Wilhelm Brothers Landscape Management

08/03/2020

The Bay Sarasota – A Bold New Vision For Downtown Sarasota’s Waterfront!

Wilhelm Brothers Landscape Management had the honor to be a part of this amazing project. Wilhelm’s contribution was to install landscaping for the The Fountain Garden as part of Phase I of the Bay Sarasota, as well as advise the design team on horticulture issues as the plants were selected. Below are full details of the Bay Sarasota and our involvement in Phase I.

About The Project: The Bay Sarasota will foster lasting cultural, environmental and economic opportunity for the city while ensuring public access to the waterfront for future generations. Designed by a world-class landscape design team including architect Gina Ford of Agency LP, and Bill Waddill certified planner and landscape architect with over 32 years of experience managing the design, public engagement, and implementation process for both public and private projects. This massive 53-acre project will revitalize and transform the entire area, featuring a new expansive and modern performing arts center and municipal auditorium.

To preserve and protect greenspace along the water, there will be an enhanced mangrove bayou with a kayak launch, observation overlook, and a massive sunset boardwalk. A network of paths will navigate the multi-acre site and include a new pier and over-water boardwalk that culminates at a renovated quay just south of the 10th street boat launch.

The Bay Sarasota is a large collaborative project involving many stakeholders and local business leaders and area contractors and is supported in part by community contributions.

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06/30/2020

Learn About Palm Tree & Shade Tree Care From A Certified Arborist

Achieve The Look You Want

Our team of certified arborists can help you design and install trees that will add beauty and life to your spaces. With their expansive knowledge they can help you choose the right trees for your space. They’ll also put together a comprehensive design that can achieve a variety of goals from shading your buildings to reduce utility costs to creating a lush, tropical communal space for your guests and residents to enjoy. We have a broad network of nurseries so we can get you exactly the trees that you want, as well as layout a comprehensive maintenance plan to keep them healthy and strong for years to come.

Don’t Let Unhealthy Trees Ruin The Look Of Your Property

Our certified arborists are more than just landscape designers, they know about all of the issues that can impact Florida trees. They can diagnosis any problem harming your trees including:

● Pests that attack trees and spread plant diseases
● Mold and other damaging fungus
● Tree diseases
● Root system issues like lack of space to grow
● Overwatering and underwatering
● Poor soil conditions and lack of proper nutrients
● Exposed roots from erosion

Tree & Palm Care Trees add beauty to your landscape and function to provide shade for you, your guests, and your vegetation from the hot Florida sun. Caring for trees is difficult because they require specialized skills and tools. Luckily the experts at Wilhelm Brothers are here to help. Our certifi...

05/11/2020

Why You Need A Landscape Designer To Create Beautiful Outdoor Spaces In Sarasota

Many homeowners in Sarasota spend a lot of time outdoors in the beautiful Florida weather, so it’s no surprise that most houses in the area boast beautiful landscapes. Creating an outdoor space can be tricky, especially if you don’t know where to start. Fortunately, you don’t have to worry about it too much because there are many professional landscape designers around who can help you have the outdoor space of your dreams.

Here are some of the reasons you should consider hiring a landscape designer for your property.
Reduce Utility Costs

A seasoned landscape designer will help not only create a beautiful outdoor space for your home but also reduce your utility costs. They can place trees, shrubs, and other elements in strategic locations to ensure that they will add more value to your home. For example, a tree growing in the right area can provide shade for your home so there’s no need to turn on the air conditioning that often.
Ensure Privacy

Not all homeowners are keen on the idea of having their property completely visible for everyone to see. Instead of fences, you can get the amount of privacy you want with a good landscape design. At the same time, you can have an outdoor area where you can lounge around anytime you want.

Use Native Plants

Some of the popular native plants in Florida are muhly grass, coontie, and beautyberry. With the help of a professional landscape designer, these native plants can be properly incorporated into your landscape. They have adapted to the local environmental conditions, which means they require less maintenance.

Create Functional Areas

To the untrained eye, it’s easy to overlook opportunities for suitable outdoor spaces. A landscape designer is skilled in spotting areas in your yard that can be turned into functional spaces. This is especially important if you have limited space. Have a designer take a look at your yard and listen to their ideas—you might just be impressed with what you hear.

Boost The Value Of Your Property

Even though you have no plans of selling your property, a good outdoor space created with the help of a professional landscape designer can increase the value of your home. In fact, a lot of homeowners in Sarasota hire a landscape designer when they decide to put their property on the market. In turn, they get to raise their asking price and get more for their property.

There is no shortage of landscape designers in Florida. What you need to do is to find the right one who will address all of your unique needs. Working with a top-notch landscape company can help you create the outdoor space you’ve always wanted. Choose a company with years of experience and has a reputation in the area for doing excellent work.

Aside from searching for a landscape designer on the internet, you can ask for referrals from your neighbors and friends. What are you waiting for? It’s time to turn the outdoor space you’ve always wanted into reality—you deserve it!

Many homeowners in Sarasota spend a lot of time outdoors in the beautiful…

05/06/2020

Wilhelm Brothers Is Proud To Be Part Of The Sarasota Bay Project Team. Thank you to the Sarasota Garden Club and everyone involved in revitalizing the 10th Street Bayfront.

