A Guide to Choosing Plants for Your Wooden Planters in Commercial Spaces
A meticulous selection of customizable plants for your roof battens
Plant selection is a crucial step for the success of your wooden planter boxes. A well-thought-out planting plan not only ensures a harmonious aesthetic but also the longevity and vitality of your plants. Since each species has specific needs in terms of light, moisture, and care, careful planning from the start is essential. At TRACER, we understand how important this selection is to meeting the unique requirements of each project, and we support you every step of the way. This careful attention to plant selection and arrangement helps foster a balanced and resilient ecosystem, ensuring healthy and sustainable growth for your wooden planters.
Our Plant Selection Criteria
ADAPTABILITY TO
LOCAL CLIMATE
We select plants that are suited to variations in temperature, light levels, and humidity, as well as the specific exposure of your roof battens, to ensure greater longevity.
, AND DIVERSITY IN BEAUTY
Our plant selections are diverse in terms of textures, colors, and shapes. This visual variety allows us to create attractive and dynamic plant displays that surprise and evolve throughout the year.
, AND RESISTANCE INTERVIEW
Our selections include plant species that require minimal care and are resistant to common diseases, ensuring effective and sustainable management of your wooden planter boxes.
'S INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY
We promote the inclusion of various types of plants to foster local biodiversity, thereby contributing to a more balanced and dynamic ecosystem.
Comprehensive support for your planting plan
We offer a comprehensive and personalized service to help you select plants for your slatted planters. Our project managers, working closely with our maintenance team, carefully oversee every step—from the initial consultation through professional installation and regular follow-up. This involvement in every phase of the plant selection process ensures not only that your wooden planter boxes look their best but also that the plants remain healthy over the long term and blend harmoniously into your outdoor spaces. In this way, we meet your high standards for quality and sustainability.
Our reference file
We work with a database of more than 300 plant species, which allows us to tailor each of our recommendations to the unique characteristics of your project. This extensive database gives us the flexibility to choose the plants best suited to different environments and specific requirements. Here are a few plant varieties we often use in our green infrastructure projects:
Euphorbia chariacas
A bushy, evergreen plant suited to full sun, with green and yellow summer blooms
Carpinus betulus
: A very hardy shrub with a spreading habit, cold-tolerant, suitable for full sun or partial shade, with green spring blooms
Pinus sylvestris '
'—an evergreen conifer with a slender trunk, long-lived, suited to full sun, with purple-yellow spring blooms
Viburnum lantana
: A bushy, very hardy, cold-hardy shrub suited to full sun or partial shade, with creamy white summer blooms
Geranium macrorrhizum '
' An excellent ground cover plant, very hardy and resilient, suitable for full sun, partial shade, or full shade, with mauve spring blooms
Carex pendula
A hardy, evergreen species with a supple growth habit, suitable for full sun or partial shade, with brown summer flowers