When planning your commercial landscape, don't overlook the value of one key element: bushes. The right shrubs and bushes will help you appeal to customers, protect your property, and prevent problems. How? Here are a few of the many services provided to any business by the right bushes. 

1. Year-Round Color

The right bushes will add lushness and vibrancy to a commercial landscape no matter what the season. Winter is often a struggle for landscape owners since most things die back and snow may even blanket the ground. But some bushes continue to thrive when smaller and less hardy flowers struggle. Look for winter colors from dark evergreens, winter blooms like fringe flowers, or the colorful base of red twig dogwood. 

2. Deterring Trespassers

Could some bushes help boost your security? Yes. Beautiful varieties of bougainvillea, palms, and roses, for example, all have hidden thorns that will make loiterers and trespassers think twice about coming too near. Plant them around windows to keep people away from these risk points. 

3. Soil Protection

Protecting your soil protects your business. Improper drainage and changes in grading funnel rain and snow toward the foundation, causing cracks and settling. Erosion destroys the vital top layer of soil where anything grows. Pooling and eroded soil also create hazards for customers and others. The deeper and more stable roots of shrubs help keep your soil in place, slow down runoff, and filter water. 

4. Pest Control

How can shrubs contribute to a better environment for everyone? Their pest control effects. Lavender not only looks great, but it helps reduce flies and mosquitoes. Cinquefoil is loved by predator insects that will help reduce your population of unwanted pests. And citronella grass contains a natural mosquito repellant. Target your particular pest problems with the right organic remedies. 

5. Crowd Control

Help people navigate around your site and stay where you want them with the subtle use of bushes. Rather than install an unwelcoming fence, move people along a path or prevent them from traipsing across your landscape with a few strategically-placed bushes. Bushes like hydrangeas provide bold and beautiful colors while growing tall enough to keep people out of an area or on a path. 

Where to Start

Ready to add bushes to your landscape that will help you manage traffic, decrease unwanted visitors, and keep your site looking great all year long? Begin by meeting with a local commercial landscaping designer today.