LANDTECH
CONTINENTAL TOWNHOUSE
We have spent many hours inspecting and gathering information to develop a sustainable management plan for your community's needs.
Your proposal is completely online and interactive. We hope you enjoy the experience.
Have fun clicking through the links to learn more about the topics that are most important to you.
We greatly appreciate the opportunity to provide you with our recommendations to manage and improve the landscape at your property.
-Your LandTech Team
COMMUNICATION
Effective communication requires more than an exchange of information. When done right, communication fosters understanding, strengthens relationships, improves teamwork and builds trust.
initial
inspection
A S S E S S M E N T
We have a certified team of landscape professionals with decades of experience. Our team will perform a landscape assessment, which is a complete review of all aspects of your current landscaping.
A C T I O N P L A N
We will generate a detailed report and recommendations of the findings. The initial assessment is used to develop a proper improvement plan which is crucial to maintain and increase the value of your property.
S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y
In addition, throughout the many years of our working relationship we will help mitigate risk by making on-going recommendations for proactive methods of protecting, preparing, and improving all aspects of your landscape.
Instead of reactive communication, like monthly reporting of what was done weeks ago, we provide proactive communication with monthly newsletters. These are educational and informative so you know what to expect that month and why we perform certain tasks at certain times.
service
reports
You will receive a service report each time a service is performed on your property. All of our foreman have an app that is filled out on-site with details and pictures of work performed. These reports are sent to our clients instantly!
master
landscape
plan
An MLP (Master Landscape Plan) is a tool we use to gather, monitor, manage all potential landscape projects or goals for the landscape. MLP’s are an overview of every project and helps prioritize them for the future. No goal can be reached without a plan!
resource management
technology is always evolving.
your landscaping company should too.
As a company, it’s in our blood to question the typical way of doing things. Nothing is perfect, and there is always room for improvement. With our decades of experience maintaining landscapes, we’ve built our own unique systems to do just that. One of the main differences is that our logistics and business operations are governed by the natural needs of the landscape, instead of being restricted by labor budgets. This approach has resulted in better, consistent-looking landscapes, more knowledgeable employees, and happier customers.
We see landscape management as resource management. These are resources that our customers pay for and trust us to utilize responsibly.
Your landscape consists of living things that go through natural cycles throughout the year, and every unique cycle requires different levels of attention at different times. However, the landscape industry as a whole builds their service schedules around a set monthly labor budget. Then they divide the monthly labor budget into rigid weekly time slots. This forces them to service their properties in sections (4-6 week cycle).
Applying equal amounts of effort every week, all year long, to care for dynamic living things just doesn’t make sense.
Breaking your property into weekly sections creates visual differences due to the time between the first and last sections serviced. Blowing and debris cleanup is inconsistent and plants are different sizes, going through different growth stages. The “next section” always looks different than the last and seems to be the section with the most complaints. Residents see an area that was just serviced looking great and wonder why the whole property doesn’t look cared for. This is especially evident if a property’s plant or tree pallet is full of a species that requires a huge amount of effort, at a specific time of year, with a short window to complete it! And on the flip side, the labor you’re paying for is wasted servicing scheduled sections that don’t even need the attention at that time.
“It's a huge,
industry-wide problem!
I see it all the time... Wasted labor,
servicing landscaping
that doesn’t even need it."
-Glen Winter, Owner
LandTech is not restricted by weekly labor schedules and does not separate the property into service sections. Instead, we cater to the individual needs of each species by using knowledge of its natural cycles to our advantage. We then apply this knowledge to schedule and allocate the proper amount of resources and labor needed to complete every unique maintenance task to the entire property all at one time. Our process has proven that servicing the entire property as a whole, is more efficient, and results in beautifully-consistent landscapes.
GRASS management
Grass is the most important part of any landscape.
Our grass management program will produce results.
ALL
INCLUSIVE
PROGRAM
Grass requires proper irrigation, soil, nutrients, and sunlight to grow healthy and green. We've built a program to include all of these.
