FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Gardening, Landscape Design & Ecological Care
Getting Started
What types of gardening and landscape services do you offer?
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Can you help create a native plant garden?
Can you help with plant selection?
How is ecological garden care different from traditional landscape maintenance?
Can you help troubleshoot an existing native garden?
Services focus on ecological and sustainable gardening, including native garden design, pollinator habitat creation, ecological landscape planning, garden rehabilitation, plant selection, garden installation, and ongoing garden care.
Do you offer consultations?
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Yes. Consultations and site visits can be used for garden coaching, planning guidance, design recommendations, plant selection, troubleshooting, property assessment, or determining next steps before moving forward with a larger project.
What happens during a consultation?
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What is your consultation fee?
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Consultation fees typically begin at $125 per hour, though pricing may vary depending on travel and project location. If it becomes clear that the project is not a good fit, there is no obligation to move forward.
Consultations can be scheduled through the online calendar or by contacting us with a few dates and times that work for you.
A consultation includes reviewing the property, discussing goals and challenges, evaluating site conditions, troubleshooting concerns, and developing recommendations, referrals and next steps.
How do I schedule a consultation?
Service Area & Travel
Do you work in my town?
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How far do you travel for consultations and projects?
Can you redesign an existing garden?
Do you provide ongoing garden maintenance?
Can you help rehabilitate an established garden that has become overwhelming?
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Travel outside the core North Shore service area may incur additional consultation fees and scheduling limitations.
Travel availability depends on project location and may affect consultation pricing. Please reach out to review and discuss.
Yes. Long-term landscape planning can include orchards, meadows, woodland paths, habitat restoration, and future development phases, including after-care recommendations.
Ecological garden care focuses on long-term ecosystem health, resilience, habitat value, and sustainable planting practices.
What size projects do you take on?
Projects of many sizes are considered, provided they align with ecological landscape design, native planting, and habitat-focused services.
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Yes. Native garden services can include plant recommendations, habitat creation, and pollinator-friendly landscape planning, installation and after-care.
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Design & Installation
Can you create a landscape master plan?
Ongoing Garden Care
Can you work within a specific budget?
Specialized Services
Yes. Larger projects can be planned and completed in phases.
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What happens if you are fully booked?
Budget & Project Planning
Can projects be completed in stages?
Do you provide pollinator habitat design?
Do you offer educational gardening coaching?
Yes. Existing gardens can be evaluated and reworked using a more sustainable and manageable approach.
Yes. Guidance is available for selecting plants, shrubs, trees, and native species suited to site conditions.
Ongoing support focuses on ecological garden after-care, coaching, seasonal stewardship, and habitat management rather than traditional landscaping maintenance.
Yes. Gardens can be restored through a phased, practical approach focused on sustainability and long-term success.
A waitlist or referral to a trusted colleague may be offered when scheduling capacity is limited.
Yes. Projects can often be adjusted, scaled, or phased to align with budget considerations.
Yes. Pollinator habitat projects may include native planting plans, meadow development, habitat restoration, and ecological enhancements.
Yes. Educational programs, guided walks, presentations, and gardening workshops may be available for libraries, schools, nonprofits, and community organizations.
Yes. Troubleshooting can address weeds, maintenance challenges, plant selection, layout, and habitat value.
Do you work with schools, nonprofits, or public organizations?
Yes. Educational programs, pollinator initiatives, and ecological landscape projects are welcomed.