05/06/2020

Reduce Noise From Lawn Maintenance Using Electric Landscape Equipment

Good For The Eyes, Bad For The Ears

As pleasing as a well-manicured lawn is to the eye, the process of maintaining it can take a toll on the ears. While the noise due to lawn maintenance activities is often only a source of mild disturbance for the neighborhood, it can prove harmful for the landscaper. In maintaining our lawns, we are responsible for not only doing it in an environmentally friendly way but also keeping the neighborhood free of noise pollution.

Public Disturbance

It takes considerable effort to sustain the beauty of your yard, lawn, or garden, and the constant mowing and blowing may lead to complaints from your neighbors. As a courtesy, some of the ways you can deal with it are by managing your plants (for example, plant tall, thick trees that may block noise) or modifying your outdoor spaces (put up a fence or install water features). However, even if the noise is reduced because of these measures, the workers themselves will still be subjected to and affected by it. The best thing to do then is to use alternative equipment that doesn’t generate a lot of noise.

Occupational Hazards

In a report cited by the Center for Disease and Control (CDC), there are 912,360 landscapers or groundkeepers in the country, in addition to the 100,320 first line workers in landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping companies. All of them are identified to be among the 22 million workers in the US who are at high risk of hearing loss. Noise from equipment or machinery is an occupational hazard, and it’s something we must take the necessary steps to prevent. There are already several states imposing bans on extremely noisy leaf blowers, and the rest of us should turn to innovations designed to lessen noise and noise-related injuries alike.

New Quiet Electric Landscape Equipment

A recent trend in this respect is that more and more companies are moving toward electric equipment whenever possible. This includes automated lawnmowers and other battery-operated devices. By hiring companies that resort to quieter landscaping methods, you are making the process more bearable for those who live nearby and for those who are working on your lawn. Electric landscape equipment is not just better for the ears but also better for the air—it is proven to aid in reducing pollution and emissions compared to traditional gas-powered mowers and blowers. Automated lawnmowers, on the other hand, allow landscaping or groundskeeping personnel to focus on the other aspects of your landscape that need tending to.

Wilhelm Brothers Strives to provide the best possible service, and we have moved to help reduce the noise from our landscape maintenance teams, in part by using electric landscape maintenance equipment where practical. Contact Wilhelm Brothers today to learn how our landscape maintenance services have reduced noise.

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05/06/2020

Water is essential in sustaining plants in habitats where they naturally grow or spaces where they are artificially maintained. But if it is excessive or lacking, it can be detrimental. Landscape enthusiasts in Sarasota may be familiar with this situation: hot or dry Southwest Florida weather is not unusual for most of the year; but during the summer, the area deals with heavy afternoon rains almost daily. The latter condition leads to stormwater runoff, and managing it is a major factor in ensuring the health of your residential or commercial landscape.


Stormwater Runoff And Stormwater Effects

Runoff is part of the natural water cycle. Also known as surface runoff, it is water that flows over the land surface. It may come from snow or other sources, but it is called stormwater (or precipitation runoff) when it comes from rain. When water hits the ground and drains away, it tends to carry substances that may affect plants in your landscape.

Depending on the volume of water hitting the ground and the intensity of the rain, stormwater may carry with it salt, animal waste, fluids, sediments, and a host of other materials from various origins. It may even have excess chemicals from your plants and soil. As you can imagine, the process causes unintended consequences for the environment. For these reasons and more, stormwater management is an essential requirement in keeping landscapes healthy.

Stormwater Management

Whereas landscaping is an art, stormwater management is a science that may be utilized to deal with the effects of stormwater runoff. On a grander scale, stormwater management is necessary for the state of Florida, particularly to prevent agricultural erosion in rural areas and control flooding in urban areas. The potential damage brought about by stormwater runoff includes the contamination of plants in residential communities. It is then imperative to improve how landscapers deal with stormwater so people can benefit from it and its negative impacts can be minimized at the same time.
What To Know About Dealing with Stormwater

When it comes to stormwater runoff management—and landscaping in general—there are three fundamental things to know: the climate, your soil, and your plants.

Knowing the climate – As mentioned earlier, Southwest Florida climate tends to be too hot or too rainy depending on the time of year. Wherever your location is, this knowledge should help you set your expectations when it comes to landscaping and the type of stormwater management you should be conducting.

Knowing your soil – Soil knowledge is both a matter of familiarizing yourself with the type of soil common in your location and determining the nutrient needs of the soil on your property. Soil is a natural filter, and infiltration is another important element in landscaping and water management. Keep in mind that the capacity of your soil to absorb and cleanse stormwater must be maximized.

Knowing your plants – “The right tree in the right place” is a credo that landscapers should abide by. There are plants that only thrive in specific environments. Before you grow anything in your garden, yard, or lawn, find out if the plants you want are suitable for it.

To tie these three elements together and circle back to stormwater management, saltwater intrusion must be mentioned. Being that Sarasota, along with other locations in and around Southwest Florida, is near the bay, rains often transport salt to the area. This happens because stormwater runoffs bring with it saltwater, which may harm plants that are not salt-tolerant. Such an unpleasant situation can be avoided if you know enough about the climate and the features of your landscape.
Stormwater Management In Landscaping

It’s good to know as much as you can about your climate, soil, and plants when dealing with stormwater runoff; however, that is only a surface-level requirement. Stormwater management is a technical endeavor, and further research is necessary to make it successful.

Water is essential in sustaining plants in habitats where they naturally grow or…