If you answered yes do you have any special requests for them (i.e. dog run).

If you answered yes are you looking for an area where you can entertain and how many people would you like to be able to entertain?

Are you planning on installing a fence around your backyard, and if so what kind?

Are you interested in any special features in your yard (i.e. water features, night lighting, putting green)

Do you have a scaled site plan of your project? This will save time on the amount of field measuring that will go into designing your project.

Landscaping is a great investment in your home. A good rule of thumb is a minimum landscape will cost around 5 percent of your home value and a nice landscape will cost around 10 percent and above the home value. With this in mind, how much are you planning to invest in your new landscape?

Would you be interested in a bid for maintenance on your new landscape?

Below is a disclaimer on the charges for a landscape design from Sylvan Nursery.

Sylvan Nursery charges $55 dollars an hour for landscape designs. Sylvan Nursery’s designers are professional landscape designers with college degrees in landscape design. This is a professional service that helps ensure good communication between contractor and customer and allows us to give you exactly what you want in your new landscape. In order for us to provide you with this professional service our staff must spend hours doing the field work for the design and then the actual design work. By signing this statement you understand that you will be charged for the design work that you have asked us to do even if you decide not to have us build the project. If you decide to have us build your project we will reimburse you half of your design fee.