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Landscaping | Lessen Use Cases

Lessen offers expert, sustainable landscaping maintenance and seasonal readiness services that enhance commercial property curb appeal, ensure regulatory compliance, and provide scalable, transparent management solutions—demonstrated by a decade-long partnership managing landscaping for over 1,600 nationwide locations with consistent quality and cost control.

Protect and Grow Your Brand Perception

First impressions matter. What your commercial property looks like from the outside may determine whether or not people want to take a step inside. Exterior landscaping plays a critical role in protecting, and even enhancing, your brand reputation.

Experts Who Collaborate With You

Landscaping Maintenance

Our expert landscaping maintenance services ensure your properties reflect a polished, professional appearance year-round, tailored to meet the unique needs of each site.

Seasonal Readiness Services

Prepare your properties for seasonal shifts with our winter and spring readiness services, from spring cleanups to landscape rejuvenation.

Smart Landscaping Solutions

Implement green landscaping practices with solutions designed to conserve resources, enhance biodiversity, remain compliant, and reduce environmental impact across your properties.

Plan for the Future with Strategic Support

Every region and property type presents unique challenges from drought restrictions and water conservation mandates to evolving local codes. Lessen helps you plan the full season in advance, manage vendor performance, and maintain compliance without daily oversight.

What you can expect:

  • One contract, one invoice, one point of accountability
  • Transparent dashboards showing performance and spend
  • Built-in compliance tracking and photo-verified completion
  • Consistent quality and scalability across markets

Choosing the right landscaping partner matters not just in maintaining curb appeal, but in ensuring operational efficiency, cost stability, and portfolio-wide visibility.

A Decade of Growth: Improving Landscaping Performance at Scale

A national facilities operator partnered with Lessen to manage landscaping across 1,600+ locations nationwide, delivering consistent service quality, improved cost predictability, and scalable operations over more than a decade of portfolio growth and leadership changes.

Areas of Expertise

  • Awning cleaning
  • Debris removal
  • Exterior lighting
  • Fertilization service
  • Flower location
  • Graffiti removal
  • Irrigation repair
  • Lawn maintenance
  • Mulch service
  • Parking lot maintenance and repair
  • Shrub trimming
  • Tree, bush, and flower design and installation
  • Tree trimming and removal
  • Weed removal
  • Snow and ice removal

Landscaping at Scale: Bringing More Control to Multi-Site Programs

For multi-site operators, landscaping is one of the most visible and consistent operating expenses across the portfolio. But when it is managed property by property, the friction adds up quickly through budget variance, inconsistent documentation, internal time spent managing exceptions, and repeated resets in strategy.

This guide explores a different model: treating landscaping as a structured program rather than a series of local service visits. Inside, you’ll see how centralized oversight, defined workflows, and stronger vendor governance can improve consistency, simplify administration, and reduce operational noise across the season.

Download The Lessen Guide to Sustainable Landscaping

Transform your commercial properties with sustainable landscaping practices that conserve resources, cut costs, and ensure compliance. This guide, tailored for facility managers of distributed properties, provides actionable insights on navigating local regulations and implementing effective, eco-friendly landscaping strategies.

Learn more about:

  • Why commercial property owners must consider sustainable practices for their exterior services and landscaping.
  • Essential strategies for water conservation, energy savings, and resource management
  • Guidance on integrating high-efficiency equipment and innovative technology
  • Real-world examples of sustainable practices for varied climates

Where Better Begins

The Best People in the Industry

Drive operational efficiency with teams overseeing every step of the maintenance lifecycle so you can work smarter and strategize for the future.

The Best Platform in the Industry

Empower your business with the leading tech platform to manage work orders, streamline your processes, and control your costs in one place.

The Best Process in the Industry

Partner with in-house teams who know your account inside and out. Our dedicated experts ensure personalized attention and tailored solutions.

Let's Work Together!

To take a strategic approach to your service needs.

Contact Lessen to learn more about how we can future-proof the exteriors throughout your portfolio of properties!

Landscaping

Successful programs align budget to scope to create exceptional first impressions.

Landscaping Insights

Landscaping design and maintenance are vital to brand impression. More than 90% of customers say a store’s exterior influences their behavior, and half will avoid a store if the exterior is poorly maintained. We help commercial facilities create and sustain landscaping solutions to attract customers, employees, and tenants.

Make sure your landscaping is meeting the needs of your customers and employees. If you have more than 150 locations, our experts can provide insights into your design and maintenance operations to ensure you receive ROI.

  • Compliance with local regulations and municipalities to eliminate tickets and fines.
  • Consistency in branding and appearance to provide a better customer and employee experience.
  • Budget transparency for greater insights into spend, allowing for better future planning
  • Efficiency through scale and network to provide faster service with better cost controls

With this assessment, you receive:

  • Quality assurance review to make sure scope of work aligns with spend
  • Brand experience evaluation
  • Frequency evaluation based on geography and square feet
  • Cost analysis to remove unnecessary spend such as municipal violations

If you have more than 150 locations, our experts can provide insights into your design and maintenance operations to ensure you receive ROI.

After a comprehensive review, we can provide the right combination of services to help you create exceptional first impressions, elevate brand experiences, and align scope with spend.

Achieve Consistency Through Scale

Access a network of trusted landscaping experts. We source, qualify, manage, and measure a network of service providers to ensure you get consistent quality service. Stay connected—which includes viewing before and after photos—via the One by Lessen™ provider mobile app, so you’ll have full visibility into your portfolio.

Take the Next Step

Simplify your facilities services with Lessen.

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