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THE CREATIVE
PROCESS
    The creative process begins the moment you call the office. As we get to know you and understand your needs, we develop a sense of your personal style and priorities. Then the following process continues.

 
CONSULTATION:     We set an appointment at your convenience for a complimentary initial site visit with one of our landscape designers.

This 1 to 1.5 hour initial consultation is an opportunity for us to get to know each other to make sure we are comfortable doing business together. We show you our portfolio, discuss plant choices and ideas, and share client references. After a look around your property, we have a sense of the scope of the work, your expectations and our challenges. Then we set a fee and a timetable for your landscape design plan.

 
DESIGN PLAN
PROCESS:
    Our services may result in a detailed written description of work, or a hand-rendered “bird’s eye view” of your yard drawn to scale with our planting plan created just for you. For large projects, we provide a Master Design Plan with construction details.

At this point we know your favorite colors, your special keepsakes, what you like to do in your yard, your pet’s special behaviors, your children’s play patterns, and your dreams for the future—and then we go to work. This is when we match the plants to the place to create the setting you want to surround yourself with—perhaps a landscape with everything in its place to assure a sense of control in your world or a more relaxed, diverse garden scheme which invites birds and butterflies to your backdoor to connect you to nature.

During the design process you may be invited to our office to review your plan. We’ll tour you through our demonstration garden and nursery so you can see many of your plant selections first hand.

 
DESIGN APPROVAL:     As part of the design approval meeting, we review your costs for installation of the landscape in a detailed “line-item” estimate. With your acceptance and deposit, we schedule your project.
OUR PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
SERVICES
    Your Landscape Designer will see your project through from start to finish. A Project Manager will be assigned to instruct the Job Foreman. This on-site supervision assures that every nuance of the landscape plan comes to life and the design vision is not lost in translation.

We also coordinate with your choice of irrigation/drainage contractors, fence contractors and others involved in the building process to assure the efficiency of the job and save you money.

 
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