Want a Garden Design?

March 21st, 2020

   My wife and I were going to visit our daughter in Amsterdam the next two weeks, but now that that’s off – along with my entire spring schedule of talks – I suddenly have time to do a few garden designs again.

Here’s a scale drawing with the colored option.

   After I retired from 18 years of Garden House-Calls home visits, I offered designs only for a couple of years in which people sent me dimensions and photos, and I sent them back a scale design and detailed plant list.

   If you’re thinking about redoing an area or digging a new bed or three, I’ll be happy to develop a planting plan.

   Your job is to get the measurements, snap a few photos, and fill out my three-page questionnaire on preferences and goals, and I’ll take it from there.

   You pay just for the drawing time, which is $50 an hour.

   I’ll give you an estimate up front based on the size and scope of the area to be drawn. To give you an idea, I can usually design a house-front in two-and-a-half to three hours, and the entire way around a house in five to six hours.

   In the end, you get a letter-coded design on graph paper along with a list of specific plants for each of the marked spots. I use graph paper with each box representing one foot. That makes it easy for you to just count the boxes and plant on the dots.

   The plant list includes sizes, specific cultivars (along with alternate options in most cases), and how many of each plant you’ll need.

   Additional options are available if you want them, such as:

   * Color-coding for your drawing: $25

   * Custom plant-care instructions for all plants on your drawing: $25

   * Copy of my “Yard-Care Survivor Manual” (24-page instruction manual for the yard): $8

   * Current copy of my detailed, 19-page “George’s Survivor Plants for Central Pa.” list, updated for 2020: $8

   * Signed copy of my “Pennsylvania Getting Started Garden Guide,” a 240-page Cool Springs Press book featuring the 170 best landscape plants for Pa. yards: $20

   * Signed copy of my “Pennsylvania Month-by-Month Gardening” book, a 240-page Cool Springs Press book that details how and when to care for your landscape, laid out in a month-by-month format: $20

   I’ll probably be doing these only for this spring and maybe into summer… until talks and trips are back to normal from the COVID-19 pandemic.

   If you’re interested in a drawing or have questions, give me a call at 717-737-8530 or email me at george@georgeweigel.net.