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Our education and consultation services support a wide range of clients, from gardeners and landscape professionals to educators and program developers.
We provide education and consultation to help you address landscape challenges, strengthen horticultural knowledge, and develop effective learning materials.
Whether you need site‑specific advice, a custom maintenance plan, hands-on instruction, or curriculum development, we offer practical expertise and flexible options for how we work together.
HERE TO HELP: We are here to support with guidance, development, and practical insight across a wide range of landscape and horticultural topics, which are outlined below.
The deliverables we provide you with will vary depending on your specific situation and the project goals, but may include:
Thanks to our team’s broad skill set, we can help with many different educational 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!
Some 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 Nursery & 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 Nursery & 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 advice 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:
With experience in horticulture education since 2018, we provide expert guidance on teaching and learning solutions tailored to your project.
Horticulture curriculum development involves designing clear, relevant, and well‑structured learning experiences for students, trainees, or program participants. This includes shaping course content, learning outcomes, assessments, and delivery strategies that reflect current industry practices and support confident, capable learners.
Our curriculum development process is collaborative and tailored to your course or program’s needs. We work with you to understand your goals, audience, and context, then design a curriculum that is structured, engaging, and aligned with industry and learner expectations.
Our expert will:
We offer customizable workshops and conference presentations designed to fit your audience, goals, and event format.
Each session is tailored to the level of depth, style, and engagement you’re looking for — from hands‑on demonstrations to structured presentations or facilitated discussions. Whether your We aim to build skills, introduce new ideas, or spark meaningful dialogue. We create sessions that are practical, engaging, and aligned with your objectives.
Our process is collaborative and flexible, ensuring your event receives a session that feels purposeful and well‑designed.
Here’s how we work with you: