. We handle everything—fertilizing, mowing, trimming, pruning, pest control, weeding, and annual planting, taking the stress out of landscape management. Year-upon-year awards, and membership to several industry associations demonstrates our commitment to excellence.

Condo managers across the San Jose area, including in Fremont, Milpitas, and Mountain View, CA trust us with their commercial property maintenance requirements.

Call 408-453-3998 or contact us online to request our services or learn about important considerations for hiring condominium landscape contractors.

Summer Tree and Plant Care, for Changing Seasonal Needs

Proper summer plant and tree care is important for the long-term health of your company’s landscape.

Petalon Landscape Management’s commercial clients depend on us to keep their properties looking healthy and vibrant all year long. When the weather turns warm, our staff will to meet the changing seasonal needs of your trees and plants.

We’re able to identify and find solutions when minor landscape problems surface in the summer. With years of experience as our guide, we take steps to make certain they don’t turn into major headaches in the fall.

Elements of Summer Tree and Plant Care

A program of summer tree and plant care by Petalon professionals considers these factors:

Watering 

Proper irrigation is a major issue in the summer. Overwatered landscapes are common in the Bay Area. Too much moisture robs roots of oxygen and can kill plants. A drought-tolerant landscape with shrubs, plants and flowers native to California requires minimal irrigation, even in hot weather.

If you wonder whether your landscape is adequately irrigated, check to see if plant or tree leaves are supple and even-colored. If they are brown and brittle, wilting or yellowed, you may need to adjust your watering schedule.

Climate zones

The Bay Area consists of several climate zones, so the landscaping needs of each Petalon client are varied. We take into account your location, altitude, and proximity to the ocean to customize a program of summer tree and plant care for you.

Pest damage 

Insects do physical damage and can cause disease in plants and trees any time of year. Telltale signs of infection include holes, spots or discoloration on leaves. Petalon first uses organic methods to deter pests or cure the disease and prevent it from spreading throughout your landscape.

Petalon clients often ask if planting trees and shrubs in the summer is OK. We recommend restricting planting to the spring and autumn. Planting in warm or hot weather may shock a plant or tree and root development, which is critical to successful transplanting, does not naturally occur during the summer.

Begin a program of summer tree and plant care by talking with a Petalon Landscape Management professional. Contact us online or call 408-453-3998 today.

After heavy rainfall in the winter and early spring, it’s time to prepare for and take advantage of those hotter, drier days. Summer is the season for drainage maintenance and repairs by your landscaping pro.

Proper drainage is critically important to a landscape. A lack of drainage results in standing water or soggy spots in lawns or flowerbeds. Excessive drainage leaves other areas dry and often results in serious erosion issues.

Petalon Landscape Management makes drainage a priority when installing new landscapes or renovating existing ones. Often, a landscape with areas in which grass, flowers or plants don’t thrive can be revived simply by fixing common drainage problems.

Regular drainage maintenance and repairs will eliminate areas that are too wet or too dry. Landscapes with good drainage have a pleasing, uniform appearance because all the plants, flowers and shrubs consistently retain the right amount of moisture needed to grow.

We Fix Drainage Problems of All Types

Routine drainage maintenance is wise policy for businesses, condominium complexes, HOAs and government entities that care about the appearance of their property. The best way to be certain small drainage problems don’t turn into costly ones is to have a landscaping professional periodically check the drainage after irrigation or rain, then make the necessary adjustments.

When significant drainage issues develop, major repairs are often required. In those cases, a Petalon Landscape Management professional inspects the entire landscape thoroughly to assess the extent of the problem.

Various repairs may be required, depending on the issue, including:

• Re-grading an area. This may involve creating a swale to better accommodate runoff and control incidental erosion.

• Installing drain tiles. Perforated pipes are buried underground to draw away excess water, sometimes to a catch basin. French drains, which are gravel-filled trenches, are another way of redirecting water.

• Reconfiguring irrigation systems. A sprinkler layout that leads to poor drainage is easy to fix, quickly and inexpensively.

Petalon Landscape Management is a full-service Bay Area contractor for commercial properties in the cities of Fremont, Mountain View, Walnut Creek, Danville, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Palo Alto, Livermore, and Pleasanton.

If you have problem areas on your property, call 408-453-3998 today, or contact us online to request a quote, because summer is the time for drainage maintenance and repairs.

Diligent Pest Control in the Spring

Skilled pest control in spring by the pros at Petalon Landscape Management means fewer problems with infestations in the summer and fall.

We can assist you in keeping a handle on pests such as moles, gophers, ants, grasshoppers, rats, aphids and beetles. Petalon Landscape Management employs a green philosophy with every customer, preferring to employ organic methods of pest control and avoiding the use of harmful chemicals and pesticides.

Exposing landscapes to toxins harms the earth and humans, and does little to address the causes of infestations. In fact, broad applications of pesticides indiscriminately kill insects, even desirable ones, and can make matters worse.

We believe diligently identifying and addressing infestations early in the growing season pays dividends later in the year and can actually save your company money in the long run.

