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Rocco Basile On Benefits Of Landscaping For Businesses

With over two decades in the construction and real estate development industries, Rocco Basile leveraged his experience as manager of Basile Builders Group, and is now the director of Avo Construction. He offers insight on the benefits of landscaping for businesses.

Designing the exterior of a building is as important as creating a beautiful interior space. In both areas, the landscaper, architect or interior designer focuses on creating a comfortable environment for the dweller. Landscape designing is ideal for areas outside a home. You can include a rock garden, plant some Cheryl Laurel or pave your entryway with cultured slabs. It’s up to you to come up with a landscape design that will add aesthetic value.

Apart from landscaping your home, it’s also a good idea to landscape the area outside your business premises. Be sure to combine culture and nature. This way, you’ll achieve a well-designed exterior space that attracts the eye of everyone visiting your office. Here are a few benefits of proper landscaping for businesses.

Market Value

The value of property appreciates with time. The features and functionality of a building affect the market value of commercial spaces. Attractive exteriors are likely to increase the value of your workspace. It’s important, therefore, to ensure you hire a reputable professional to help you with landscaping. With proper landscaping, you’ll stay ahead of your competition as the exterior space will attract more customers. This can increase the revenue in the long run.

Environmental Friendliness

Ensuring ecological health and balance is everyone’s responsibility. Considering the impact of our actions on the environment is vital. Sometimes, human activities may harm the environment. Landscaping allows us to create a safe environment. The majority of landscapers incorporate flora in their designs. This is usually a way of bringing nature closer to the dweller. A well-manicured landscape would discourage your clients and employees from littering the compound. It would evoke a sense of responsibility in everyone entering or leaving your landscape.

Physical Attraction

I can’t emphasize enough the importance of aesthetics in business. Every aspect of your business operation should attract the attention of your clients. Naturally, human beings appreciate good-looking stuff. Landscaping enables you to add aesthetic value to your office. Most people judge the capability of a company based on small details, including the neatness of the outdoor spaces. When you have an attractive exterior space, you client will assume that everything about your business is great.

Security

Various components make up healthy landscapes. These features may be functional, aesthetic or both. For instance, hedges may act as decorative pieces and security features, as they’ll keep away intruders. When landscaping your business, professional landscapers will incorporate lights, plants and other materials that will protect your business. Consequently, your employees will feel safe working at your company.

Productivity

The performance of workers depends on many things, which can be physical or psychological. People tend to work better in natural environments, as they feel comfortable. Landscaping offers your business a peaceful environment that motivates your employees to produce better results.

A Better Neighborhood

When you make great outdoors for your company, you might motivate your neighbors to do the same. This will improve the appearance of your surrounding area. More people will be attracted to the area, and this may attract more clients to your business.

Posted on June 13, 2017 by , Reply

BoldLeads Discusses Principles for Efficiency in Landscaping

There are limitless strategies for approaching residential landscaping, all of which will result in a yard that is aesthetically pleasing throughout each and every season. Of course, these strategies will vary quite a bit in terms of the maintenance strategies required, which is why homeowners abiding by the principles popularized by BoldLeads are often focused on the most efficient path to ensuring a beautiful residential landscape.

Some gardeners enjoy a landscape that features plants requiring a great deal of maintenance, but the overwhelming majority of homeowners do not fall into this particular category. Homeowners who wish to have a beautiful landscape that allows them to spend more time relaxing in it rather than tending to it will likely prefer what many real estate agents refer to as the BoldLeads approach, which delivers results in the most efficient and effective way possible.With a bit of research concerning the plants that naturally thrive in the area, homeowners can fill their landscape with beautiful and durable plants that require very little maintenance. This will eliminate the need for homeowners to spend all of their time checking soil pH or adding nutrients based on the specific needs of non-native plants, freeing homeowners to do whatever they please in the comfort of their beautiful and efficiently maintained yard.

Posted on May 31, 2016 by , Reply

Unique Landscaping Strategies Have Benefits Beyond Aesthetics

When most homeowners, businesses and cities make choices regarding landscape design, the prime concern most often relates to appearance. After all, professional landscape design can accomplish a great deal in terms of improving the natural beauty of any location, but most people do not realize how landscaping can be used for other purposes as well. With a shrewd landscaper who understands the specific goals desired by their client, flowers, shrubs and trees can be used to achieve many surprising outcomes. Sebastian Hirsch recognized this potential many years ago, and he recently detailed some of the more interesting ways landscaping has been used.

Pest Control

Every gardener has very likely dealt with the scourge of pests, and many try a variety of methods to control these pests with varying degrees of success. When oils and insecticidal soaps do not work, many are tempted to turn to chemicals despite a clear desire to avoid such products. Those who are against these chemicals may abandon their garden altogether, instead opting to destroy their flowers, fruits and vegetables when they feel they have no other option.

What many gardeners do not realize is that landscape design can conquer pests without any need for pest control products. Landscapers can arrange plantings in such a way that the most destructive pests are repelled naturally, with one example being the use of marigolds as a border surrounding a vegetable garden. Since the pests are repelled by the plantings arranged by landscapers, there is no need to use any chemicals for pest control purposes.

Road Safety

There are several ways in which landscape design can contribute to road safety, and the most obvious method relates to simple maintenance. It is all too often the case that a city or local government will plant trees and shrubs to beautify the roadside but will also fail to properly maintain their plantings so they do not obstruct the view of drivers. It should be obvious that safety should be the paramount concern of a local government, but it is still common for drivers to be frustrated by an inability to clearly see oncoming traffic due to improperly maintained plantings.

