Category: Tips for Selecting CT Landscape Professionals
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Saying Goodbye
Yesterday was a melancholy day at Land Designs Unlimited LLC. A client of 5 years is moving and yesterday was my last visit. There’s a chance the new owners will want my services, I hope they do. Unfortunately, experience has taught me it rarely works that way. This landscape is special for a couple of…
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Craftsman Wanted
Our home needs a new roof. Badly. For a couple of years. A month ago my wife, Karyn, started the process of hiring a roofer. Karyn asked me who to call. I mentioned a large roofing company and an acquaintance who started his career in roofing and now works in all aspects of carpentry. Karyn asked…
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Why Should You Hire a Landscape Designer?
What are the benefits of hiring a landscape designer? Why should you hire a landscape designer? There are at least three situations where you should hire a landscape designer: The most obvious reason, you don’t know about garden design. A good landscape designer can help you get the results that best meet your needs. You know about gardening but…
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How I Got My Groove – The Stages of a Landscape Design Career
Unlike now, when I graduated UCONN I didn’t have real-world landscape design experience. I designed landscapes by the book and my designs incorporated the latest cool plants at the nursery. If the book said a plant grows in the shade to 10 feet tall I put it in the shade where it could grow to…
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What’s the Difference Between a Landscape Designer and a Landscaper?
It happened again last week. A client was trying to decide between my company and the company that mows their lawn. The client hired the landscapers because my quote was a little higher. Ugh! This week I drove through the neighborhood and felt disappointment. The gardens had cheap wood mulch and it was not deep enough to suppress weeds. Two great ways to…
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Why I’m Still a Landscaper
Coventry Lane in Trumbull, Connecticut, is where I began my landscaping career after graduating from the University of Connecticut with a degree in Ornamental Horticulture. I eagerly put green fliers with a picturesque tree and my inspired ad copy in mailboxes. Then I anxiously waited for the phone to ring. I was new to the…
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Your Rights When Hiring a Landscape Contractor
The other day, while talking to a prospective client in Newtown, Connecticut, I heard the story of a contractor who had dropped the ball. My prospective client had talked to a carpenter about work in his home and never received an estimate. It had been a week since he left his last message asking the…