Meet Residential Senior Landscape Designer Tom Vollmer

Meet Residential Senior Landscape Designer Tom Vollmer

Your Greater Chicago area backyard is your escape from stress and busy days. You want a place that’s designed specifically for your goals and your needs. You want your family to be able to enjoy the space, lounge by the patio, indulge in dinner outdoors, and delight in making memories around the backyard fireplace or water feature.

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How to Help Your Grass Recover from Drought This Fall

How to Help Your Grass Recover from Drought This Fall

You might notice that it’s getting pretty hot out there.

Sure, summer might be great for you; you can escape the sweltering humidity by sneaking inside an air conditioned building. But have you thought about what the intense heat and dryness can do to your residential or commercial lawn?

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Why Fall is a Great Time to Landscape in Frankfort, Mokena & New Lenox

Why Fall is a Great Time to Landscape in Frankfort, Mokena & New Lenox

As the weather cools and fall approaches, you may start to think less about your landscape.

But this is actually a great time of year to think about landscape installation in Frankfort, IL. Autumn’s shorter days, less intense sunlight, more rain and cooler temperatures all provide a better planting environment.

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When to Hire Snow Removal Services: Advice for Industrial Facility Managers

When to Hire Snow Removal Services: Advice for Industrial Facility Managers

As an industrial facility manager, you never know what to expect with Greater Chicago winters. It can go from just a dusting of snow for weeks to multiple inches and a massive sheet of ice seemingly overnight.

It makes you wonder how much of a priority you should give to planning for it and ideally what time of year to hire a snow removal company.

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How to Increase the Lifespan of Shrubs on a Commercial Property

How to Increase the Lifespan of Shrubs on a Commercial Property

Whether you manage an office park, retail center, industrial facility, or other type of commercial property, you likely notice how shrubs can make a big difference in adding pops of color, unique texture, and interesting elements to the landscape. 

But there are so many options out there, which makes choosing commercial shrubbery overwhelming. You certainly don’t want to install plants that don’t do well in your space or make your property look bad.

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6 Benefits of Adding Flowers & Plants to a Commercial Landscape

6 Benefits of Adding Flowers & Plants to a Commercial Landscape

Everyone likes a little color in their lives. This is especially true with landscapes in commercial settings.

Amazing blooms bursting with bountiful, bright, bold hues add visual appeal and intrigue to your Greater Chicago office park, retail center, industrial property, warehouse or other commercial site.

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6 Secrets of Low-Maintenance Commercial Landscaping

6 Secrets of Low-Maintenance Commercial Landscaping

A commercial facility is a busy and hectic site, and, as a property manager, you have a lot to do.

The challenge is that your plate is always full, and some things take way too much time. This means efficiency is the name of the game in order for you to get everything done.

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4 Tips to Maintaining a Commercial Landscape in Summer

4 Tips to Maintaining a Commercial Landscape in Summer

Greater Chicago commercial properties are busy places – especially in summer.

People are shopping in outdoor retail centers, attending concerts in outdoor venues, taking their work breaks outside instead of inside, and enjoying some fresh air everywhere they go.

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