How to Find a Good Landscape Designer/Garden Architect

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  elgrande on 16/02/2021 - 11:35

  +14

  I have included my response below, which I have blurred out for privacy:

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  foxmulder on 16/02/2021 - 11:42

  Pics for your garden?

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  GG57 on 16/02/2021 - 11:48

  What do your neighbours' gardens look like? If you like what you see, ask them how they achieved it.

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  Archi on 16/02/2021 - 11:49

  +2

  3 things to consider.

  function, maintenance and look and feel.

  all 3 are inter-twined. how you weight each of the 3 will effect the other.

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  good grape on 16/02/2021 - 12:08

  Also depends on your budget for plants/fees for the professional, whether you want the contours to be changed/whether it is on a slope (altho it doesn't look like a slope from the blurry aerial), Council approvals if you want trees down

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  jv on 16/02/2021 - 12:18

  +7

  Here is a pic of my house (blurred out for privacy), I have highlighted the area of my back and front yard with red lines.

  Based on the pic you provided, I suggest you go with this design

  You can do it yourself to keep within budget…

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  AndyC1 on 16/02/2021 - 12:18

  +2

  Start by including pics that people can use to help you.

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  87percent on 16/02/2021 - 12:58

  I found my landscaper during lockdown when I went for a walk and they were doing a house in my area.

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  good grape on 16/02/2021 - 13:31

  You can start by googling landscape architect firms in your local area / state, and calling them to ask for a quote. Have photos and your wish list ready, think: low maintence, look pretty, minimal upgrade, total revamp etc. If you have photos of a garden you like, provide it so they can figure out what you want.

  Depending on how complex is your brief (ie how many hours they need to spend), they will give you a quote (fixed or hourly rate)

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    lbsyc on 16/02/2021 - 14:24

    -1

    Thanks for the advice, this is what I am after!

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      GG57 on 16/02/2021 - 14:26

      +1

      You needed someone to tell you to do a Google search?

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        lbsyc on 16/02/2021 - 15:01

        -1

        Don't know why you have to be so snarky about this, I simply want to know how I should approach the pros and what to ask.

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      good grape on 16/02/2021 - 16:11

      Just make sure you know what you want and show them as much pictures as possible.

      A good one will tell you what will and will not work.

      If you don't know what you want, you will end up with a lot of emails back and forth, and high bills.

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  Meho2026 on 17/02/2021 - 05:11

  It’ll cost you 10s of thousands to do that professionally.
  Somewhere you will have a contact, a neighbour, someone’s parent or a colleague who has a green thumb.
  Go find them, go look at their garden and ask them how it’s done.
  People who know this stuff love sharing their knowledge and giving advice.
  Invite them round for a BBQ and ask them what you should do.

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  kator on 17/02/2021 - 15:31

  Landscape architect will cost $$$.

  For garden ideas I just go through the real estate ads and filter them for expensive properties. They are most of the time done by landscapers and used local stuff to create it.

  Also check for recently built very expensive properties in the ads and ask the property agent for the landscaper`s name.