Sorry for taking so long to reply. Haven't checked the board in a long time.
Why would I hate you? You said our work shows that we are amateur, which we are. I was asking for opinions of the members here--whether they be good or bad. I believe we do exceptional work for being so new in the business but never the less we are still new to the landscape side of things.
I agree with you that the design doesn't blend well with the surrounding houses. But is that such a bad thing? The inside of the customers house was completly modern, funkadelic bachelor style. Black leather, stainless steel, bar etc. . . The style of the landscape compliments the owners choice of taste which is what thought was important.
The plants do look sparse because we did not use fully mature plants. I wish we would have but opted to keep the cost down in that area. The plants are spaced for mature size. Along the back fence we asked the owner if he preffered shrubs or the spruces.
As far as not matching the neighbors? Who cares. If anything I'm happy about it. When the neighbors look outside and see his backyard hopefully they feel that theirs is the one that doesn't belong and calls us to help them. We recieved many compiments from the neighbors and possible picked up another job similar. She can't afford it at the moment but has our number. And I'm confident when she decides to do it we will be the first on her list to call.
Not really sure how you came up with this comment. I suppose in the pictures it looks a little shakey but I assure you it is not. The wall built around the tree was not in the original design. We had extra stone and offered to add that wall. So that wall is built with odds and ends stone which made it look not quite perfect but overall came out just fine.
Client liked it. I'm happy
As far as education, I went to school for Computer Science. Obviously my degree doesn't really help landscape design but I have taken plenty of art classes and understand the elements of design. I suppose they are different in landscape?
Originally posted by MASTERMOWER
Originally posted by MASTERMOWER
The plants do look sparse because we did not use fully mature plants. I wish we would have but opted to keep the cost down in that area. The plants are spaced for mature size. Along the back fence we asked the owner if he preffered shrubs or the spruces.
As far as not matching the neighbors? Who cares. If anything I'm happy about it. When the neighbors look outside and see his backyard hopefully they feel that theirs is the one that doesn't belong and calls us to help them. We recieved many compiments from the neighbors and possible picked up another job similar. She can't afford it at the moment but has our number. And I'm confident when she decides to do it we will be the first on her list to call.
Originally posted by MASTERMOWER
Originally posted by MASTERMOWER
As far as education, I went to school for Computer Science. Obviously my degree doesn't really help landscape design but I have taken plenty of art classes and understand the elements of design. I suppose they are different in landscape?
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