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RESTORATION & MAINTENANCE SERVICES
OVERVIEW
Southern Blossoms offers comprehensive landscape restoration and maintenance services that are designed to maintain beauty and maximize the horticultural value of the property – whether it is your home or a downtown office tower. Keeping in accordance with sustainable practices, Southern Blossoms is proud to perform all maintenance services with minimal use of fossil fuel. This hands-on approach ensures attention to detail and greater plant health.
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ARBORICULTURE & CARE
The science of arboriculture studies how trees grow and respond to cultural practices and to their environment. The practice of arboriculture includes cultural techniques such as selection, planting, training, fertilization, pest and pathogen control, pruning and mitigation/removal. Risk management, long term care and aesthetic considerations also play prominent roles in the practice of arboriculture. Southern Blossoms utilizes arboriculture methods on all of its projects to create, maintain and prolong urban forests.
In every possible instance, Southern Blossoms follows the standards set forth by the International Society of Arborists.
Palm canopy care is provided as needed leaving as many fronds as possible to ensure the health of all palms.
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GROUNDS MAINTENANCE
Southern Blossoms performs overall grounds maintenance based on the needs of specific plant species, particularly hedges, shrubs and small trees. Each member of our maintenance staff is trained in the proper use and care of tools, pest control, overall plant health and recycling. We are committed to a minimal use of fossil fuel-powered equipment.
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IPM (Integrated Pest Management)
Southern Blossoms’ IPM (Integrated Pest Management) program begins with a visual inspection of plants, followed by spot treatments applied directly to plants rather than in broad treatment. In our experience, we have identified the misuse of horticultural maintenance practices (including the overuse of fossil fuel-operated hedgers and trimmers) as the leading cause of disease and die-back and ultimate plant failure. Proper horticultural pruning practices mitigate this threat.
Our fertilization program uses a slow release nitrogen-based fertilizer that is applied 2-3 times a year, avoiding fertilization in the primary summer months to minimize nitrogen leaching. Southern Blossoms typically fertilizes in the spring and very end of the summer.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an effective and environmentally sensitive approach to pest management that relies on common sense practices. IPM programs use current, comprehensive information on the life cycles of pests and their interaction with the environment. This information, in combination with available pest control methods, is used to manage pest damage by the most economical means, and with the least possible hazard to humans, property, and the environment.
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IRRIGATION SYSTEMS & WATER MANAGEMENT
Part of Southern Blossoms dedication to sustainable practices includes attention to irrigation systems, new or existing. Attention to existing systems can reveal water loss issues like run-off, malfunctioning heads, etc. Resolving these issues can not only save on water costs for the property, but are the best tools in sustainable practices and the better management of our water resources. Future forward maintenance practices include drip irrigation systems, planning ahead for storm water runoff management and water reuse.
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STORM DAMAGE RESTORATION
As a community, our experiences with severe storms have been and continue to be challenging. Southern Blossoms is dedicated to the natural restoration of environments that have been severely damaged by storms. Having persevered through storms including Andrew, Katrina and Wilma, we have provided services that range from massive tree resetting and restoration of trees throughout our commercial and residential portfolio. Our primary objective in these situations is safety and the preservation of urban canopies.
Our work always takes into consideration the impact of storms. We understand that tropical wind patterns have less of an effect on native Florida-friendly mixed-tree communities than on other species that are vulnerable to wind damage for a longer time.
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