Sports Turf and Ground Cover Installers and Service

When it comes to sports turf and groundcover, many business owners think they can handle installation and maintenance on their own.  After all, both groundcover and sports turf look amazingly simple.  It is easy to forget that there are many details that go into maintaining a beautiful lawn, and the help of a professional turf maintenance service can be very valuable.  Western Landscape Maintenance Plus can provide you with professional sports turf and ground cover installers and service for your San Diego or Orange County business.

Homeowners associations or HOAs may want to completely redesign the landscape in a large complex on a periodic basis.  Additionally, sports complexes and apartments require frequent updating and constant maintenance.  However, replacing all the turf, plants and other landscape features for a large commercial property can be a huge and frustrating proposition.  Many HOAs, sports complex and commercial property owners look to a professional landscape firm to take over the stress and work involved in refurbish landscaping.  Furthermore, commercial landscaping maintenance is often complicated and involves coordination of a vast number of jobs that can best be handled by a professional landscape company.

Western Landscape Maintenance Plus has made their business out of serving the HOA, sports and commercial community.  Owner Marty Dieckmeyer operates the business in a hands-on manner.  Marty is a landscape architect who is also a licensed contractor.  He took a landscape architecture degree from UCLA nearly 35 years ago and has been in the landscape maintenance business ever since.  There are few landscaping issues that Marty has not seen!

Western Landscape Maintenance Plus manages many HOA and large commercial properties as well as sports areas.  Marty can help commercial property owners with every aspect of landscape management from design to final execution of a plan and the overall maintenance of the new landscaping.  Because Marty has been a practicing landscape architect for so many years, he can visualize a project from a design standpoint, unlike many “maintenance” companies.

Water management is also a concern for many California commercial property owners.  Choosing drought-tolerant plants is one way to lower overall water costs and help the environment as well.  Conserving water with low-water plants takes skill in choosing the right plants, placing them in the right locations and designing landscaping that takes advantage of natural water sources.  Western Landscape Maintenance Plus can help commercial companies design and implement landscaping that will allow for simple maintenance.  Western Landscape Maintenance takes the burden off of commercial property owners and handles every aspect of design and maintenance for these owners so that they can forget the hassle of landscape issues.

Landscaping in San Diego

San Diego has a relatively mild climate with very little difference between the average low temperature of 48 degrees Fahrenheit and the average high temperature of 77 degrees Fahrenheit.  Because the weather is so temperate, certain plants are better suited to the climate than others.  Further, the rain in San Diego is, by and large, limited to the winter months.  Therefore, during the long months of summer when a drought may occur, it is important to have plants that do not need constant irrigation. Drought-resistant plants are often a better choice for San Diego businesses than fussy, thirsty plants.

Many landscape maintenance companies that serve San Diego businesses offer only minimal service and perform only the very basic landscaping chores.  Western Landscape Maintenance Plus offers professional landscaping services in San Diego including planning, maintenance, repair and construction to ensure that your business receives all the services needed to keep your grounds looking wonderful.

Landscaping in Orange County

Orange County weather is also temperate, with highs averaging no more than 89 degrees Fahrenheit and lows of no lower than 47 degree Fahrenheit.  Orange County also has rainy weather in the winter months and dry summers.  Therefore, a great deal of maintenance landscape in Orange County hinges on choosing plants that can tolerate dry conditions as well as wet and that do not require freezing temperatures to flower or fruit.

While Orange County and San Diego share a variety of plants and landscaping features, there may be differences between appropriate options for businesses in each county, depending on where those businesses are located.  Businesses located far to the west in San Diego County may require more desert-friendly plants than those on the coast in Orange County, for example.

Western Landscape Maintenance Plus can give you the perfect Orange County commercial landscaping plan to meet your business’s needs.  No matter how large or small your property, Western Landscape Maintenance Plus can offer you service including lawn maintenance, tree maintenance or removal, and a variety of other landscaping services.

Installing and Maintaining Sports Turf

Sports turf refers to any substance that is used on sports fields, whether it is natural or artificial grass.  While many major sports fields used artificial turf, most experts agree that it is better for both the environment and the players to use natural grass where possible.

When you need turf maintenance services, turf installers or other services for sports turf, contact Western Landscape Maintenance Plus.  We have all the skill and experience necessary to help you install and maintain turf for your sporting arena or area and keep it looking great.

Maintaining athletic fields can be time-consuming and costly.  Without a regular maintenance schedule, your athletic fields will soon require expensive interventions to bring them back up to their proper condition.  It is very important to consult experts in the field of turf maintenance if you want to keep your sports areas looking good and serving their intended purpose.

For example, it is not a good idea to simply mow sports turf on the same schedule as other grass.  Sports turf should not be cut very drastically, either; a good rule of thumb is never to cut more than one third of the new growth at a time in order to keep the grass green and fresh.  Cutting too severely can “burn” or injure the grass, causing it to turn brown.

Additionally, sports fields should be mown according to a varying pattern.  By changing the direction of the mowing each time, the chance of overcutting and damaging the grass is lessened.

Choosing the Right Groundcover

Choosing the right groundcover, whether it is grass or some other plant, can be challenging.  If you choose an aggressive ground cover such as ice plant or licorice, you could accidentally squeeze out other plants.  Invasive species in particular are difficult to control as they have few natural predators and often grow very rapidly.  Therefore it is extremely important that you take advice from those who routinely pick out and plant groundcover in order to choose the right plant and the right maintenance schedule.

There are very good reasons to choose ground cover for your company’s landscaping.  While large beds filled with mulch are good choices close to buildings or in island settings, you generally want some type of ground cover for your larger, open areas.  When you have large open areas, it is easy for soil erosion to set in without good groundcover.  These plants also help keep moisture from evaporating from the soil during dry seasons and, if chosen correctly, can give your soil needed nutrients and provide habitat for beneficial insect and animal species.

However, choosing the right ground cover plants requires a knowledge of the southern California plant culture and what plants work well in certain areas.  For example, there are some ground cover plants that need full sun while other groundcovers love the shade.  It is also possible to mix ground covers so that you have certain blooms and flowers throughout the year.

Western Landscape Maintenance Plus offers your business one of the simplest ways to maintain your lawn or ground cover areas effortlessly.  Let us plan, install and maintain your groundcover and you will never again have to worry about dead grass, invasive plants or other problems.

Why Should I Hire A Professional Landscape Maintenance Company?

Landscaping, particularly in the professional world, is not something you can afford to take for granted.  Not only does your landscape need to be immaculate and tidy but it should also invite your visitors into your building with a look that matches the image you want to portray.  You must also worry about maintenance issues such as watering, weeding, trimming, whether or not to use pesticides and rotating plants occasionally.

Western Landscape Maintenance Plus can handle all of your professional commercial landscape maintenance needs, whether you have a sports field, a large campus or a big apartment complex.  Let us help you choose the right landscaping products and services to make your commercial landscaping worries a thing of the past.