| Verbal Consults: $100 - This basic service gives you a one hour consultation full of top level professional advice about the possibilities for your landscape. This consult is verbal only, meant to give you a lot of ideas and options for your future landscape. click here for pricing information.
- During a typical hour long consult, we stroll around your landscape, determine your taste, goals and style. We look at the spaces, plants, views and possibilities - then give you alternatives to bring about gardens that fit your lifestyle.
- A consult will not answer a contractor's most frequent questions, such as: "exactly how big is this?" or, "How many square feet of stone?" To answer these questions, you'll need a good set of plans for (next step) that include this information and more.
Sketch Consults: $450 - $1,500 - Fees are based on the size of the area to be developed. The great majority of projects fall into the $450 price range. Click here for more information.
- If you want some visual information, this service might be what you're looking for. These are not to scale, but they do note graphically the ideas discussed. They are meant for future development, and may not work exactly as drawn because of invisible site conditions - but in many cases they can give you a basis for discussion with a contractor about what you want installed. Click here to see some examples. Click here for pricing information.
- During a typical 60-90 minute consult, we stroll around your landscape, determine your taste, goals and style. We look at the spaces, plants, views and possibilities - then give you alternatives to bring about gardens that fit your lifestyle. During this time, we'll be drawing what we're talking about and sketching out alternatives.
- A consult will not answer a contractor's most frequent questions, such as: "exactly how big is this?" or, "How many square feet of stone?" To answer these questions, you'll need a good set of plans for (next step) that include this information and more.
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You can use consults to:
- get new ideas
- find solutions to problems
- get a second opinion
- check your ideas
- compare designers and/or landscape architects
- get a quick conceptual sketch for further development (sketch concepts only)
- After your consultation, we'll send you a free written proposal describing what we'll do and how much our services will cost you.
- We give landscape design consultations over a wide area. We're based in Sacramento, but we regularly travel to El Dorado Hills, Granite Bay, Loomis, Roseville/Rocklin, Napa and Elk Grove. We do consulting in San Francisco,the bay area, and beyond - depending on how interesting the project is.
We request that all decision makers be present at the consult. We reserve the right to cancel a consult if all the decision makers are not present.
* Please note that landscape design consultations are meant to give ideas only. They are not intended to be built from without further development and verification of feasibility from a qualified professional.
** Areas outside of approximately 70 miles from Sacramento may be billed at higher rates (unless we happen to be in your area anyway).







