Commercial Landscape Maintenance in Lancaster

Working in Lancaster

Lancaster is high desert, with the most demanding growing conditions of anywhere we serve.

Summer heat is extreme, winter nights freeze hard, humidity is very low, and wind is close to constant. Every one of those constrains what can be grown and how it has to be watered.

Water efficiency matters more here than anywhere, both because demand is high and because evaporation losses in wind and heat are severe. Drip is not an efficiency upgrade here, it is close to a requirement.

What Lancaster commercial property looks like

There is a spread here across retail centres, industrial and aerospace related property, civic and institutional facilities, and business park development.

Industrial property is driven by wind, dust, sight lines, and perimeter management.

Civic and institutional property has larger grounds and documentation requirements, under difficult growing conditions.

Retail property carries conventional standards that are harder to hold here than anywhere else.

What we look for on a Lancaster property

Evaporation and wind loss from spray irrigation, which is the largest single waste on desert property.

Freeze damage in winter, which shapes what can be planted at all.

Dust in drip filtration, which clogs emitters faster than in the basin.

Wind damage to planting that was not selected for it, which is most planting.

The Lancaster year

Spring is brief. Frost risk passes and heat arrives within weeks.

Summer is the hardest season on our routes, and irrigation has no margin.

Winter freezes are hard enough to kill unprotected planting, and they are the constraint that most surprises people used to the basin.