From reducing landfill waste to lowering overall material costs, there are so many benefits to landscaping with recycled materials. There are several different ways to landscape your property with recycled materials. First, you can purchase sustainable products made from recycled materials. For instance, our planters, lighting fixtures, trash cans, and site furnishings are made from up to 100% post-consumer recycled …
The Best Coastal Lighting Fixtures: What Lighting Fixtures Can Survive Harsh Coastal Climates?
Are you searching for coastal lighting fixtures that won’t rust or corrode? If your home or business is near the ocean, you cannot rely on just any type of lighting fixture. While many popular lamppost materials are prone to rust and corrosion, that’s the last thing you want in a coastal environment. After all, coastal lighting fixtures are subject to …
CFL VS LED Lighting: Why CFL Lights Are Believed To Cause Health Problems
Before the invention of LED light bulbs, people used CFL light bulbs as an energy efficient solution. To this day many people still utilize CFL light bulbs, but there is some controversy regarding how safe these fluorescent-based bulbs are. According to some researchers, CFL bulbs are dangerous to your health for a number of reasons. More on that later, but …
What You Need To Know About LED Parking Lot Lighting
Converting your parking lot to an LED lighting system offers a wide variety of benefits to all different types of industries, including schools, real estate offices, apartment complexes, and so forth. Upgrading your parking lot lighting to LED makes the space look better, but it also makes the space safer by brightening it up considerably. LED lighting also saves you …
How Often Should You Replace Commercial Planters?
The frequency in which you replace your commercial planters has a lot to do with the planters you purchase, the materials planters are made of, and the elements they are exposed to. Traditional plastic planters may have to be replaced every couple of years, more often than the plants housed inside! That’s because cheaply made plastic is very prone to …
8 Common Coastal Landscaping Mistakes
Some common coastal landscaping mistakes include planting too much grass, using fertilizers with high levels of nitrogen, and chopping down trees on an ocean bluff. One of the reasons it’s so easy to make mistakes is that coastal landscaping is faced with additional pressures, largely from strong winds, as well as high moisture and salinity levels. Here are some common …
10 Tips To Prevent Landscape Graffiti
The very best way to prevent landscape graffiti is to use as many non-porous planters, receptacles, lighting fixtures and site furnishings as possible. Other ways to prevent landscape graffiti include adding security fencing or planting thorny bushes around the perimeter of your building. There are many tactics you can use in order to decrease the likelihood your property is targeted …
How To Maintain Large Commercial Planters
Large commercial planters need to be as easy to maintain as possible, that’s why we make large commercial planters that require little to no maintenance. Most other planters on the market require extensive maintenance or else they begin to break down within as little as a few seasons. Planters create a welcoming and well-maintained appearance for your business or home, …
8 Best Indoor Plants To Remove Air Pollutants & Improve Your Office Environment
Some indoor plants combat a wide range of indoor air pollutants including formaldehyde, benzene, ammonia and xylene, thus improving the overall health and wellbeing of your office and staff. Not only do plants clean up the air, but research also shows that by adding plants to your office you improve moral and overall performance. 8 Of The Best Indoor Plants …
Top 3 2017 Landscaping Trends For Coastal Landscaping & Eco-Friendly Landscaping
The top 2017 landscaping trends are modern, stylish, functional and eco-friendly. As times change, technology progresses and we become more attuned with how to meet our needs and nature’s needs in one swoop, we continue to see awesome changes in the landscaping industry. There are so many different landscaping trends that it’d be impossible to cover them all in one …