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There will come a time in your landscaping needs that you feel as if you should hire a professional landscaper. If this is the case, you are going to want to make sure that you are spending your money wisely, and that you aren’t hiring a landscaper if you don’t need one.

First of all, you should assess your landscaping needs. If you have a small yard with only a few flowerbeds, you probably do not need a landscaper. Even if you don’t have a lot of time to work in your yard, a small yard can easily be landscaped and left alone. If you don’t have time to work in your small yard, you can use bricks and stones or wood chips along the sides of your house instead of flowerbeds. You can put either plants that don’t require much work, or statues or other decorative things in these stone beds. If you use only statues or self-growing plants that will come back each year, once your yard has been landscaped you don’t need to worry about it.

However, if you are looking for something a little more complicated than flower or stone beds and bricks, you might want to turn to a professional landscaper. If you have lots of ideas for your large yard, or you want some professional help, you should hire someone. Some of the things that you might want the help of a professional landscaper for include installation of large ponds or fountains. These are things that might need to be installed professionally. Also, if you have a large yard and you want to have a landscaping scheme that requires many different things, a professional landscaper will be able to install and create moods and motifs all around your yard that match and look good together.  Read more...

If you like being outdoors, working in the earth, designing gardens and landscapes, you should consider going to school to become a professional landscaper. Over 26% of landscapers are self-employed, so its a great career.

If you own your own house, you want your home to be like a jewel in a beautiful setting – that beautiful setting being your front and back lawns. The front lawn will be visible by everyone driving past and you’ll want it to look nice for the casual viewer as well as for yourself, whereas your back yard is yours and yours alone and you can do anything with it.

Many people enjoy puttering in their gardens, and they know the names of all the plants and flowers, not to mention the birds and the bees, that they may encounter. Others don’t care that much about their gardens – they just want what looks nice. It is for these people that professional landscapers and lawn care businesses exist.

There’s nothing to be ashamed of if you can’t tell a robin from a sparrow, a forsythia from a chrysanthemum, a poplar from a beech tree. But when it comes to maintaining a healthy lawn, let alone a pretty one, these are things that whoever works on your lawn has to know about.

The professional landscaper. Exactly how does one become a professional landscaper?

Your local botanical garden will offer courses in landscaping, but these are just designed for the average homeowner.

You can take classes on landscaping online. PennFoster is one of the largest online schools…PCDI is another such school.

PennFoster
”Penn Foster offers classes in plant health, soil, and fertilizers. They give instruction on servicing garden tractors and other tools used in landscaping. They teach you how to create landscaping designs using shrubs and ground covers. They also cover specialty landscaping, and starting and operating your own landscaping business.”  Read more...

One of the main reasons people should go with a professional landscaping company is the scope of service that an established and reputable firm is able to provide. People do not always realize in advance just how many details will be needed to fulfill their expectations. A truly professional landscaping project will involve design, architectural, and plant material elements. Structures that are created as part of the landscape design will have to be constructed either directly by the professional landscaper or by subcontracted specialists who are held accountable to a landscaping plan. Plants that can grow hardily in Houston will have to be chosen and planted in aesthetically pleasing ways that compliment the home and yard decorum.

Many yard service companies are now moving into Houston from other areas of the country seeking work in a stable economy. Many of these companies have little knowledge of Houston climate, indigenous plant life, or service professionals who could provide key elements of landscaping design on a subcontract bases. Inevitably these businesses offer their services at a lower price point than professional landscape companies, and many homeowners feel reassured that the cost savings is sufficient to justify a few compromises in design. However, lasting results are hard to achieve without a sound working knowledge of soil, climate, and plant material.

Anyone interested in building entertainment space into their backyard should rely only on a professional landscaping company to create this. There are many forms of outdoor entertainment, and the structures built to support them are determined by the nature of the entertainment itself and the size of the gathering. Matching exterior architecture to an event itself requires an understanding of architecture as well as landscaping. Things such as outdoor rooms for movies, sitting by a fireplace, toasting marshmallows, or hosting a formal function all consist to one degree or the other of extending living space into outdoor space. Yard companies do not understand the nuances of entertainment, nor do they have the construction skills necessary to match architecture to event, form to function. Attempting to save money by hiring a yard service to build outdoor entertainment areas is akin to having a painter build a house.  Read more...

You are more likely to achieve your landscaping goals by hiring a professional landscaper-no matter if your project is a themed garden, like an English garden design or a Mediterranean landscape design, a small garden design that only encompasses landscape planting or a complex construction project. A well-versed Houston professional landscaper will take into account not only your desires, but the specific challenges of this region: dense soil, weather conditions of the Gulf coast, drainage issues, and likely insect infestations and plant diseases.

Choosing a Professional Landscaper

Begin the process by distinguishing between off-the-shelf landscaping design services and a professional designer who can capture your vision for your landscape. During the preliminaries, visit the company website and ask to see a portfolio to determine if the design firm under consideration has a sense of style that complements your own. Ultimately, you want a professional who can design a landscape that reflects your home’s architecture and your lifestyle.

As you begin the early discussions, be as specific as possible about what you want the end design to look like. Perhaps you would enjoy hardscapes, like a well-thought-out patio design or pool design, eye-catching gates or interesting pathways. Maybe you like to entertain, something that calls for an outdoor kitchen. Understanding these landscape elements, their relationships to each other and the open space, and interpreting them well distinguishes a Houston professional landscaper working in the top echelon.

The Process

After selecting a landscape professional and the subsequent exploratory discussions, the next steps involve meetings, site analysis, program of uses, and use of the design professional’s expertise. During the conceptual phase, the landscape professional develops the overall design and puts it onto paper. The resulting documents will show such specifics as lawn areas, plantings, areas of general use and their sizes, irrigation systems and drainage systems, landscape lighting, and the projected overall cost.  Read more...

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