Starting a landscaping business: design, installation, or maintenance?
Choose between recurring maintenance and project work, plan routes and weather capacity, verify specialty requirements, and price work from actual crew time.
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Choose between recurring maintenance and project work, plan routes and weather capacity, verify specialty requirements, and price work from actual crew time.
Ask whether the request is mowing, cleanup, planting, irrigation, drainage, or a new design. Record property location, approximate affected area, access, and timing.
A photo of a flower bed cannot show the property's microclimate, drainage, buried utilities, or how an irrigation zone performs. Ask what has struggled in previous seasons.
The installed cost of a bed or patio depends on site preparation, access for materials, soil removal, plant sizes, irrigation, edging, and maintenance expectations.
βNew front landscapingβ omits plant species and size, soil amendment, irrigation, mulch, and the homeowner's maintenance obligations.
A property may have children, pets, low branches, power lines, buried utilities, and uneven ground. Collect access notes before sending a crew.
A dead plant may reflect water, soil, light, or seasonal conditions; replacing it with the same species without diagnosis can repeat the problem.
A request for βlow maintenanceβ can mean less mowing, less irrigation, or fewer seasonal tasks. Ask which burden the homeowner wants to reduce.
Spring cleanup, pruning, irrigation startup, and autumn care have different timing by climate and species. Record which services the property actually needs.
A designer's sketch may omit plant substitutions, irrigation zone boundaries, or homeowner-selected materials. Record final selections before the truck is loaded.
A channel producing small spring cleanups is different from one producing long-term maintenance contracts or design-build work. Label these outcomes separately.
A new planting project can look complete while establishment care is only beginning. The homeowner needs watering and maintenance expectations.
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