Seasonal color: This additional service is pretty for your customers, pretty for your bottom line

摘要

Any service you can offer that keeps customers happy and gives you reasons to visit the site has to be a pretty good one, right? If that service helps differentiate your business and grow profits, all the better. Maybe it's time to add some seasonal color to your portfolio. "There are many low-maintenance annual varieties on the market that can make things easier for landscape crews," says Barb Terrell, landscape program manager for Ball Horticultural Co. in West Chicago, IL. "The key is putting theright plant in the right place." With seasonal color it's vital to learn which plants thrive best in your climate and in the property micro-climates you serve. Under the wrong conditions, all plants can fail.