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Soil Tests
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Nitrogen
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Phosphorous
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Potassium
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Soil Amendments
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Wetting Agents
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Iron
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Acid/PH/Salt Treatments
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Weed Control
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Insecticide
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Fungicide
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Aeration
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De-thatching
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Scalping
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Over-seeding
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Set Mow Heights
IRRIGATION management
Water is an expense.
Let's not waste it.
Education, experience and technology is the only way to maximize the effectivness of this expense without asset loss.
LandTech will conduct an extensive irrigation inspection. Based on this inspection, we will provide well documented recommendations to improve efficiency, reduce water usage, and save money. Intelligent irrigation management will reduce wasteful spending.
IRRIGATION
INSPECTION
We perform a complete inspection in order to determine the current condition of your irrigation system, components, and its ability to efficiently meet the watering needs of all plants and trees on your property.
Based on the information gathered from our inspection, we put together a comprehensive list of recommendations to ensure your system operates as efficiently as possible. These solutions are designed to keep your landscape healthy while reducing wasteful spending.
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Multi page report of current condition
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Pictures & Locations
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Project Estimate
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Return on Investment
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Upgrades to Technology
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Redesigns & Retrofits
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Future Management Tools
MAINLINES
Meters
Backflows
CLOCKS
Age & Condition
Display & Operation
Electrical Outputs
Programming
Manual and Automatic Operation
VALVES
Boxes/Enclosures
Flow Control & Diaphragm
Solenoid/Wiring Connections
Manual and Automatic Operation
GRASS
Sprinkler & Nozzle Size
Coverage & Distribution
Leaks & Function
Precipitation Rates
Overspray
Water Waste
Age & Condition
PLANTS & TREES
Application Rate
Leaks
Emitter Size & Location
Efficiency
Coverage
PLANT management
Our pruning methods promote color, health, and diversity.
Landscape containing attractive plants increases property value and aesthetic appeal.
We utilize natural plant cycles to our advantage.
We seasonally cater to individual plants.
We maximize aesthetic appeal.
We minimize reoccurring maintenance costs.
proper
pruning techniques
Your landscape was professionally designed by a landscape architect to provide color and texture to your landscape throughout the year. To see the natural color and seasonal changes, each plant must be properly maintained according to its unique growth and blooming cycle. Treating every plant the same results in dull, unnatural landscape with little color.
SEASONAL
CUTBACKS
LandTech’s plant maintenance program utilizes the practice of seasonal cutbacks. So what are cutbacks? Cutbacks are also know as renovation pruning or hard pruning. Specific plants at specific times are pruned down to 12”-18” in size. The seasonal cutback promotes rich, healthy new growth, and improve the long-term aesthetics of the landscape, with a more natural flowering cycle throughout the year. This type of pruning is usually performed in the winter and early spring to rejuvenate shrubs and ground covers, and to encourage growth after the dormant period. It can also help manage plants that have outgrown the space, are encroaching over sidewalks, or are obstructing lines of sight.
WHY?
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Promotes healthy plants by eliminating frequent pruning schedules
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Frequently pruned shrubs are in a continuous state of stress, requiring more water to recover
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Plants that are not shear-pruned resist stress better than plants routinely and excessively pruned
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Light and air are unable to penetrate shear-pruned plants, making them woody in the center
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Allows for natural seasonal flowering
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Increases aesthetic value of the landscape
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Allows landscapers to concentrate on other seasonal tasks
Beginning in December, we focus on cutting back the most cold-tolerant plants, like sage, chuparosa, and ornamental grasses.
Moving into January, February and March, you can expect to see cutbacks to varieties of Bougainvillea, Lantana, Yellow Bells, Oleander, Ruellia, and other common shrubs.
Once this selective pruning or cutback is completed, the plants will be left to grow and flower naturally throughout the spring and summer months.
