Landscape Design Process
How to proceed with a Landscape Design
Landscape construction projects are most successfully achieved with the help of a professional landscape designer or landscape architect. With our years of training, experience and knowledge we can contribute insight and wisdom to the landscape design process from the very beginning through the final construction. Start your landscape project with a professional who can share his success with a Photo Gallery and Testimonials from past clients.
Design Process
Whether with a full-site landscape master plan or a small garden design that incorporates a phased installation, Garden Design Inc. can develop a project proposal that matches your wants, your needs and your budget. The first step is to meet with a landscape design professional and review the project priorities, landscape opportunities, constraints and budgets. Next a base landscape plan of the project area is generated and landscape designs are developed. Finally, budgets and contracts are presented and a design revision process leads the landscape design and budgeting to a landscape project the client is ready to build.
Maintenance Practices
Our staff of garden designers will work to do their part to save the planet on which we live. We design sustainable landscapes using organic practices that will contribute to the future of our environment and all of our continuing healthy, GREEN living. We will develop landscape designs that fit your preferences for maintenance, whether that be the lowest possible maintenance or a more intensive landscape design.
Consultation Costs
If you are in our neighborhood, the initial landscape consultation is no cost. If we need to travel, we charge to cover our time and travel costs. Please call to determine the cost and discuss your landscape projects. Small, local design projects typically don't involve a landscape design services fee. We do charge for our professional landscape architecture services on larger or more complicated projects. Estimates for garden maintenance and horticultural services are no cost and can be obtained by calling the office number: 610-530-8752
Articles that Solve Garden Design Problems
The following articles respond to many questions received by Garden Design over the years. They amount to a total education in the art of landscape design as practiced by Garden Design's staff of trained professionals.
- Everything you wanted to know about mulch but were afraid to ask...
- Cutting your winter losses...
- Weeding and Feeding...
- Another view on the deer population...
- A Dry Stream Bed Solves a Swale Problem
- Elements of Design in a Good Planting Plan
- On the Value of a Landscape Home Improvement
- Sustainability: A New Green
- A Landscape Solution to an Engineering Problem
Garden Design Lectures
Landscape and Garden Design Lecture Programs
Although based in the Allentown, PA, the company and its dedicated professional landscape executives are committed to providing the finest in horticultural, design, and educational programs for horticultural seminars, nursery conferences, Garden Club programs and landscape industry inspirational messages to national audiences. Call, write or E-mail us at any of the addresses given and let us know your dates and expectations. Fees are negotiable and related to the length of the program and the distance from Allentown.
Small Landscaping Smarts
Designing gardens and landscaping, whether in a courtyard or a 40 acre estate can maximize the impact while minimizing the budget. With the perfect combination of plants, hardscape elements, landscaping and outdoor lighting for the client's after-hours enjoyment, small gardens can deliver the ultimate in personal lifestyle satisfaction.
Landscape Design Resources
The landscape design professional has an arsenal of tools with which to work. From professional credentials and industry recognition to knowing what to buy from whom, this talk delivers names and addresses of a vast array of support organizations and trade providers for the dedicated landscape design professional or the passionate amateur.
Cornerstones of Landscape Design
Everything you need to know about landscape design with the right plants in the right places for the right reasons. This is a back-to-basics, no-nonsense approach to the elements and principles of design. The talk is illustrated with photos of installed gardens from one of the country’s most award-winning landscape design/build companies. This hour lecture can be expanded into a half or full day concentration in how to get the details right in landscaping design
Continuous Bloom in Your Garden Design
Frederick Learey will use his knowledge of the vast array of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, herbaceous perennials and ornamental grasses, spring flowering bulbs and unique ground covers to emphasize continuous bloom in designing outdoor garden spaces. His presentation is not just about plant knowledge in selecting for continuous bloom, but about the combination of creating spaces that have continuous bloom as part of their beauty and interest. He will be showing examples of various gardens that illustrate the principles and elements of design. You will be challenged to paint color pictures with the plant palette that you choose.
Refine Your Garden Design
Are your landscaping and garden design tools up to the trade? Hone your designing vocabulary and update the portfolio with a our photo gallery collection of images, ideas and aesthetics. A broad range of subjects presents the design dimension of outdoor spaces for landscaping professionals and amateurs alike.
Sustainability-Landscape Work You Can Live By
This session brings the big picture down to business basics. What trends on the international level will translate to dollars on your monthly income statement? Sustainability can work for you! (This topic can be a continuation of "Sustainability is Green" or a stand-alone break-out session.)
Putting Landscape Design Together
The Outdoor Room: Landscaping for Lifestyle
The art and practice of landscape design as presented by one of the garden designing world's leading designers. This lecture connects the elements of landscaping design with the outdoor lifestyles of clients. The growing trend toward outdoor living rooms will be illustrated with photographs of the company's work.
Landscape Design Primer
Through the use of actual transformations, landscape designs will be examined for the value they can add to a property-both financial and aesthetic. Before and after pictures will illustrate exactly how a property can be improved through the elements and principles of landscaping and garden design. Learn how to define a property's hidden assets through creative landscape approaches.
Hot Pots!
Small lots, large decks, inside gardening, and annuals, annuals, annuals! How easy it is to garden in small spaces with a wealth of new plant material and architectural details. Container gardening is the latest frontier for the avid plant collector! More plants per square inch and more color per month in a seasonal retrospective of best and the brightest!
Once You've Designed the Landscape, Can You Sell It?
Once You've Sold the Landscape, Can You Make Money?
This back-to-back session deals with the management issues and business systems to grow a landscape design/build company. Successful landscape contracting depends on Customer satisfaction, Employee empowerment and Business appreciation. Connect the circle of successful traits and keep the landscaping and garden designing business cycle moving forward and upward.
Landscape Design and Installation 101
This session attempts to help you to know if you are on the cutting edge or over-the-edge of landscape design/build business basics. See how your business stacks up against the standards set by some of the best companies in the industry! Discover the innovations, view the construction sites, and learn the inside secrets of outstanding green-industry companies and some of the greatest public gardens in the United States. Session info bytes will include: How to beat the drought! What piece of equipment is the best? Inventory control-what's that? Employee motivation and retention! Niche marketing and customer service tricks-of-the trade. Digital images capture the break-neck pace of breaking news in the world of horticultural excellence. This program is designed for a mixed group of landscape contractors, garden centers, nurseries/growers, and country extension agents. It is purposefully broad-of-scope to act a springboard for a session of questions/answers and systems sharing.
More Topics for Presentation
Other hour-long topics have been officially recognized by the National Federated Garden Clubs in their accredited Design Course:
- Development of Landscape Design in Early America
- Development of Landscape Design in America: 1840 to 1940
- Design on the Land; Regional Expression
- Landscape Design Resources
- Landscape Design Elements and Principles
- Preservation of Historic Sites and Structures
