Signages help provide information in the form of logos/ pictures, words or a combination of all.

People are bombarded with signage -- from traffic signs and billboards to signs identifying businesses, neighborhoods, parks and museums.

Landscape your sign to make it stand out.

Landscaping around a sign is one way to draw attention to the information the sign presents!

SIGNAGES

Native grasses and perennial plants used instead of exotic breeds.

Less water requirement

Choose plants that cannot grow tall enough to eventually block the sign

Establish attractive landscaping around a sign with a tiered effect, using the variation in sizes of plants.

High level- tallest plants Beyond high level-medium sized plants Farthest-smaller border plants

Planting closest to the sign

Variation in Size of Plants to Create a Tiered Effect

The mass of color will draw attention to the area and your sign.

Plants with many different textures or colors is confusing to the eye and will take attention away from your sign.

Plantings can draw the attention of pedestrians and drivers to your sign.

When choosing trees, shrubs or perennial plants to frame the signage and connect it to its location, take into consideration the size the plants will achieve in four or five years.

A small shrub or ornamental grass can quickly grow large enough to obscure a ground-level, or monument, sign. Flanking your sign with large, vertical specimens such as trees will help to draw the attention of drivers.

A tapered or curved bed of plants that leads the eye from a sign to its related building or entrance connects the two and directs people inside the building.

Another method of drawing attention.

Done by planting small blooming trees or shrubs, such as redbud trees, crepe myrtles, or ornamental fruit trees

prune or train them –grow up the side of the signover the top without

interfering with the line of sight

Framing the sign with plants

When someone looks eye naturally drawn toward the middle.

Hence a circle more effective than a square or rectangle arrangement as a focal point is created in the former.

Create a Circle or Oval

Planter Boxunable to build a flower bed because the area is covered with asphalt or cement, build a planting container around the bottom of the sign with stone or wood. Fill the planting container with soil, then add colorful perennials or ornamental grasses that spill over the sides and create an attractive and eye-catching display.

Drip irrigation Use Native or other locally adapted plants

require less supplemental water

can handle local weather better than exotic species

Adding a 3 to 4-inch thick layer of mulch annually to the landscaping bed that frames your sign will reduce the amount of weeds that must be removed by hand labor or use of chemicals

Planting masses of flowering annuals helps draw attention to signage.

These plants will be replaced frequently, they can be planted close together to reduce the space available for weeds.

In addition, changing the color and variety of annuals you plant is a relatively inexpensive way to update the look of your signage and create new interest in your target viewers.

Visibility at night is vital to the success of signage. Coordinate the placement of lights that illuminate a sign's information with the plant material of the landscaping. Either choose plants that will not grow into the light beams or include the cost of periodic pruning in your operating budget

Attractive circular stone sitout in a forest like area

Abstract shaped bench cum container for plants

Seating in a sitout area outside a bungalow

A cozy seating in a lawn area

Cozy sitout in a lawn area