Everybody thinks about flowers out front when it’s summer, but when it comes to attracting attention to your commercial property, think bigger.
We’re talking year-round color that makes people stop, shop, dine, linger, lease, and want to move in.
What is seasonal color landscaping?
It means celebrating every season on your commercial property with vibrant, colorful, attention-grabbing flowers and plants. Red tulips in spring. Vivid pink petunias in summer. Orange mums in fall. Red berries in winter.
In this piece, we'll discuss:
- Drip Irrigation for Planters
- Great Spots for Seasonal Color Installation
- Using One Mass of Color for Impact
- Planter Pot Design Ideas
- Using Foliage for Seasonal Color
- Fall & Winter Seasonal Color Landscaping
- Choosing One Great Color Theme
Bring on the color, no matter the season, and your customers, visitors and potential renters will notice.
So, how to wow your customers and visitors with seasonal color landscaping?
Get ready for some great tips and trends.
Add Drip Irrigation and Drains to Planters
Big planters packed with impressive flowers and plants are a key element of your seasonal color landscaping in Idaho Falls but they need frequent watering, which is a big pain. And the excess water runs all over the place.
Here’s a genius planter pot design idea: Outback crews can build in drip irrigation and drainage to your planters, making them not just beautiful, but low maintenance.
If you add this feature at the beginning of a project we can plumb the pots so that they don’t leak all over your sidewalks or parking lots.
The pots are piped to drains below and irrigation pros install a separate irrigation zone so the planters’ irrigation can be controlled separately.
(If you connect your planters to an existing drip line, they might not get the right amount of water.)
You get well-maintained pots for your annual flower design, without the hassle and mess.
Great Spots for Seasonal Color Installation
Where to put all this great seasonal color landscaping?
- Make it count. Add bright masses or intriguing pops of color where people will really notice:
- Add annual flower bed designs out front, to attract attention from the street
- Highlight your signage
- Place planters packed with blooms at your doorways and entrances
Install raised planting bed designs in courtyards, outdoor dining areas, or seating areas where people plop down to relax. Raised beds bring the beauty to eye level.
Use One Mass of Color for Impact
One of the latest annual flower design ideas makes a great impression and keeps things easy: use one color of flower, massed for impact.
This trend is especially great for commercial properties, which want to be noticed from the road, by people passing by fast. One big expanse of flowers in a high-impact color makes a big statement in an annual flower bed design.
Think hundreds of vivid pink petunias, which are superstars when it comes to attracting attention from a distance.
Go Big with Planter Pot Design Ideas
Supersize containers make an instant impressive impact — perfect for commercial properties like hotels, office buildings and shopping plazas.
In the summer, large tropical plants add drama. Think banana trees or elegant palms. Once the cool weather moves in, big planters can show off arborvitae, boxwood or holly. Add twinkling white lights and you're ready for the holidays.
Innovative, artistic professional planter design draws passers-by in for a closer look. Be creative. Start with a tall, frilly ornamental grass to anchor the design. Add a mounding sweet potato vine with its big, bright leaves, pop in a cheerful geranium and an intriguing speckled coleus. Finish it off with a trailing golden creeping jenny that will spill over the sides.
Many commercial properties lack green space. Filled with vibrant plants and eye-catching blooms, big containers add a cool, calming dose of nature. They can even hide ugly eyesores or create privacy.
Focus on Foliage
Seasonal color landscaping doesn’t always mean flowers.
Don’t underestimate the eye-catching appeal of containers packed with intriguing foliage. No flowers — just leaves with striking colors, great texture, and intriguing variegation.
Pick one color — maybe chartreuse — then group fantastic foliage plants all in that hue, but with different shapes and textures.
Green sweet potato vine boasts that vibrant hue, grows like crazy and is super sturdy.
Partial to purple? Sweet potato vine comes in purple, too, and so do lots of other high-interest foliage plants.
Annual grasses are great for all-foliage containers. Pennisetum rubrum or Fireworks varieties offer a fun purple or pink punch. Grasses offer intriguing textures, colors, and frilly plumes.
Or, go tropical for a vacation vibe with banana trees and stunning colorful canna.
This type of professional planter design is especially great next to an entrance, where visitors can see and appreciate the leaf texture, color, or fun variegation up close.
Don’t Forget Fall & Winter
Seasonal color landscaping in Boise and Idaho Falls means all four seasons. You want to impress customers, visitors and potential renters year-round.
Some plants don’t even look their best until fall, helping to extend your property color show.
Ornamental cabbage and kale come in beautiful shades of green and purple, and offer interesting ruffly texture.
Add a red twig dogwood for showy coral-red branches or a holly with glossy green leaves and bright red berries for winter interest. They both look striking against white snow.
Don’t forget intriguing planter pot design ideas for winter, too. Pine branches are more interesting than you think. Some pine needles are long, some are fuzzy, some have pine cones. The lacy texture of juniper with its deep blue berries is completely different than fluffy white pine boughs.
A mixture of evergreen boughs, tall, twiggy branches, and sprigs of crimson berries add fun holiday flair but will carry your containers right through until spring.
Pick One Great Color for the Year
Love red? Lean into it with your seasonal color installations.
Mass red tulips on your property in the spring, then replace them with red begonias for summer.
Carry the same color through the seasons, but with different plants.
Bonus points if you match the color to your company branding.
Landscape Maintenance Matters
Once you install your great seasonal color landscaping you can’t just forget about it. Landscape maintenance from a professional company is the way to keep your seasonal color displays looking their best, from installation to season's end.
Those massive beds of red begonias need weeding. Without regular trimming, grass tends to creep into your annual flower bed design — not a tidy look.
Those stunning containers of foliage need regular fertilizing.
Everything needs irrigation to keep it fresh, healthy and thriving, especially in the heat of summer.
Ready for Seasonal Color Landscaping That Wows? Trust Outback Landscape
The expert crews at Outback Landscape love installing bright, seasonal color, knowing it elevates the entire property and makes everybody happy.
Seasonal color landscaping for Idaho Falls that will impress year-round? We’re on it.
Then our crews provide skilled maintenance services to keep the blooms looking their best all season long.
We’ll design a rotating planting schedule so your grounds look their colorful best at any time of year.
We serve residential and commercial properties in Idaho Falls, Rexburg and Pocatello, Idaho, as well as Bonneville, Madison and Bannock counties.
Call us at 208-656-3220 or fill out the contact form to schedule a no-obligation meeting with one of our team members. We can’t wait to hear from you.