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We work with homeowners and contractors alike to provide expert consultation on any situation that arises within your garden or landscape.
Garden consulting and coaching refers to our series of services that are designed to help you work through specific issues in your landscape.
For example, you might bring us to help diagnose a plant health problem, or have us draft up and provide you with a custom maintenance plan to follow.
Whether you're looking for education and instruction only, or if you'd prefer to have our team tackle it for you, North Arrow Landscapes is here to share our expertise.
HERE TO HELP: We are available to help consult and coach on a variety of landscape and gardening topics, which are outlined below.
The deliverables we provide you with will vary depending on your specific situation, but may include: education and instruction; detailed reports; aerial photos; labelled photos; maps or diagrams; simple note taking; or any combination of these items.
Thanks to our team’s broad skill set, we can help with many different garden and landscape situations. Click the links below to jump to a specific topic.
Gardening can be meditative, joyful, and physical. Our expert guidance can help ensure it's also successful!
Many people have the desire, the time, and the energy to tackle gardening tasks, but lack the know-how. If you can relate, our garden coaching service is for you.
That doesn't mean this service is only for those without a green-thumb. Regardless of your skill level, we feel that anyone can get even more out of the act of gardening with our expert guidance.
Garden coaching sessions are tailored around the unique needs of each client so your specific gardening needs are covered.
We will generally book up to a half-day session where we will walk your garden, detail the tasks required, and work with you to master the necessary techniques.
YEAR-ROUND FUN: Garden coaching is most valuable when booked once per season, as different times of year require specific maintenance tasks.
Plants are vulnerable to a huge variety of stresses, and a plant health consultation can help you determine the cause and solution of any issues.
Droughts, floods, pollution, nutrient deficiencies or toxicities, fungal pathogens, bacterial diseases, and viruses can all damage, deform, or even kill our prized plants. We are experts in identifying the huge variety of environmental and biotic stresses that plants are susceptible to.
If you need help to correctly identify and solve issues in your landscape, a plant health consultation can help prevent the often significant loss of time and financial investment you have put into your garden.
DO YOU DIY? North Arrow can identify the issue and either recommend solutions you can take yourself, or we can perform the required corrective action for you. We'll also provide you with a roadmap on how to avoid the problem in the future.
During a plant health consultation with North Arrow Landscapes we will:
We can help you to identify and make sense of what’s in your garden through a plant inventory consultation.
Have you inherited a garden or forgotten exactly what you've planted over the years? Perhaps you've recently purchased a home and want to maintain the hard work of the previous owner?
Whatever the reason, a plant inventory consultation will provide you with a clear guide as to what is in your landscape.
Knowing what’s planted in your gardens is extremely helpful for a number of reasons, including:
North Arrow Landscapes uses a combination of technology, education, and experience to create a clear image of your garden.
During a plant inventory consultation we will:
Landscape maintenance plans provide you with a concise “what to do and when to do it” strategy for your landscape.
Landscape maintenance plans are custom guides that provide you with a season-by-season maintenance schedule developed specifically for your garden, and for you to follow.
Whether your garden is the product of your own hands, has been built by another contractor, or was inherited when you purchased your home, a landscape maintenance plan will empower you with the knowledge on how to best care for it now and into the future.
DOUBLE UP: A landscape maintenance plan is a great addition to our plant inventory consultation detailed above. Pairing these two services together will give you a considerable amount of knowledge about caring for your landscape.
When you book North Arrow to provide a landscape maintenance plan, we will:
Your landscape maintenance plan will contain the basic steps to maintaining your garden, but will lack the how-to detail provided in our garden coaching service. For example, your plan may advise you to “prune your plum tree in May,” but will not provide instruction on how to prune.
WE CAN DO IT ALL: North Arrow Landscapes also provides landscape maintenance and pruning services should you wish to have us also perform the recommended care to your garden.
Our expert guidance can provide you with the proper planning you need to get the most out of your greenhouse project.
Our greenhouse consultation service provides review and advisement on a variety of key factors that can determine the success and production of any greenhouse project.
We can provide guidance on:
Whether you are a backyard enthusiast or looking to set up a small commercial operation, our experienced Certified Production Horticulturist can help with your greenhouse planning.
Our expert will: