Why a garden with a professional?

Why should you tackle a garden with a professional (garden/landscape architect, planner, garden designer, experienced gardener)? Because experienced and knowledgeable specialist should be able to analyze the space, to highlight its pros, to suppress its cons, should assesses each plot individually and should fit the planting to local conditions and to owners´ demands as well. He should consider all required activities and he should plan them thoughtfully. Of course, there are few enthusiasts, who either by chance, intuitively or by reading books could compose a nice mixed border. A professional should be always a few steps ahead. People often can´t figure out necessary context, nor relations between animate and inanimate nature, environmental influences, and not even influences of individual plants with each other. Many people don´t realise plants are living organisms with certain requirements and we can´t plant them anywhere. We can transplant plants, but it´s stressful for them and multiple transplanting by searching for the better place they may not survive. Real professional, trained and experienced, should have a wide plant-range knowledge and planting-technology knowledge. With this personal benefit into planning process and subsequent garden construction (DIY or by a constructor´s company), a specialist will save your money for trial and error, in many cases also for purchasing plants and other material. It should be added, that not a few gardeners (planners, designers) are on the market, but no everyone is a specialist, which can be called professional meeting all the criteria above mentioned.

Every designer has its own style, but it doesn´t mean his favoured range is suitable for any garden. This is the detail (how deeply is the gardener interested in owner´s wishes, as far as it takes this into account, how he can answer the questions and how he can – profesionally and reasonably – reject some requests, if he can explain his steps clearly), that´s all indicia you´re negotiating with the right person. Exaggerated confidence and nothing-is-impossible attitude let it be a warning for you. No one can do everything and it´s not a shame to verify the information or to consult it with another specialized experienced gardener. So then, why a garden with a professional person? Because he saves your time, money and the result is beautiful functional garden offering you more, additional space for living, a garden where you are simply fine.