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Residential & Commercial Service Offerings:
     }  Design/Installation
     }  Garden Consultation 
     }  Garden Concierge Maintenance

Tier 1 Services:   Design / Installation / Garden Concierge (Limited) with full Warranty

Tier 2 Services:   Design / Install / Wellcare with (Unlimited) with full Warranty

Tier 3 Services:   Design / Install Project - (Unlimited)  No Warranty


Process 1:  Initial Client Consultation - Available for all Service Tiers
We walk the client’s property to discuss existing plants, noting potential new plant likes and dislikes, discussing color preferences, garnering client’s proposed planting budget, taking images of the property, as well as, looking for any existing problematic areas (disease, fungus, etc.)  

• We allow for a one hour consultation period which is billed at a separate cost. 

Process 2:  Brainstorming Design Session  Available for Tier 1 & Tier 2 Services
We spend time with the client to review our design concepts, potential new plant options and costs, discuss recommendations, if any, to existing plants and finalize initial planting areas, as well as, take measurements. This session can last from one to three hours depending on the extent of the design areas. 

• There is not a separate fee for this process as it is included in the total cost of design work.

Process 3:  Final Package Delivered  Available for Tier 1 & 2 Services
The complete client package includes:

1. Hand rendered planting guide. 
2. Detailed spreadsheet which plants, varieties, color and quantity of each.  
3. Complete set of plant images.

Process 4:  Wellcare Maintenance Agreement  Available for Tier 2 Services
Because we truly want to be partners in helping our clients achieve a balanced natural eco-system, with healthy long living plants while using organic practices, we ask all our clients to choose one of our maintenance plans:

1. Quarterly Visit:  total of 4 visits 
2. Semi-Monthly Visit:  total of 6 visits
3. Monthly Visit:  total of 12 visits

 
 GARDEN CONCIERGE SERVICES -  Available for Tier 1 Services only.
This is our premier custom  service, designed for those who want impeccable garden
grooming, but do not have the time or inclination to do it themselves.
Our  Garden Valet service  maintains your garden at its full potential for beauty
throughout the year.  The skilled plant professionals of Ambiance Garden Design
combine  years of study  with  experience, and an eye for the high style
of gardening. We treat your garden as the ongoing work of art that it can be
at its best. Both  your  daily pleasure in your  home and your long-term
 investment  are  enhanced.
 
Pruning
Most landscapers prune like butchers.  We edit, shape, groom, deadhead, and
eliminate  structural problems—such as crossed limbs—with a knowledge of
what the plant likes best in order to thrive.  We firmly believe that a pruning job
should not draw inordinate attention to itself—that the tree or  shrub should
look nicely trimmed, not shorn—and that this should lead to a more harmonious
landscape as a whole. Sometimes this is not possible, as in the case of saving
an older  shrub from a disease problem, which might require surgery, but
we believe that pruning is best done with tact.
 
Fertilizing
With our monthly service visits, particular attention can be paid to fertilizing.
Commercial fertilizing tends to be general, and  as a result is hit or miss.
Our service is  specific to  each plant in your garden and its place in the whole.
As a rule, every tree and shrub will be fertilized during the last phase of its
winter dormancy, and in most cases will be given a lighter feeding before
“nature goes to bed”.  Re-blooming  shrubs, such as  encore azaleas, roses,
the summer blooming hydrangeas, etc., will be given tonic  feedings as
their  bloom cycles.  We feed for the beauty of the seasonal color, but also for the
 health and  longevity of your trees and shrubs.
 
Perennials
Our procedure for perennials includes pruning , deadheading, and feeding, of course,
 but also judicious dividing and re-planting, so that your flower  beds  can become
“stands” in the  manner  of estates over time.  As a rule, our work in the spring
Is in establishing  these stands; we train and refresh them during the summer,
and make seasonal additions in the fall before winter dormancy. Dividing and
replanting is specific to the plant in this region.
 
Annuals
Seasonal bedding plants—marigolds,  aegeratum, begonias, petunias—can
provide a pop of color when   trees and shrubs  are “in between”.
We use them judiciously, as “desert” rather than as the main course,
to  refresh beds in periods of seasonal transition—they are often in
full bloom when the perennials are just starting to bud—and  in planters and
decorative urns.  We  note your color preferences carefully, and plant
with  enhance the whole picture.
We are also happy to add to your occasions of festivity with flower pots and
custom-planted beds.

     We Specialize In:

• Boutique Landscape Designs
• Organic Practices
• Balanced Eco-System Gardening
• Feng Shui Gagua Gardening

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