How to Prepare For Your Initial Consultation

In preparation for our first meeting, please take time to:

• Collect and record any ideas that you may have about your garden, including:
• how you use your outdoor spaces now  and how you would like to use them in the future
  
• your likes/dislikes about the current space
• plants, colors, materials, furniture that you like/dislike
• others gardens, large or small, that you would like to emulate

• Discuss your ideas with your spouse, partner, children, others who use the space
  

• Look at pictures, then gather images that illustrate aspects of a landscape that appeal to you. These might be:
  
• snapshots from a vacation
• photos from a public garden or a friend's house
• books, magazines, catalogues, web photos

• Make a copy of the survey of your property, which you probably received when you purchased your home