URBAN AG For businesses looking to plant annual color, fungi and diseases are a regular difficulty. If a particular strain of flower becomes widespread for some reason, (say, because it’s wildly popular) that provides increased opportunities for plant diseases to spread. Keeping abreast of the most prevalent problems, and which plants they affect, can help you avoid expensive headaches.
Finding inspiration
This will also require you to change up your game from time to time, as one plant or another becomes a problem, but change is part of the joy of seasonal color displays. What’s going to be the most striking varies from person to person, from property to property, and from year to year. Inspiration for a layout can come from all sorts of places. Jones looks to interior design for cues about what’s going to be hot next. “There are so many things that are popular right now,” she said. “There are a lot of very muted color pallets. Succulents are extremely popular indoors right now, which will translate into outdoor designs.”
Jones clarified that she doesn’t think that people will start putting in succulents, but utilizing their colors in outdoor designs. Stoffield relies on keeping a weather eye out for new and interesting plants to find new material. “Sometimes, I’m walking a street and see something that I’ve never seen before. I take a picture of it, go back to my office and try to figure out what it is,” he said. He usually finds that it’s some exotic tropical that would need winter storage to survive, but occasionally it’s something he can use.
Reprinted with permission from Irrigation & Green Industry magazine.
The purpose of most landscapes is to enhance nature by applying an unnatural degree of order to it. The landscape contractor waters, fertilizes and mows to achieve this effect, to render nature into art. Color displays offer a chance for contractors to show their creativity in the most direct fashion—as a collaborative artistic process between them and the client, which benefits all involved. So the relevant question is, do you have a colorful vision?
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UAC MAGAZINE | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017
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