This service has proven very effective in bringing clients a professional design at an economical cost, permitting us to work with people all over the country and the world. In this process, you contact us either by mail, email or through the form below. Tell us your interests, your wants and needs and send pictures of your property. We will then contact you, ask some questions and give you a price for creating your design.
Here is the latest comment from a recent client in London, England:
"Firstly, we love the design; we get compliments all the time! Our neighbours call it Kew Gardens ;) And the process worked very well for us. It was easy enough to send pictures and dimensions, and I really appreciate that you came back with two plans to choose from. I didn't need the planting plan in the end, which you tried to tell me, I know. Perhaps all I needed was just a little direction to suggest that I look around for a style that I liked in some gardening books. Once I found that, I was fully inspired and well on my way. Further, I'm also glad that I did the garden by myself, rather than hiring someone else to do it. (FYI Landscaping companies wanted to charge us £20,000 to put it together.) There are so many directions that the planting could have gone. Any problems with the garden, I can only blame myself and learn from my mistakes. But mostly, I just love our garden and know it really well because I put it together myself. In the end, I only spent about £1,000, plus the 13 double-u cordoned apple trees to line the property will be here soon - so that's another £600 --- (but these effectively replace our fence so I don't count that.) Huge thanks to you. I thought the process was easy and the design was lovely :) Well done and thanks again!!! All the best, Gale"
Before Design Plan In Progress later in progress
To see more images posted by the client on flicker, click here.
In response to my comment to Gale that she had done a great job, she responded: " Thanks Keith... but I think it's all down to your design. We are really enjoying it. "
From another client in Southern California: " Keith, it has been a pleasure working with you. We appreciate your fresh and clever ideas to our unique challenges and we look forward to converting those ideas to reality. Thanks in advance for your offer to help out when it comes time to implement. I'm confident that our home will be transformed and have delusions of glory that it might inspire others!" W. Holloman
From another client in Israel: All in all, a day came when the garden suddenly looked whole again. it is lovely, it has a magical air about it, and every body who come says the same: "its a slice of Eden...". though there is some work left to be done, the garden is harmonious and inviting and so I feel, I have hard time staying away from it, and though its exceedingly hot in Israel- I go out to sit there in every opportunity I have - just to refresh and reload energy. I JUST LOVE IT. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, because without your help, support, advice and plan - it would not come to be and I will send some more pictures later with so many thanks Michal Yakir
Israel
Some guidelines concerning fees:
A longstanding rule of thumb is that for traditional landscape design, the design fee should come in somewhere around fifteen percent to twenty percent of the cost of implementing the landscape. However, until the garden is designed, the cost of implementing is not knowable so this formula is never used to determine the cost of a design. Rather it is helpful in understanding what to expect.
For on-line design this figure comes in closer to ten percent of the implementation cost.
If this service interests you, do know that there is no commitment in contacting us - it is simply an inquiry at this stage. And if you have any questions, please feel free to email or call.
To fill out the form below, just let us know your interests and needs, who is in your family, if you have pets and what sorts of things you like, what styles you like and what you like to do outside. Later, if you decide to proceed we'll ask for a site survey, if available, or for measurements and a rough sketch of the property layout.
Things to think of while filling out the form:
- Do you have pets? Don't forget them. A landscape design that does not include the fact of a dog or an outdoor cat will be a landscape design that fails.
- Do you have children? How many, what ages, and what do they like to do?
- What does your spouse like? Sometimes spouses are very similar in their tastes and sometimes they are very different. We need to know about your spouse's tastes because you would probably be amazed at the possibilities for a unified landscape design that thoroughly pleases you both. That is the beauty of design. When properly approached, it really works.
- Tell us how you would like to use the space, if you entertain and for how many.
- Do you like water features?
- Do you want to grow vegetables?
- Would you like to dine in the garden
- And anything else you can think of
Tell us everything you can think of that might help us know what you like and what you are like. Virtually everything you say, no matter what you say, will be helpful.
Pictures
Send your pictures. These are an essential component of the online landscape design process. I need to see your space or property and the pictures you take are crucial. If you have a digital camera, great. You can email the pictures. Otherwise, please use the post.
Tips For Taking Photos:
- Stand in one corner of your garden and take a series of pictures that will show the entire space, one picture slightly overlapping another, from that spot. Then do the same from the other corners. Do this both from the house looking out and from the property looking toward the house.
- If you have an upstairs room looking down on the garden area, take one or two from there too.
- If you don't mind, We'd appreciate knowing how you found Gardens of Keith Davitt - books, a referral, an article in a magazine, a web search...
Don't forget to hit the 'Submit' button at the bottom.