• The ABCs of RFPs: what CREs need to know about finding a landscape partner

    February 3, 2023

    If you’re a commercial property or facility professional, RFPs – Request for Proposals – will sooner or later fall within your task bucket. As a procurement tool, RFPs can be ...

  • Landscaping is Changing the Conversation Around Green Real Estate. Top 10 things property people need to know.

    January 20, 2023

    January is Quality of Life month and with sustainability playing an increasingly more important role in how commercial real estate companies invest in green performance, the benefits of landscaping has ...

  • Landscape Staging is an Investment with Multiple Returns. Let’s start with flowers.

    April 5, 2022

    From high school seniors seeking an academic environment that supports campus life to parents looking for proof that their tuition dollars are well spent, nothing says ‘welcome’ and ‘value’ faster ...

  • Nature is Transforming Outdoor Work and Conference Space

    March 25, 2021

    If Covid-19 accelerated an interest in healthier buildings, then landscaping, and its ability to leverage the health benefits of nature, will be front and center in any master plan that ...

  • When There’s No Margin for Error, a Quality Audit Can Be Your Best Return on Investment.

    March 12, 2021

    ELM’s landscape quality audit program is the gold standard in plant performance management. Because you can’t manage what you can’t measure – in business or in landscaping – we believe ...

  • It’s Budgeting Season. Three Landscape Trends Re-shaping CRE Outdoor Space

    October 2, 2020

    In early 2006, if we were to tell you that your lawn would be mowed by a robot, that the cloud was not a delivery system for rain, and that ...