Volume 1V Issue 1
January 2007

What’s INSIDE ?

Should All Acquaintance Be Forgot - Get to Know Pacific Green

Post-Holiday Care for Your Poinsettia

Memo to Clients

Pacific Green Saves $ for Clients!

Should All Acquaintance Be Forgot - Get to Know Pacific Green

A CALL TO ACTION - Ring in the New Year with a resolution to make life, and your job, much easier by choosing the right vendors to call on that will serve you, and your clients best.

Pacific Green Landscape, Inc. will help you bring a smile to your clients by producing visibly great work, because landscape maintenance is our expertise. And, by also streamlining the communication process for our Community Manger clients by staying proactive with calls, e-mails, meetings, website work/bid orders, allows management to keep up to speed on their communities—fast and efficiently!

Expect your vendor to be: highly reliable and accountable, able to provide great work, and always being there to answer a request when duty calls. Be confident that Pacific Green can provide this for you.

If you are looking for a great commercial landscape vendor, look no further than the 24 plus year established landscape maintenance company, Pacific Green Landscape, Inc.

“This Year I vow to stay on top of my work by hiring only qualified and responsible companies that can work with me to achieve my goal.” - A Community Manager Set For Success

PACIFIC GREEN LANDSCAPE, INC.
(800) 439-9962
Should All Acquaintance Be Forgot
If you have not done so already,
Please do give us a try!

What to do with that Poinsettia
To the dumpster or not, this is your question.

It will require patience, but where there’s a will, your own green thumb will have a way.
Great Start to the New Year

POST-HOLIDAY POINSETTIA CARE

That poinsettia plant is just not looking as lush and vibrant as it did a month ago. In fact, it’s shedding leaves and looking a bit tired a wilted. But fret not poinsettia caretaker with ambition, before you give that Christmas plant a toss, read on to see how your own green thumb can provide an enriched and long post-holiday life to that fickle poinsettia.

Regular Maintenance to your plant should include: keeping it away from drafts or high heat areas, fertilizing once per month and watering when the soil is dry. The plant should be exposed to at least five hours of sunlight each day. Depending on the time of year, exposure to sun requirements will vary.

February or March

GIVE IT A TRIM: Cut back the old flowering stems 4-6 inches.

Late Spring/Summer

TRANSPLANT: to a 2-3 inch larger pot, then place in a shaded location for 2 to 3 weeks after re-planting.

TURN: Rotate the plant consistently.

FEED: Poinsettias like to eat, the more they do, the greener they get. To increase growth, fertilize every two weeks with a soluble fertilizer (20-20-20).

Autumn

RELOCATE: If the plant is outside, and the temperature falls below 60 degrees, bring the plant indoors aside a sunny window. Once the plant resides back inside, fertilizer amounts should be reduced.

LIGHT REDUCTION: Flowers will bud between September to early October. To ensure budding, do not subject the plant to any light source at night. Cover with a paper bag or box if necessary. The plant should remain in complete darkness from 5 pm to 8 am, everyday during this time period. Once the plant flowers, which usually takes place about 40 days of treatment, pure darkness is no longer required.

Maintenance does require patience, however, if the determination is there, your poinsettia should be in full bloom in time for the next holiday season.

Good luck in enriching the life of your poinsettia!

Memo to Clients

As of January 1, 2007, California’s minimum wage compensation increased to $7.50 from $6.75 per hour. Following this, in January of 2008, the cost will raise to $8.00 per hour. An increase in compensation was last seen in January, 2002. Additionally, the price for fuel is very volatile and continues to go up, therefore increasing the expense of transportation and machine operation.

The increases are significant and company owners statewide are making adjustments to business plans, budgets and service costs. As a result, don’t be surprised if your vendor’s rates increase now or in the near future.

Pacific Green Landscape, Inc. upholds great standards for our clients, one of which is to provide superb and economical landscape services. As a company that that puts forth immense effort to remain affordable, please understand that ongoing changes may slightly increase pricing in order to compensate for the new requirements.

For over a year, Pacific Green Landscape, Inc. has assisted in saving our HOA clients throughout San Diego County
more than $ 75,000.00 !!!!

How so?

By partnering with the San Diego Water Authority (SDCWA) and taking advantage of the Water Voucher and Grants available, Pacific Green has successfully performed irrigation upgrades, and Smart Clock installations for clients geared to conserve both money and water. And, Pacific Green Landscape handles ALL of the administrative paperwork involved with the grants and vouchers!

To learn more about the program, give us a call, visit: www.pacificgreenlandscape.com, or go directly to the SDCWA website:
www.sdcwa.org

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