Flowers depict the arrival of spring. They’re bright, colorful, and provide a cheerful scent that fills the air. All quite welcoming after the gray gloom of winter. Spring flowers and flowering shrubs are perfect for adding inviting color to your commercial property. Vivid flowers, with their refreshing scent, help visitors, residents, employees, and shoppers feel relaxed and welcome at your property.
Hiring a knowledgeable commercial landscaping service helps you select the ideal shrubs and flowers appropriate for your property.
Vibrant hues of exotic flowers and shrubs add another dimension to your commercial property, while enhancing the overall value of the spaces you own and manage. Investing in high-quality landscaping with carefully chosen flowers to improve the look and feel of your property sets your business up for success.
It’s like a gift that keeps on giving. The right installation choices provide more than rich hues of spring-flowering shrubs that attract the attention of customers and tenants to your property. Proper shrub selection also adds beneficial biodiversity to your landscape. Further, it provides greater maintenance efficiency—a nice way to maximize your budget (details on how below).
First impressions don’t get a second chance. That’s why spring-flowering shrubs for commercial landscapes make such a positive impact. Everyone on your property or folks simply passing by can immediately see vibrant beauty, especially the contrast right after the somber days of winter end.
Another thing about choosing lively colors for a commercial landscape is how it draws people outside. A buzz of activity is noticeable to passersby, making your outdoor spaces more desirable. Then, there’s the brand image benefits inherent to well-kept and carefully designed green spaces.
Your brand gets the added bonus of sustainability and lower maintenance requirements with the right spring-flowering shrubs. Using the “right plant, right place” concept, your blooming shrubs’ upkeep is lessened, as you see below:
One hidden upside comes with choosing pollinator-friendly spring-flowering shrubs. This extra consideration means property owners get the bonus of biodiversity, which can enhance their overall landscape’s health. Furthermore, pollinators are attracted to spring food sources, and the ideal blooming shrubs provide ample food.
With flowers attracting butterflies and honeybees, residents, shoppers, and guests get the added visual appeal of these helpful organisms. Not to mention how this can enhance your brand’s sustainability reputation.
Yellowstone Landscape’s Criteria for Selecting Shrubs
Climate compatibility affects the selection of the best shrubs for commercial landscapes. Here’s how Yellowstone Landscape chooses the perfect flowering shrubs for client properties:
Ideal shrubs should save clients money on water use as well. That’s why Yellowstone designers choose plants that thrive even in arid conditions. Texas sage and Red yucca are two drought-tolerant examples that are resilient and produce striking colors.
To enhance the bold colors, our designers look for ways to utilize a variety of shrub features. After all, there are species perfect for ground cover, medium-sized options, and tall shrubs meant to create borders or privacy. Staggered bloom times multiply the creativity as properties enjoy year-round blasts of color and variety. And nuanced hues found in flowering species like Gulf muhly and Autumn sage prevent monotony in the landscape.
Of course, shrubs need to fit Yellowstone Landscape’s service calendar and seasonal maintenance plans (details below):
Let’s look at classic blooming shrubs (and their appealing features) from multiple regions across the U.S.
You’ve seen the various spring-flowering shrubs for commercial properties and what makes them desirable. Now it’s time to look at ideal locations on your property to install shrubs that produce flowers. Let’s begin with building foundations.
The best shrubs for business landscapes don’t block window views or interfere with walking paths. So, low-growing shrubs are great for planting near building foundations. These plants need room to grow. So they should be installed about 3.5 feet away from structures.
Mix deciduous and evergreen shrubs to create interest during all four seasons. Consider varying textures, foliage patterns, and heights to engage the senses of guests using your outdoor spaces.
Junipers and boxwoods are often used to stylishly frame the entrances to retail centers, office parks, and HOAs. Memorable first impressions are often presented using standout shrubs like azaleas and hydrangeas.
Limited ground space for planting? Don’t worry. Container gardens with dwarf shrubs are a superb solution. Also, did you know that a creative landscape designer can offer multiple ways to blend your company’s branding elements into entryway landscape elements?
You want all your flowering shrubs to be visible, right? Staggered installation ensures this with low-growing plants in front, medium ones behind those, and taller shrubs in the back row. Native flowering-shrubs will provide vibrant colors even when the weather isn’t ideal. Plus, they can dramatically reduce maintenance needs—resulting in savings for property owners.
The best type of shrubs for privacy screens and windbreaks will be evergreens. They provide functionality year-round. After all, if privacy’s the goal, you want full foliage during all 12 months of the year. To spice up the variety in these areas, ornamental grasses and vibrant perennials are nice additions.