Here is what Petalon experts look for each spring in order to curb the proliferation of pests on your property:

• Tunneling – burrowing rodents and other animals are very destructive. We have proven methods to rid your grounds of these pests.

• Standing water – mosquitoes and other flying pests thrive when water is present. We check to make sure drainage is adequate after rains and irrigation.

• Bark damage – the recent drought increased the numbers of wood-boring insects that eat the inner bark of trees and shrubs.

• Dead plant material – many animals and insects use dead plants for food or as a warm place to live. Cleaning up leaves, compost, old mulch and other debris left over from winter reduces the opportunity for rats, mice, or other pests to take up residence on your property.

Pest Control through Good Planning

Eliminating pests in your landscape is virtually impossible. Choosing disease-resistant plants, watering wisely and fertilizing regularly helps your landscape resist pests.

When troublesome bugs and animals do surface, a program of constant monitoring is necessary to keep infestations from becoming serious, Petalon Landscape Management is able to control pests organically and keep your landscape healthy at the same time.

We’re a full-service landscape contractor serving the Bay Area cities of Fremont, Mountain View, Walnut Creek, Danville, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Palo Alto, Livermore, and Pleasanton.

Call 408-453-3998 today to find out how Petalon’s spring pest control makes your grounds look vibrant and beautiful in the months that follow.

Our Arborists’ Springtime Duties Yield Great Summertime Results

Petalon Landscape Managment’s certified arborists know that their hard work during spring results in healthy, thriving trees when the weather turns warm.

Springtime is when we assess clients’ trees for signs of winter damage and chart a course for ongoing care and maintenance. Although winters in California are typically mild, our professional arborists recommend a careful inspection of all the trees on your property in order to avoid costly problems such as pest infestations later on.

Here are several steps Petalon’s knowledgable arborists take during spring months to ensure your trees are always strong and beautiful: 

• We remove fallen branches, leaves and other debris for aesthetic reasons and to allow moisture to reach deep roots. 

• New plantings. Spring is the ideal time to plant new trees or transplant existing trees to better locations. Our arborists have the expertise to help you choose the best trees for your property, and then plant them properly so that they root quickly and maximize growth potential. We can help you choose from a variety of species, including those that require little water or drop few leaves. 

• Pruning is best done in late fall or winter, but sometimes a springtime prune before buds form is appropriate, especially if branches have been damaged by winter wind or frost. 

• Petalon skillfully shapes trees to create a natural “crowned’ appearance. Our crowning methods prevent overgrowth and minimize stress to your trees. 

• Spring Fertilization. Slow-release fertilizers deliver nutrients to each tree. In some cases, trees require deep-root fertilization for best results.

Petalon Landscape Management’s certified arborists provide a range of tree-care services for commercial clients in the Bay Area, including the cities of Fremont, Mountain View, Walnut Creek, Danville, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Palo Alto, Livermore, and Pleasanton.

Certified Arborists Can Boost the Value of Your Property

Trees add visual interest as well as value to a property. Let Petalon Landscape Management improve the appearance of the trees on your property or help you plant new trees that add an exciting dimension to your landscape.

Call 408-453-3998 today to enlist the services of Petalon’s knowledgable certified arborists.

To prepare outdoor areas for the growing season, the professionals at Petalon Landscape Management offer these common-sense commercial landscaping tips for spring:

• Perform a general cleanup of the landscape. Fallen leaves, branches and other debris that accumulate during winter should removed. If needed, it’s a good time to repair your hardscaping.

• Assess trees for signs of disease. Spring is the best time to evaluate the condition of your trees, before growth begins. We can then prune your trees and encourage healthy growth with deep root fertilizing and mulching.

• Aerate grass areas. Lawns require periodic aeration to make certain that water, oxygen and nutrients reach the roots. To eliminate unsightly brown areas, Petalon also repairs your lawns by reseeding or installing fresh sod. We also edge lawns for a fresh, tidy appearance.

• Prune with precision. Plants are healthier and better looking when pruned by experts who understand their natural growth habits. Early spring, before the growing season, is an ideal time to prune.

• Adjust, repair and update irrigation systems. Systems left idle during the winter need sprinkler adjustments to ensure a landscape is evenly watered. Spring is also the time to identify areas of standing water for remediation, repair leaks or broken equipment, and update with modern irrigation methods, if necessary.

Petalon Landscape Management’s commercial clients include property management firms, developers, estate owners, and municipalities in Fremont, Mountain View, Walnut Creek, Danville, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Palo Alto, Livermore, and Pleasanton.

Our Organic Approach is Good for the Environment

Petalon Landscape Managment’s green philosophy touches every aspect of our business. Because we believe protecting nature, our professionals implement green landscaping practices such as water conservation, integrated pest management, green waste recycling, and the reduced use of pesticides and herbicides on every project.

Petalon also uses low-emission equipment and hand tools, when practical, to further reduce our carbon footprint.

Learn more about our environmentally sound practices to keep your outdoor areas looking spectacular all year long. Call 408-453-3998 today to schedule an appointment with a Petalon team member.