Design and Installation

The Avant Gardeners specialize in creating landscapes tailored to each client's preferences, ensuring the design meets your specific needs. We collaborate with you, combining your ideas with our expertise to craft the perfect plan.

The process begins with an initial on-site interview where we can meet to discuss your vision for the project. To prepare for this meeting it is helpful if you can think of the following:

Define Your Garden Style: Consider whether you prefer formal or informal, traditional or contemporary and whether you like controlled or wild settings.
Assess Existing Features: Identify elements to keep or remove, including vegetation and landscape features.
List Your Needs: Think about plantings, seating, storage, water features, and privacy. Considertions such as available light, water sources, and current soil coditions should be included in the planning phase.
Choose Materials: Decide on specific plants or general characteristics like shape and color. Using magazine cutouts can help convey your preferences.
Set Your Budget: Determine how much you would like to invest in your project and remember that your project can be done in phases over a few seasons.

Following our meeting, plans using photographs of the proposed areas overlaid with plant suggestions will be prepared. This approach provides the client with a great visual of how the final product will look. It is also a much more economical option for a design which leaves more of your budget available for the project. Once the plan is finalized an estimate for the work will be prepared. Designs start at $150 per view (+ applicable taxes)