subject: Affordable Options For Seattle Landscaping [print this page] Seattle is a beautiful sprawling urban city loaded with culture and rain. Many residents have complained for years that their flowers get too soggy and die quickly. Yet their grass and weeds grow all too fast, no matter what season it is. In frustration, most people just choose a professional Seattle landscaping service.
For many homeowners, however, today's economy is creating some severe budget cutbacks when it comes to home services. People are trying to cut back wherever possible, and one of these places is of course landscaping services. These same homeowners quickly realized that local high schools and colleges have many a group culturally trained students available to do local work for very reasonable rates. Although not licensed as of yet, they can perform most routine work very satisfactorily.
Larger companies are frequently happy to come out and act as nothing more than a consultant rather than as a project manager. This comes in handy if you have a very good idea of what you're looking for such as the layout, the type of plants, the trees, etc. If you really have no idea how to start simply buy some home and gardening magazines and start cutting out pictures.
There is a difference between hiring a landscaper as a consultant or hiring him as a project manager for the entire project . Typically, hiring a landscaper as a consultant is much cheaper than using him for every aspect of the job at hand. As a consultant, he will give you a detailed outline of what to buy and where to put it, what design to use, and maybe even sketch out some possibilities for the actual workers to follow.
Don't be afraid to have companies come out to give you estimates. Most companies provide free estimates and some, even though they charge, will deduct that money from their final invoice, should you hire them to do the project.
Many plants only thrive in certain regions of the country. Each plant will usually have a notation on the container explaining exactly what zones it will live in. If you have your landscaper order plants, it's a good idea to double check that each container definitely has plants that will thrive in the zone associated with the wet and chilly Seattle area.
If you are using a landscaper as a consultant and have decided to do a lot of the work on your own, such as choosing and planting flowers, make certain that you are only buying flowers and plants that have been zoned specifically for the Seattle area.
