1. Establish a Baseline and Set Your Goals
Like stepping on a scale before you set personal fitness goals, you should start by taking an honest look at where your property’s landscape is today, then decide how you want to improve its appearance. By walking through your property now, you will see some areas where you know that you can make big improvements this year. Look for obvious areas first, like bare or overly distressed patches of turf, or trees with low hanging limbs that are in need of trimming. Pay special attention to the featured areas of the landscape like entrances and common spaces. Do they welcome visitors, or are they dull and need rejuvenating? You may not like what you see now, but by identifying the problem areas and setting improvement goals, you should start to see real progress by the time spring arrives.
2. Commit to a Plan and Record Your Progress
Now that you’ve established where you’re starting from, and where you want to be, it’s time to create a plan. As with your personal health goals at the gym, your landscaping will need a plan that addresses not only the areas you want to improve, but all the components of a healthy landscape. Successful landscape service plans include not only the services you see, like mowing and detailing, but maintenance of other important areas, like your irrigation system, and will include fertilization and pest prevention for sustained, healthy growth. By committing to attend monthly walkthroughs to review your landscape’s most important features, you will be investing the time needed to make sure that this is the year that your landscape gets in shape. Map and photograph the areas of your property that you would like to improve, so that you can go back to them throughout the year to track their improvement. Once you start receiving compliments from residents, tenants, or guests about your landscaping, you’ll know that your time and hard work are paying off.
3. Get Help from a Pro
Finally, the most important thing you can do to make sure that your landscape gets in shape this year is to hire professional help. Just like a personal trainer will push you toward your fitness goals, a dedicated, professional landscape service provider will accelerate the improvements you want to see in your property’s landscape. A professional landscaper will be with you on your monthly property walkthroughs to help you see and understand the positive changes taking place in your property’s landscape. They are accountable to make sure that your improvement goals are met and will use their knowldge and expertise to make sure your property is healthy year after year.
These three simple tips will help make sure that you get your landscape in great shape this year.
Remember that your landscaping is a major factor in your property’s first impression – make sure that it always looks its best!