A bit more planning is needed in areas where plants experience more wear and tear. Smart considerations are as follows:
Right plant, right place definitely comes into play in these locations we’ve just discussed. Mindful shrub selection gives you the highest value through reduced resource needs, lower maintenance, and healthy flowering shrubs that thrive for many years.
There are best practices for shrub maintenance and seasonal care that help protect your investment. So let’s look at some crucial aspects—all of which should be part of a professional company’s comprehensive landscape maintenance program.
Yellowstone Landscape’s program includes keeping mulch at three to four inches deep around shrubs. This holds vital moisture in, while crushing weed growth. Some property owners request cedar mulch for its ability to repel certain pests naturally. Cypress mulch is sometimes chosen for its rot-resistant qualities.
In addition to mulch reducing moisture loss, incorporating smart irrigation technology avoids wasted water too. Up-to-date systems monitor for rain and have soil moisture sensors to help deliver exact amounts of water to plants. A great start at plant installation goes a long way too. That’s why Yellowstone installation teams use deep watering methods to encourage optimal root growth for long-term plant health.
See some of our recommendations below:
But without a solid fertilization program, there wouldn’t be much to prune. And spring color would fade fast. So, fertilizer must be applied in early spring—when new growth is emerging. This timing ensures nutrients are available when the shrubs need them most. A second application can be done in late fall (these nutrients will be stored for next spring's growth).
A balanced, slow-release fertilizer is typically the right choice. However, to encourage enhanced blooming, formulas where nitrogen is less than or equal to phosphorus can work well. Granular fertilizer should be applied evenly along the drip line of shrubbery. Providers should avoid applications if the shrubs show signs of drought stress.
Yellowstone has been taking steps to move our client properties to the forefront of sustainable landscaping. A huge part of that process is mindful techniques like integrated pest management. This pest control strategy protects the environment and people’s health. The goal is to create a healthy landscape environment that’s never inviting to pests or disease.
Yellowstone staff members are educated about comprehensive landscape health, regardless of their role in the service team. That means they know which actions to avoid that could leave an opening for pests or disease (i.e., improper pruning cuts or damaging a newly planted tree with a string trimmer).
Regular landscape inspections by our trained professionals help prevent pest and disease infestations. Consistent monitoring means insecticides and fungicides are only used when absolutely necessary. Our experienced, licensed professionals use only the exact product amounts to do the job, which further reduces chemical use.
Yellowstone Landscape clients rest easy knowing they’ll always get the best shrubs for business landscapes. The process is simple yet thorough. Each client has a dedicated account manager who does regular property walk-throughs. Managers use top-of-the-industry checklists that have been developed and improved ever since we launched in 2008.
Of course, the detailed soil testing we perform helps ensure shrubs remain healthy even when undesirable weather arrives. Site-specific analysis takes this to another level, ensuring each plant is a fit for the property’s unique environment. This includes microclimates (like this example) that other providers overlook or don’t have experience managing.
Our company knows property managers need to maximize their landscaping budget. That’s why we invest heavily in sustainable planning (see the following examples):
With over 70 branches, Yellowstone Landscape has unmatched access to horticulture experts across the U.S. This matters greatly to clients because they don’t have to deal with unexpected costs and frustrations due to poor installation outcomes. Understanding local climates, weather pattern evolutions, and soil nuances helps Yellowstone protect customers' landscape elements.
And that’s not all of the advantages our clients enjoy. We also offer:
What do proper landscape planning and maintenance efficiency mean to your bottom line?
If you’ve made it this far, you now know more about spring-flowering shrubs for commercial properties than many in your industry. We hope you can use that knowledge to your advantage as you consider springtime installations. The possibilities we discussed will help you choose shrubs that do more than provide high-end aesthetics, as they reduce maintenance and use of valuable resources.
And with the expert tips we provided about choosing the right spring-flowering shrubs for your climate, you should enjoy longer life from newly installed plants. Mix in the noted sustainability factors to give your landscape the best chance to be remarkable for years to come.
As we conclude this post, be sure to save those nine specific shrub recommendations for your region that we detailed. Are there other amazing flowering shrubs that could’ve made that list?
No doubt about it. And with each species, you often get more unique ways to showcase them, depending on your property and landscaping goals for this year.
We'd love to share more low-maintenance flowering shrub recommendations with you, so contact Yellowstone Landscape for a consultation today.