5 Ways Landscaping Can Enhance Curb Appeal for Office Complexes

If you’re in charge of an office complex, you know the struggle -- many office buildings that used to bustle with activity sit empty, as workers continue to work from home.

Competition is tough out there. Newer offices with high-end amenities are often the first to appeal to tenants. 

You want to be noticed, too. But you don’t want to bust your tight budget by adding pricey perks. 

Look to landscaping. It plays a huge part in attracting attention, from bright and bold color to a green healthy lawn to a proactive maintenance plan that keeps your landscaping healthy and appealing. 

How to improve your business curb appeal?

Keep reading to find out more, including: 

A proactive team on your side 

Seasonal flowers for color 

Cost-saving ideas

Healthy turf 

Keeping things tidy

1. A Proactive Plan Keeps Business Curb Appeal Fresh

Your office building curb appeal can go from great to gross fast. 

All it takes is a crop of unsightly weeds, a pest infestation, ratty neglected flowers or wayward trash to make a terrible first impression.

You want a landscaping company that puts proactivity first, actively looking for signs of any potential problems then hopping on solutions fast.
 
Level Green account managers are on it, with a mission to pounce on problems and head off issues before they become real concerns.

They visit your property frequently, walking your site and inspecting everything from turf health to seasonal color to your hardscaping to your irrigation system.

It’s not enough to just keep a property maintained. Our goal is always to make it better, and that includes boosting that all-important business curb appeal, from attractive plants to healthy green turf to extra attention needed to keep things tidy. 

2. Seasonal Flowers for Color

Bright, inviting beds of flowers attract big attention, drawing customers and tenants to your property.

Summer blooms are a no-brainer, but curb appeal is a year-round challenge, so keep the flower power going as the seasons change.
 
Plan for new flowers in March, May, and September. When fall rolls around, a fall mum rotation adds impressive color right until frost. (More on this in a bit.)

 Then, bring on the festive spirit with holiday decor like evergreens, berries and lights to add color, texture and cheer into the winter. 

Prioritize the spots people see first, like your main entrances and signage.
 
Masses of color in beds and at signs attract attention. Don’t forget the power of big, super-sized planters, too. 

Colorful foliage can do the job, too, and you don’t have to worry about blooms fading. Coleus offers striking, exotic colorful foliage that lasts for months.

Mums the Word

When it comes to fall business curb appeal, mums are your best friends. 

Level Green pros can help you plan varieties with staggered blooms from August right up until frost, giving you wow-worthy color for months.

Plant masses of mums for impressive color at entrances and around  signage and pop them in planters for up-close impact.

3. Cost-Saving Ideas for Office Building Curb Appeal 

You’re competing with lots of other office buildings for valuable tenants. You need to look like the kind of place people happily come to work. But money is tight. 

How to improve your business curb appeal without busting your budget? 

Easy-care Perennials

 Traditional curb appeal fixes like bountiful annual flowers can make a real dent in your budget, from the need for frequent replacement to the large amounts of water needed to keep them thriving. 

But they’re not the only plants that bring appreciative eyes to your property. 

Replace fussier flowers with lower maintenance perennials and graceful ornamental grasses that still attract attention and boost your business curb appeal, but with less maintenance and expense. 

Smart Irrigation

That healthy green turf that lends such a boost to your business curb appeal takes water to thrive. Make sure you’re not wasting any. 

A smart irrigation controller takes charge of efficient, weather-based watering that makes sure your turf gets exactly the water it needs, with no waste. 

Smart irrigation controllers don’t start up your system just based on time of day. They’re smarter than that. They use local weather forecasts and your unique and changing landscape conditions to tailor watering schedules perfect for your property.
 
You can save a considerable amount of water — as much as 30 percent — because your smart controller is monitoring weather conditions all the time. If it’s raining, it won’t turn on. If it’s too cold, and the water might freeze, it won’t turn on.

Meanwhile, you don’t have to continually monitor your properties’ irrigation schedules. It’s handled.

4. Get Business Curb Appeal with Impressive Healthy Turf

An expanse of healthy lawn is a reassuring sign to the public that your property is well tended. 

That means a four-application fertilization and weed control program that gives your property targeted attention from early spring right through fall. 

Make sure your lawn needs are covered, with spring pre-emergent crabgrass killer and post-emergent broadleaf weed killer to target weeds like dandelion and clover.

Level Green crews visit during summer weed season to spot spray only for any broadleaf weeds that have popped up. No need to spray everything just for the sake of spraying. Spot spray is better for the environment, but still targets weeds.

A final round of fertilizer goes down in October or November to help your turf store nutrients for the winter and emerge strong and healthy in the spring.

Lawn curb appeal: handled. 

5. Keep Things Tidy for Business Curb Appeal 

Debris happens, and a messy lawn makes your whole property look unsightly and neglected. Curb appeal? Gone. 

Lock in a landscape maintenance contract that includes a visit in February or March for spring clean-up. 

Crews will remove leaves and debris, pull weeds, and get your property ready for the growing season. They rake any old leaves leftover from fall into the lawn and go over them with a mulching mower. That breaks them down into nutritious bits beneficial to your turf.

Count on two or three visits in the fall, too, to clear leaves and debris — one visit before Thanksgiving and one before Christmas.

In-between, portering service is a lifesaver for your property’s curb appeal.

When Level Green mowing crews arrive at your property for your routine maintenance, they might see a stray candy wrapper or discarded plastic bottle on the lawn. They scoop that kind of litter up routinely, before they mow. That’s part of their job. 

Portering is an additional service that takes care of the debris that goes behind the ordinary: Discarded belongings left on the curb of your apartment complex. Rotting pallets that nobody else has hauled away.

It doesn’t take much to wreck your business curb appeal. Extra eyes — and hands — on your property makes a huge difference. 

How to Improve Your Business Curb Appeal? Trust Level Green

It’s tough out there, with more available office space than there are tenants to fill it. 

Put your best face forward with smart, appealing features that make your place the spot workers want to be.
 
We’ve got you covered, 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.