Suddenly, it's Landscape Season!

Landscape Season is that time when, on any given weekday morning, you step outside your office and hear the roar of lawn equipment – the cutting of the grass, the whacking of weeds, the pruning of shrubbery, the edging of verges, and the blowing of clippings back and forth. After a couple of hours of noise and disruption and you’re left with a beautifully manicured property that’s ready to greet the rest of the week.

Here just outside Atlanta at Can You Imagine’s offices, Landscape Season is off and running. Those frost-stricken entryways at community gates are getting scores of color-matched tulips troweled into them, instant beauty and color to replace the drabness of winter. Think of it as spring cleaning for the landscape. These little floral miracles – be they tulips or daffodils or dwarf daylilies or whatever your climate will tolerate – account for a significant portion of your budget. Those landscape visages are the last thing your residents see as they head out for the workday and the first thing they see when they come home. Your investment in that landscaping comes back to you in residents’ pride and contentment with how their homes look.

The way we see it, it’s always Landscape Season and what you are cultivating is resident happiness. Just as a beautifully maintained property reinforces the decision residents made to select your community as their home, so does a well-thought-out gifting program. The simple pleasure of an unexpected, quality gift to mark an anniversary or a major life event reminds valued residents that it’s not just an apartment, it is their home.

So, have you dusted the winter blahs off of your residents’ emotional landscape yet? Have you planted those reminders about how valued they are as a part of your community? Get busy – it’s Landscape Season! Oh, and while you are at it, welcome that hardworking crew of landscape contractors back to the lawnmowers with a token of your appreciation as well. May we suggest something like our Color-Dipped Aluminum Tumblers, complete with your community’s logo, to help keep them hydrated?