Services
Plans
Post-Design / Installation Phase
Services
Consultations & Hourly Services
Landscape Architectural Services
How We Help Contractors & Homebuilders
What is Softscape?
What is Hardscape?
PLANS
 Most
of the time landscape design plans are needed. (Please go to our Design
Process page to learn how we proceed when plans are
recommended.)
What is included with a basic set of
landscape design plans?
Site analysis and measuring
Scaled plans (hand-drawn or by CAD):
● Layout Plan (showing hardscape
elements: see sidebar below for what
hardscape is)
● Planting Plan (softscape)
What additional plan services are available?
Help with Homeowners Associations’ requirements
Specialty planting plans (California native plants, hummingbird
and butterfly gardens,
wildlife habitat landscapes)
Lighting
Plans
For Irrigation, Drainage, and Grading plans, please visit
our landscape architect at
www.earthlinedesign.com.
POST-DESIGN / INSTALLATION PHASE
SERVICES
After plans are completed, we are available to help you with
the following:
Referring you to an installer
Finding your plants for you (this ensures best
quality)
Choosing hardscape materials, e.g., flagstone,
concrete colors, pots
Making site visits during installation to ensure the
landscape is being built in line
with our creative vision
Field placement of plants |
CONSULTATIONS & HOURLY SERVICES
 Sometimes
plans aren’t necessary. We can meet on an hourly fee basis and
discuss your landscaping needs. Please call us to find out what
our minimum fee is.
What are some examples of when you might choose to use a
consultation or hourly service?
- To get help on which direction to go with your
landscape.
- To help you buy pots and the plants for them.
- To redesign an existing landscape with new plants.
- To help you solve drainage and irrigation problems.
Yard
makeovers Let us customize new neighborhood
production landscapes, help you figure out old plants to take
out to update your yard, change an old landscape to your style.
Selling your home? We can discuss how to revamp your landscape
to help make it sell.
Having a party? We can dress up your pots and primp/prune your
plants to make your place look good.
Yard primping / pruning We can do light primping of your plants
on an occasional basis.
Pots: Real or Silks We can make up beautiful pots to suit your
style, usually with real plants, but for that hard-to-irrigate
pot, we can make silk arrangements.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES
We
have a state licensed Landscape Architect and former Contractor
as an integral part of our team who assists us in resolving
structural and other challenges that may arise during the design
process. And with years of experience in construction, he is
helpful in developing realistic construction budgets, a critical
step when it comes to the actual installation of your new
landscape. Please go to
www.earthlinedesign.com.
HOW WE HELP CONTRACTORS AND HOME
BUILDERS
We provide all of the above services for contractors and home
builders, but are always on the lookout for good installers.
Give us a call if you would like us to use you for installations
or if you need help with:
Plant buying and layout
Designs
Design input during the installation process (we’re used to
working with the crews)
What is Softscape?
The Plants
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What is Hardscape?
The
structure of the landscape
(everything but the plants)
Overhead Structures, Retaining Walls
Water Features, Lighting, Patios
Decks, Walkways, Seatwalls
Mounds, BBQ Islands, Firepits
Dry Stream Beds, Fireplaces |
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