HAND
PRUNING
LandTech is a firm believer in using nature to your advantage. By doing the right thing at the right time of year, we can ensure plants are healthy and vibrant, and you aren’t paying for wasted labor. Once the blooming period is over, the winter months will be spent on the details of your landscape. This means we will be hand pruning or trimming select plants, treating for weeds, blowing and raking.
FROST
DAMAGE
Desert winters can be harsh on trees and shrubs. Frost damage occurs when temperatures fall low enough to freeze the water in help inside the plants. Damaged portions of a plant will appear dry and rust-colored. Pruning of frost-damaged trees and shrubs needs to wait until after the danger of freezing weather has passed. In fact, leaving plant material that has already been damaged by a freeze helps protect against additional damage.
SEASONAL FLOWERS
SUMMER FLOWERS
The color and diversity of summer flowers is a welcome sight during the hot summer months! Look for the rich greenery and small 5-pointed flowers of the Penta, the bold color & fluffy blooms of the Celosia, and Vinca with soft petals in a variety of colors.
WINTER FLOWERS
Our desert winters are filled with color from our seasonal flowers. This time of year you will see Geraniums, Snap Dragons, Pansies, and Petunias.
learn and grow
TREE MANAGEMENT
Ensuring the safety and longevity of your assets.
Trees are valuable assets to every property and should be professionally maintained with a proactive management platform. If not properly cared for, these assets quickly become expensive and hazardous liabilities.
Custom
TRIMMING
SCHEDULE
Skilled tree trimming should be done with a purpose to support natural growth and development. LandTech’s tree programs are based on a professional understanding of the size, shape, and biology of each tree species and how best to combat issues with poor design, hazardous situations, and reasonable maintenance.
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Remove diseased, dead, and damaged branches
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Perform thinning, reduce size, weight, liability
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Improve stability, structure and sustainability
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Aesthetic appeal, ground clearance, visibility
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Sustain natural shape and landscape design
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Allow light to filter through to interior branches
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Avoid breakage/unforeseen emergency corrections
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Competing limbs, crossed or rubbing branches
PALM TREE
TRIM & SKIN
No matter what type of palms you may have, the summer is a great time to trim and skin them. For species such as date palms and other fruit bearing palms, summer months, when they are flowering and fruiting, is when the debris is at its heaviest. Trimming fruit-heavy fronds as well as any dry, dead fronds will eliminate the risk of this debris falling and causing injury or property damage. Removing expired fronds will also reduce the presence of pests such as rodents and scorpions making their homes in the shelter these dead limbs provide. Skinning can help with pest problems as well, in addition to giving your palms a manicured, resort look.
OLIVE
TREE
SPRAYING
Olive trees are a beautiful asset to any landscape. These trees are quite popular in Arizona as they adapt well to our dry climate and soil. However, one drawback to the Olive tree is the olive itself! The olives that are produced will drop to the ground, causing messy debris and staining concrete. In order to minimize the mess, seasonal olive tree spraying is performed every spring. For the most effective treatment, the ideal time to spray is after the tree has flowered, but before it has produced the fruit/olives, usually in March.
learn and grow
CHEMICAL SCIENCE
From the dirt in the ground to the leaves on the trees...
Landscape at the surface is made of simple parts like plants, trees, rock, dirt, water and grass. Complete knowledge of all of theses parts allows us to optimize the health, sustainability and visual potential of any surrounding.
We have mastered and applied scientific practices that ensure a healthy successful landscape.
learn and grow
Construction
Rock refresh/install
Erosion repair
Drainage repair
Grading
Stump grind/removal
Turf conversion
Artificial turf installation
NAOS cleanup
Irrigation renovation
Plant removals
Plant Installation
Storm damage cleanup
Monument upgrades
Natural habitats
Landscaping
for your
future
master
landscape
plan
An MLP (Master Landscape Plan) is a tool we use to gather, monitor, manage all potential landscape projects or goals for the landscape. MLP’s are an overview of every project and helps prioritize them for the future. No goal can be reached without a plan!