FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
All of our projects are unique in many different aspects. We don't offer square foot pricing for walks and patios due to site requirement and accessability, We also find it hard to do that with ponds and other landscape project because those too are unique. We are not the cheapest but by hiring us, you probaby would not base your decision on price alone. Your decision would be based on your comfort in meeting the owner, salesman, designer, foreman and worker on site and the person you call or speak if there is a concern or question and not to mention you loved our portfolio and the plan we had for you!
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I have taking many cources throughout my career to enhance my knowledge in different areas of landscaping. I am an ICPI certified segmented concrete pavement (pavers) installer, I took courses in outdoor lighting from Nightscaping in the 90's and from Cast in the mid 2000's, bidding and estimating courses with Charles Vanderkooi and Associates, Subscribe to all of the hardscape industry magazine that have the lastest technologies and information. Since I have moved to Texas, I am looking forward to getting more involved in irrigation even though I installed my first Hunter system in 1981.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I became a landscaper by being bribed by my brother in the early 1980's to do side work for crazy money in his landscape business. I tried to work for him part time ( my passion and occupation at the time was a cook and eventually the chef of a 4 star restaurant in Nyank, NY) but as brothers he drove me crazy. He would hire me at $1.00 per foot to lay out his landscape beds and cut the edges with an edging shovel. the average landscpe would have a 100 feet or more or beds so in an afternoon I could do 500-600 feet of beds. His company was swamped with work so eventually I had to leave the retaurant business and open my own company in 1988-89. Landscape expessions.