Gardens By Design

On-Site Consultation

This involves a visit to your property to offer ideas and suggestions in answer to any of your landscape and garden related questions. Topics can range from how to enhance or develop an area of your site to how to improve your soil. We can suggest plants that should do well at your location, coach you on reworking an existing garden and give you tips on how to reduce maintenance time. This initial consultation can also serve as the first step in the design process.

Overall Site Plan

After a site-visit and extensive discussion about what you envision for your property we can develop an overall site plan. The plan will take into account the activities and needs of family members, views you wish to enhance or obscure as well as your goals and budget. Hardscape elements can be planned and defined and garden beds can be designated and designed. An overall site plan or master plan is a useful tool for implementing a phased project.

Garden Design

Gardens By Design will develop a unique design for your garden areas. This custom plan will be based on a discussion with you about your image of a beautiful garden including garden style, color palette, plant types, maintenance requirements, and other elements. We are known for our creative plant combinations, using foliage to increase the impact of our gardens and designing gardens that bloom throughout the season. You will receive scale drawings of all gardens designed for you with plant selections designated on the drawings. We also provide a plant list with detailed descriptions of the plants.

Installation Services

Gardens By Design will handle your garden installation for you from planning through completion. We have a well-trained, experienced team that does garden bed preparation, planting, paths, patios and rock work. We also co-ordinate with other specialty contractors for certain elements, in particular those that might require heavy machinery or the building trades. Alternatively, we can coach and guide you if you prefer to do all or part of the installation yourself. Both options are available for projects that will be completed in one day, one season or those that will be created over several years.

Maintenance Services

For our design clients, Gardens By Design offers garden maintenance on an hourly basis. Some of our clients opt for regularly scheduled maintenance while others call us on an as needed basis. Our goal is to meet your needs. We strive to be very flexible for you. We also provide special Spring Maintenance services at the inception of the growing season and Winter Preparation at the conclusion of the season. Spring Maintenance includes removal of spent foliage, fertilizing all plants, pruning and weeding as necessary and refreshment of mulch. Winter Preparation entails caging trees, wrapping shrubs, cutting back the plants that require it and planting spring flowering bulbs.