If your office plants all die off, that’s a sure sign you need professional maintenance. But is it worth engaging a professional service if your business is doing OK at keeping plants alive? As horticultural experts who have built a business on creating commercial plant designs, we can say that engaging a professional indoor plant maintenance service does more than just ensure your plants are happy.
Here are five reasons why we consistently see clients choose to bring in professionals and what they get out of maintenance beyond great-looking plants.
1. You Want Your Employees Focused on Making Your Business Money
Plant maintenance is a specialist activity. Most employees don’t have the skills or the desire to take care of plants, even if they had the time. And most don’t have the time: they’re busy doing the work you hired them for, selling retail goods, checking in hotel guests, creating a knockout new product, showing clients their dream car, preparing legal agreements, or executing an ambitious campaign.
Unless “take care of plants” was part of a job description, having an employee conduct plant maintenance means a constant focus on plants is added to someone’s already-full plate. And we do mean constant: plants are living and need careful, consistent monitoring and intervention. Yes, even on vacations, holidays, parental leave, sick days and long weekends.
So if you want your employees to focus on what they’re good at, and what keeps business ticking, let the horticultural experts deal with your plants.
2. Your Plants Are Alive, But not Thriving
Sure, your plants are still going. But they’re downtrodden when you come back from vacation. Leaves a little crispy around the edges. Haven’t bloomed since… a few years ago? And yes, that one over there is outgrowing its pot, but nobody’s put potting soil or a new container on the company card yet. So it’ll have to stay like that until someone can figure out what fertilizer mix is.
We see this (and much worse) when we take over plant maintenance for offices and commercial spaces.
Unfortunately, plants that are limping along don’t give a great impression of your space to guests, employees, clients, or your wider community. They send the message that you don’t pay attention to details or care about your working environment. Plus, if you do end up replacing them, you’ve doubled your plant costs overnight.
Leafscape can often protect your investment by bringing your plantscape back to its full potential. We create custom designs for your space and offer plant rental options. Also, under our expert care we have a maintenance guarantee for any plants included in our contracts to be replaced at no-cost when needed.
3. You Want to Foster a Better Sense of Community
Healthy plants are a signal your business sends to your community that says: we’re here, we’re thriving, we’re happy to see you. It makes your space appealing to all those you welcome in. Plants also matter for your employees, who spend a lot of time indoors and could benefit from nature. We can’t tell you how many times we’ve had employees chat with our plant maintenance staff and tell them what a difference greenery has made to their day-to-day sense of wellbeing and connection to their work.
Not only that, but plant maintenance with Leafscape integrates your business into a partner in both Little Rock as well as Northwest Arkansas. We forge many relationships with commercial clients and are friendly faces across the business community.
“It’s not just about watering plants or keeping them alive. It’s about consistency, care, and the relationships built over time. Clients notice when plants are well maintained, and they also notice the dependable presence of the person caring for them.” – Kayla Snipes, Leafscape Team Member
One example of these community ties is one of our large corporate clients. We came in weekly to service their hundreds of plants in workstations and conference rooms. Everyone who had plants on their desk loved them and appreciated us coming in every Tuesday morning to care for their greenery.
We got to know security, staff, and others in and around the building. We built genuine relationships as we serviced their work and, although we are a discreet service, found people were excited to see us coming. The connection and community of this workplace broadened, all because they wanted to keep their plants looking great.
4. You Have Committed to Your Employees’ Wellbeing
If you want your employees to have energy, focus and creativity you can go beyond wellness stipends and meditation apps. Indoor plants have a tangible impact on people’s wellbeing:
- Plants can boost people’s mood and increase confidence
- Plants can improve retention
- Plants can improve job and co-worker satisfaction
Plus, plants add a vibrancy and connection in your office design that can’t be easily replicated, because they’re living things. And yes, your plants being happy and healthy increases these positive effects.
If you want to show a visible commitment to your employee wellbeing, having a maintenance team that makes your plants look incredible is a great way to do it. Maintaining plants professionally sends the same message as replacing an office chair with a broken wheel, adding tasty gluten-free snacks and keeping the windows clean: we care, we want you to be comfortable and we are investing in you to make your time at work better.
5. You Want to Build a Partnership That Can Transform Your Workplace
A good plant maintenance service will be done by a company that has much more capacity than management and helps you thrive beyond watering and pruning.
For us at Leafscape, that means really getting to know you and your business and always being ready when the time comes for a refresh, move or upgrade. Whether that’s adding a seasonal touch to your exterior containers, adding rotating booms to conference rooms, or bringing in poinsettias for the holidays, we can do it.
We’ve seen countless businesses across northwest Arkansas grow, change and evolve in our 45+ years of service. As experts in biophilic design and horticulture, we can help be a partner in your success, working with office managers, small business owners, building owners, office designers and more to improve your commercial space through the power of plants.
If you are looking for plant maintenance services for your business in the Little Rock and Northwest Arkansas regions, contact us today for a free consultation.
