The heavy snowfalls in the Minneapolis and St. Paul metro area pose unique challenges for commercial properties. At Timberland Outdoor Services, Inc., we understand that effective winter care starts long before the first snowflake. It’s built into your initial commercial landscape design, ensuring your property is functional, safe, and easy to maintain year-round. Schedule a free consultation today.
The Business of Winter: Why Proactive Snow Landscaping Saves Money and Headaches
The Business of Winter: Why Proactive Snow Landscaping Saves Money and Headaches
Strategic Planting for Plow Protection
A well-designed planting scheme protects your costly landscape investment from plow damage. We strategically position trees and shrubs away from pavement edges and high-impact areas, providing the necessary clearance for snow removal equipment. This proactive approach ensures your expensive greenery is preserved, lowering your overall commercial landscape maintenance costs and protecting your commercial landscape care investment.
Designated and Safe Snow Storage
Efficient plowing requires a plan for where to put the snow. Our commercial landscape design process includes identifying and designating specific, non-critical areas on your property for snow stacking. These zones are chosen to prevent piles from blocking sightlines, creating dangerous thaw-freeze cycles near entrances, or damaging delicate landscape beds. By planning for relocation, we guarantee faster, safer, and more thorough clearing of your lots and walkways.
Essential Landscape Care Tips for Commercial Snow Management
Viewing snow management as an investment, not just an expense, is key to smart commercial landscape maintenance. Proactive commercial landscape care, like preemptive de-icing and structural pruning in the fall, significantly reduces the risk of expensive emergencies—think frozen pipes, slip-and-fall lawsuits, or major spring repairs due to salt damage. Our commercial landscaping services focus on efficient routing and dedicated planning, which means less idle time for equipment and faster turnaround after a storm, ultimately lowering your operational costs and removing the headache of emergency winter management.
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At Timberland Outdoor Services, we believe in continuity: we design your landscape with Minnesota’s winters in mind, and then we maintain it perfectly all year long. This holistic approach, from commercial landscape design through meticulous commercial landscape maintenance, offers superior efficiency, safety, and value for your Minneapolis/St. Paul business. Schedule a free consultation today.