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Consultation/Planning
 
 

For clients interested in professional installation, we come to your home to offer landscape consultations and planning. Please call to make a consultation and planning appointment with one of our designers.

For on-site visits, our designers will conduct a thorough analysis of your property.  This analysis includes noting, at a minimum, the following:

  • construction concerns/limitations, where applicable
  • existing plantings and their condition
  • sun/shade exposures
  • drainage and grading requirements
  • wind directions and soil conditions  

Picture of landscape with specific drainage & grading requirements.
Landscape with specific drainage and grading requirements

Your designer will ask you very specific questions about how you envision the property, including the types and colours of the plants you know and like, the style of garden you like, sitting areas or construction features you want, areas you'd like to reserve for children or pets, and so on.

Throughout the consultation, your designer will give you ideas and suggestions, pointing out things to consider, as well as offering feedback on your thoughts.

For consultations dealing with a specific garden area, our designers will sketch the proposed landscape and give you a written cost estimate. For projects involving several areas or master plans, our designers will let you know their charge for drawing a "to-scale" blueprint plan with accompanying cost estimate. For clients opting for the blueprint plan, we will waive the consultation/planning fee.

If after consulting with us, you decide you would like to continue, then we take the process to the design phase.

 
   
English Country Gardens, Inc.

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