Rainy days...

Thanks to the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida, we've had a rainy week in the Midlands. Our guys have not been able to get in full days but will be making up time over the weekend to keep up with the busy fall. The good news is plants, flowers, and turf love the rain!

Fall Flower Installation

With the changing seasons comes new flowers for the properties we maintain. The fall flower mix is predominately pansies because they survive the (mild) South Carolina winter and provide a nice splash of color during the cooler months. The flowers arrive in large flats on a truck from our supplier. Here is one delivery waiting in our nursery.
After the summer flowers are removed and the soil is prepared for new flowers, our crews carefully position the pansies and accent plants. Here Dusty Miller has been planted and the holes for pansies have been punched.
Once the bed is prepared, the installation goes surprisingly fast.
Installing a large bed requires many hands.
Although the new flowers are smaller than those they are replacing, it won't take long before they're flourishing.

Faces at Heritage

Heritage employs over 50 people. Here's a glimpse at some of the folks that keep the business running as smoothly as it does.

Ian Randolph, our office manager, is originally from Ohio. Ian started with us this spring and has done a fantastic job with responding to customer requests, billing, organizing databases, and various other tasks.
Jamie Martin began with us this August as one of the managers overseeing the mowing and pruning crews. He worked with Heritage last fall to learn the business and then spent the spring in Memphis. Jamie is a cousin of Robert and Ashley's so the family connections continue!

Darrell Adair manages the shop at Heritage. He keeps the mower blades sharpened, backpack blowers tuned up, and fixes about everything else in between. Darryl has been with Heritage for several years.

Alvero Martinez is in charge of irrigation maintenance and repairs.

The little ones are out!

If you see these two cruising around, please let us know. They've been known to hijack the car and do their own property inspections.

Getting started with property inspections

It's one thing to see one or two Heritage trucks at a property in Columbia or Lexington. It's another thing to see them all lined up after a day's work. Here's a shot of the Heritage shop in Gilbert.
Levi is going to be accompanying me on our weekly property inspections. Here he is guzzling some milk after a hard day's work.
Levi and Ashley after work. Ashley's Blackberry buzzes all the time and Levi is learning how to use it quickly.
One of the beautiful flower combinations this spring/summer. Ashley usually designs the beds but his guys took the lead on this one and did a fantastic job!
Always a striking combination...lantana, setcreasea, and petunia.
The wave of red salvia and setcreasea look fantastic here.
After a morning of property inspections, Levi calls quitting time!

Welcome to the Heritage Landscape Services Blog!

We are entering a new phase at Heritage--the world of blogs. I'm going to be the resident blogger (Anna, Ashley's wife). Welcome! To launch our blog, here is a photo of Levi training to do some soil samples. Unfortunately, there's not going to be much dirt in the sample because he keeps eating it!

Last summer we saw some beautiful plants at the Riverbanks Zoo that would look great in a professional or residential landscape. Here are a few:




Also looking back to the summer of 2008--some of the flowers in full bloom.

We look forward to sharing more with you in this format. Stay tuned for regular updates featuring photos of our properties, bits about our families, and other information.