Services

NLC design services range from site consultations to conceptual designs to full landscape plans used to obtain bids from licensed landscape contractors. Creating a custom landscape design is a collaborative process melding site (requirements / restrictions), client (wants / needs), and designer (vision / solutions).

Initial Consultation
▪ Meet on site to discuss client goals and define project objectives
▪ Create design proposal & installation budget

Site Analysis
▪ Measure & photograph existing site
▪ Document existing site conditions (solar patterns, drainage issues, adjacent elements, etc.)
▪ Draft to scale existing base plan

Conceptual Design
▪ Develop conceptual plans illustrating ideas as discussed during initial consultation and review with
client for feedback
▪ Present initial building material samples for client to consider (i.e. specific flagstone color or
pebble size)
▪ Present initial site-specific plant palette for consideration by client

Preliminary Landscape Plan
▪ Develop and present final conceptual drawing based on client feedback
▪ Present preliminary planting plan and estimate of construction cost to client for review

Landscape Plan
▪ Finalize landscape and planting plan based on client feedback
▪ Develop necessary construction drawings to assure design intent
▪ Construction drawings may include demolition plan, irrigation plan and/or lighting plan as well as
section or elevation sketches of specific garden features.

Landscape Installation & Garden Establishment
▪ Provide drawings to project-appropriate list of contractors for bidding and assist in contractor
selection and bid comparison
▪ Construction assessment: Observe the installation process regularly to ensure it meets the
design intent.
▪ Plant placement or layout verification prior planting
▪ Create and verify with both client and contractor a punch list of items to be addressed prior to
landscape being considered ‘completed’
▪ Establish 18 month maintenance guideline for new vegetation

Services

Design Process