Our talented staff serves Southeastern students, faculty, and visitors by installing campus plantings and maintaining outdoor areas. Our work is highly visible.
Since potential students are decision-making consumers, we consciously recruit students through their first impressions of campus–our outdoor spaces, and we attempt to develop lasting impressions of place as students experience our campus through the seasons.
Our focus is to maintain Southeastern’s campus as a clean and neat, park-like setting while installing and editing landscape elements to achieve responsible low-maintenance solutions and deliberate sustainability.
The Southeastern landscape crew’s responsibilities are integrated to include both installation and maintenance of ornamental plantings throughout the campus.
To create friendly corridors connecting campus locations and enhance the sense of arrival at campus destinations and entrances.
To apply plant knowledge combined with design strategies to select proper plant solutions for each landscape situation.
To adequately prepare soil quality and drainage of planting beds to meet growth requirements of plants selected.
To install plants according to recognized horticultural practices.
To install automated irrigation systems within campus landscapes to sustain existing and new plants, while minimizing initial impact to the root systems of existing trees and shrubs.
To maintain healthy plants by monitoring pest thresholds and responsibly implementing integrated pest control measures.
To strategically supplement soil nutrients for active plant growth.
To maintain weed-free beds through mulching, chemical controls, and pulling weeds by hand.
To re-purpose debris from campus grounds maintenance as useful mulch for landscape beds.
To define and interpret landscape plantings through selective hand-pruning or shearing according to best horticultural practices.