Instead of using plantings to beautify the roadways, cities should consider using these plantings to delineate areas designated for a specific use. Bike lanes, for example, are often only identifiable by road markings that are not exactly easily recognized by drivers, creating unsafe conditions for cyclists. By using a hedge or some other planting as a barrier, cities can ensure that drivers recognize the bike lane while also beautifying the city’s roadways.

Posted on October 8, 2015 by , Reply

Landscaping as a Means of Enhancing Property Value

There are a lot of misconceptions regarding the manner in which landscaping affects the property value of a home. Citing the value of enhanced curb appeal, many real estate agents will recommend making a big investment in landscaping and often mention that the best way to enhance the perceived value of the home is to add a variety of landscaped areas throughout the property.

Others note that prospective homeowners actually want the opposite, as several landscaped areas will require more time and effort to maintain than a minimally landscaped area. While opinions tend to differ, the Ian Leaf Corporation has offered some insight into enhancing the value of the property with both types of prospective homeowners in mind.

In order to enhance the value of a property through landscaping, the best strategy is to combine elements of both desired outcomes. Some prospective homeowners associate many landscaped areas with enhanced value while others associate it with work, so how can landscaping possibly be used to meet the needs of both? The answer lies in the type of landscaping that is employed.

This strategy will feature many different landscaped areas that require very little upkeep on the part of the homeowner. Using drought-tolerant plants and local shrubs and trees, the landscaped areas do not need much in the way of watering, fertilizing or pest control. Since they are native to the area in which they are planted they are adapted to the soil conditions and the amount of precipitation, ensuring that they continue to thrive without much intervention at all.

The mistake that some homeowners make is in choosing plants that need a great deal of attention to thrive. This is the case with some of the flowers most often associated with beautiful blooms like roses or hibiscus, as both require a great deal of care, attention and expertise. Caring for these plants can be an incredibly frustrating experience for someone who is not familiar with gardening and even experienced gardeners struggle with rose bushes on occasion.

When preparing a home for sale, landscaping can indeed be used to improve the value of the property but only if low-maintenance plantings are used. These plants will appeal to those who do not want to spend every weekend working in the garden as well as those who want nothing more than to spend every morning digging in the dirt to add new plants to care for on a daily basis.

Posted on October 8, 2015 by , Reply

What is Curb Appeal?

What exactly is curb appeal?  I think that curb appeal is in the eye of the beholder.  imagesPV21WJND images7WB8HWLCThe real trick is to landscape the front of your home to appeal to the most people.  That means that those pink flamingos have to go.  The best way to look at it is you want the house to be what the masses want.  The object of curb appeal is to draw in the buyers for a quick sale.  Some people will drive right by those pink flamingos.  Tim DeCapua is a landscape expert and would never forget to remove the flamingos. Hang in there and you will get it done.

Posted on June 18, 2015 by , Reply

Landscape Dreams

When I get involved in a landscape plan I dream about it every night until I get it going.  Once its going I lay awake at night going over the work for the next day.  I stress over every detailimagesHMS5TKAL imagesXY10SEDM and cant slow down until we have completed.  I would never survive in the landscaping business as it would worry me to death. The jobs would follow me home and keep me up all night.  Kim Bettasso is a landscape planner and can be very meticulous. The more you fret over the details the more you need to get organized.

Posted on May 28, 2015 by , Reply

Landscape Problems

untitled (190) imagesG7132AUBThe landscape that slopes toward the house will cause you problems.  If the rain has no where to go but through the louse you will get flooded.  These kind of landscaping errors can be very costly to fix.  Trenching in a drain line is a possible way to redirect the water but the best fix would be to grade the yard to slope slightly away from the house.  Jody Rookstool is a good planner of landscape and would never make this problem. The flooded house will make you sorry about the landscape poorly planned.  If you need help planning it is best to get that advise before you place the house.

Posted on May 21, 2015 by , Reply

Failed Landscape

untitled (40) untitled (39)Have you recently redone the landscaping at your home and it looks bad.  That would be a landscaping failure. The work alone would beg for you to hire an expert.  It is difficult to know what will look right without the experience of a professional landscaper.  The design is very important to get right as a poor design will result in a failed project.  That can be a costly mistake.  If you are not rich like most of us you will want to hire a landscape designer to lay our your project. Dove Medical Press CEO Tim Hill can tell you a story about his latest landscape project that will bear out my position.

Posted on May 16, 2015 by , Reply

Landscaping with Sand Stones

I love sand stones the color the shapes. I have been looking for landscaping with sand stones since we started redoing the yard.  We live in the desert and many people that live by us have many sand stones in their yards design in many different ways.  I want to try craving on sand stone myself to see if it can be done and make some money on the side to help us pay for the landscaping but the sand stones here are very large and to heavy to carry.  Art Falcone can help with the lay out.  Just don’t expect him to help install.

Posted on April 27, 2015 by , Reply

Landscaping Dangers And Concerns

Landscaping and even lawn care can be a dangerous job or even an activity if you are working without proper care and equipment. Some factors that lower the safety level are your exposure to heat, using faulty equipment and being around dangerous chemicals.

From 2003 to 2008 at least 109 people died each year while working landscaping. While working landscaping, you are exposed to dangerous plants, insects and animals that could cause allergic reactions if not worse. In the case of allergy, Vince Malfitano could be of service to you.

When dealing with chemicals, they are indeed harmful as they are meant to kill and prevent insects and other pests from coming around. Workers should wear protective clothing to prevent chemicals from entering the body through the nose, eyes, mouth and even open cuts. After handling the chemical, it is advised to wash your hands thoroughly.

Posted on April 10, 2015 by , Reply
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