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Benefits of using a garden designer or landscape designer
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Living Pictures
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Your garden designer should provide creativity and imagination. He or she should be able to integrate plants, garden features, water features and garden spaces to create a beautiful garden that meets your needs with regard to maintenance demands and proposed uses.
Your garden designer should be an expert horticulturist who can select the right plant for the right place with due regard for soil, climate and the theme of the garden.
In addition, and most importantly your designer should fully understand the practical aspects of garden design to take into account wind, shade, gradient or slope, drainage, and irrigation. Together with a strong understanding of building and construction methodology they can then design paving, lawn and plantscape, retaining walls, shade structures and screens.
All of this means a garden that works, is beautiful, uses the minimum amount of water and takes less effort to maintain.
In short it is "done right the first time" thus saving time and money to create a Living Picture that you can be proud of.
Planning ensures that:
- Proportion and scale are accurately reproduced.
- The correct number of plants are used.
- Plants are accurately placed.
- The correct amount of materials are ordered.
- Materials are used correctly.
- Construction levels are accurate.
- Construction is carried out in compliance with Australian Building Standards.
- Work is completed in the correct order to avoid rework.
- Contractors have accurate dimensions and specifications to quote from.
- DIY installers can faithfully reproduce the design with all of its appeal as intended by the designer.
- Nothing is left to chance.
Remember: Inaccurate estimating of materials by as little as five per cent can waste more than the cost of the plans.
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