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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am PP who has her own successful landscape design (only) practice. It sounds like most of those responding won't be your customers and do not understand the business.

I probably don't have a typical fee but my entree is about $6500-$8500 for the design and then I charge hourly to supervise the installation and make at least that again. My highest design fee was $85,000 for the original design and I have been back for tweaks nearly every year since. I design everything from decks, porches, swimming pools, driveways, drainage, walls, gardens - and work with architects on new homes or rework established gardens. I find the right landscape contractors (and bring them enough work that I am a priority for them so my clients get on their schedules when I need them to be.) I don't want to grow bigger and stay mostly part time. I hire extra help as needed and there are enough landscape architects/sometimes I even hire just architects around who just don't have the go it alone personality.

I only design/install container gardens for about a dozen of my clients  but people pay me $1000's of dollars to do and then come back again year after to year to update.

Those suggesting you work for an established company have no idea you'll be lucky to make $15/hr. If you have the background that you mentioned - you'll do well on your own.[/quote]

There's a difference between paying someone with clear skills, certifications, and a professional body of work between $4,000 - $8,000 for the plans and supervision of the new landscaping versus someone who just picked up the profession and decided they can do it. OP is a mom with a hobby who wants $500 for a day of doing something I could ask the home depot teller clerk about.

If I asked you about drainage issues or sediment values or the possibility of putting a koi pond versus a hot tub in I'm sure you'll have information on what I'm seeking, excellent partners I can work with and potentially experience doing exactly what I wanted. I would be willing to pay what you're worth and I actually plan to in the next year but I'm not going to hire someone who is only able to half-ass it and still be out a couple hundred bucks. [/quote]

NP here. Didn't OP say her previous work experience and education are in lansdscape design? That doesn't sound like just a "mom with a hobby" to me, why do you assume that? True she's been home for eight years, but this doesn't strike me as the type of field where her knowledge would get out of date that quickly -- it's not a high-tech start-up.

Yes, she'll need to build up a more recent portfolio to show clients. But why act like her previous education and experience are worth nothing?[/quote]

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