Educational Landscape Consultation

Lisa's Landscape & Design ♦ 02/12/2012 ♦ 19 Comments

This is great time to think about getting a professional landscape consultant to give you some new idea’s, plant suggestions, tips on organic gardening and more. As a consultant I use the time purchased by my clients to educate them on their entire property. There is a wealth of information a professional with my 20 plus years of Central Texas gardening experience and education can provide to you. I am a Master Gardener, a certified Oak Wilt specialist, Certified Landscape Designer and Water Conservationist who specializes in native and adapted low water, low maintenance, organic gardens.  I have designed over 100 spaces and there are never two designs or Consultations alike. Each space is unique and each design is personal.

A little piece of heaven.

From Contemporary Modern, to English Garden or Tuscan, allow me to help you design the space you are excited to come home to. A consultation can get you on the right track to understanding your timing costs and overall concept. If the project is too large, a landscape design might be a better solution and the cost of the consult goes towards your design.

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Before you hire a landscape installer, hire a landscape design consultant because just because someone knows how to use a shovel doesn’t mean they know plants. Allow me to use my 20 years experience with native and adapted landscape plants, 15 years of hardscape and plant installation and money saving techniques to save you thousand on your next bid by teaching you the tricks of the trade. Rather it be plant selection, soil, lawn care, shrub or tree maintenance and instruction, or just looking for inspiration and design ideas there are a number of solutions that may be right for you. I can teach you helpful hints about water conservation, native and adaptive plant selections or simply give direction on what is the fastest most inexpensive way to hide an unsightly neighbor or defuse noise.

I love this shot, it is a great view from the top of the hill to the seating area below. I have used a combination of TX perennials with seasonal annuals to make a statement of color with leaves in a really dark space.

Being a landscape designer, installer, educator and consultant allows me to create clever solutions to your problems in addition to providing an educational experience so you will get a thoughtfully designed and artistic solution, not just a functional one. I am not there to sell you anything, my job is to teach you to do it yourself or to help you decide what to hire out and how to bid a project. I am teaching you to discern and articulate what you need without the expectation of making a sale, no one else can offer you that as most landscape companies are on your property to sell you a bill of goods, not to teach you about your land. I began my business as a personal gardener taking care of large xeriscape properties in addition to my own Xerophytic gardens that consist of native and adapted plants and trees and rains barrels and I grow much of my own food so I have personally done the work for many years and I know how its done and how long it takes. This helps me show you how to do it and what to expect.

This Coral Bean is a great example of a single trunk shrub that can be trimmed into a multi-trunk specimen tree.

My fee is $350 in person to a limited area and $225 through Zoom for the Austin and surrounding area including Leander, Round Rock, Georgetown, Pflugerville, Buda, Kyle, San Marcos Wimberly, Oak Hill and Dripping Springs. The cost is well worth it considering how much I will save you from making costly mistakes! My motto is that “I am saving the Planet One Yard at a Time”. With good stewardship and organic protocols we can repair the damage that’s been done and plant for the future. I would love it if everyone in the world had a garden space to enjoy, some of you will tend it yourself and the others will employ passionate people like myself. You can reach me at lisalapaso@gmail.com to make an appointment, or call me at (512)733-7777.

I think it is important though that if you don’t call me, (and I hope you do) call someone. Everyone who owns a home should be knowledgeable and responsible about their land, there is a wealth of free information and passionate people like me who would love to help.

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Happy Gardening!!

Lisa LaPaso

Lisa’s Landscape & Design (“like” me on Facebook for updated information, plant lists, seasonal information and inspiration!)

” Saving the Planet One Yard at a Time”

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“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” — Kozuko Okakura