Commercial Landscape Maintenance in Whittier

Working in Whittier

Whittier is our home city. Our yard is on Whittier Avenue, which means most Whittier properties are a short drive rather than a routed stop, and an unscheduled visit here is genuinely straightforward in a way it is not forty minutes away.

The city sits against the Puente Hills, and that changes conditions across a fairly short distance. Properties up against the hills run warmer in the afternoon and drain differently from the flat ground toward the Gateway Cities. Slope work, retaining planting, and drainage all come up more often here than they do in the flatlands.

Whittier also has a large stock of older commercial property, including a genuinely historic uptown district. Older buildings usually come with older irrigation, which is the single most common thing we find that nobody knew about.

What Whittier commercial property looks like

What is here ranges across several eras, which matters more for maintenance than it sounds.

Uptown and the older corridors have buildings with narrow frontage strips, mature street trees, and irrigation that predates almost everyone working on it. Those properties need detail work rather than acreage work, and they need somebody who will actually check what the irrigation is doing rather than assume.

The newer commercial development toward the east and along the main corridors is more conventional: parking islands, frontage beds, and turf areas that respond to a normal maintenance programme.

Medical and institutional property is a significant part of the mix, and it brings its own access and noise requirements.

What we look for on a Whittier property

Old irrigation is first. On a property that has not had a full zone by zone run in several years, we usually find broken heads, at least one valve that no longer seats, and a controller running the same schedule it has run since somebody set it.

Mature trees are second. Whittier has a lot of them, and a lot of them are species that were planted decades ago for fast growth and are now lifting pavement or growing into buildings.

On the hillside properties, drainage. Water arriving at the top of a slope from a downspout or a paved area is the cause of most slope problems here, and it is fixable at the source rather than on the slope face.