Ways you can work with us
Our garden services include
🌳 Virtual Garden Consultation
🌳 Initial Onsite Garden Consultation
🌳 Full Design Service
🌳 Mini Project and ongoing design projects and consultations
🌳 Group garden mini courses and masterclasses
Initial Onsite Design Consultation
This is a 1x 60-90 minute onsite garden design consultation to help assist with designing your garden, rejuvenating garden areas or plant ideas.
Often this is a precursor session to an overall concept plan or detailed garden plan. It can help you to decide if you’d like to go ahead further and work with us on a full plan for your garden.
This session can assist you with designing your garden areas, alleviating any challenges, give you the tools and ideas to move forward and the best garden design decisions for creating your garden. We can also look at your soil and provide soil improvement suggestions. As well as possibly looking at aspect, layouts and best approach to design, as well as discussion about plant ideas.
This consultation session is onsite in your garden. Please contact us for booking at hello@karenwagnergardendesign.com.au
Travel costs and time will be added for areas greater than 15 mins driving outside of our local Hobart zone and for interstate consultations.
Following the consultation, it is possible to have a detailed written report outlining the suggestions and information discussed. This could include small sketch drawings of concepts or specific items, plant suggestions and plant list, images, soil preparation advice, planting instructions or similar details. This is an extra charged at our hourly rate.
This consultations can also be used to help with ideas for pots, balconies, terraces and all the plants that go with them.
We allocate a limited number of these sessions each year simply due to time constraints with ongoing projects and masterclasses. Bookings are on a first come first serve basis.
Virtual Design Consultation
This is a 1x60 minute phone based session designed to assist you with designing your garden areas, alleviating any challenges, give you the tools and ideas to move forward and the best garden design decisions for creating your garden.
It can be an initial consultation, a problem solving design challenge, or part of a series of ongoing coaching sessions. The main focus is on helping you design a garden you love and providing a wealth of information and design ideas for you.
You’ll likely find your thoughts about how to go about creating your garden entirely refreshed and will now be all ready to get going your garden project.
Participants are asked to send pictures and/or videos of your garden areas and a list of questions prior to your consultation to ensure we maximise the time we have for garden design and gardening.
We allocate a limited number of these sessions each year simply as due to time constraints with other projects and masterclasses. Bookings are on a first come first serve basis.
Following the consultation, it is possible to have a detailed written report outlining the suggestions and information discussed. This could include small sketch drawings of concepts or specific items, plant suggestions and plant list, images, soil preparation advice, planting instructions or similar details. This is charged at our hourly rate.
This consultations can also be used to help with ideas for pots, balconies, terraces and all the plants that go with them.
Book by sending an email to
hello@karenwagnergardendesign.com.au
Full Garden Design Consultation
We offer a full design service to assist with your garden project.
This can start from scratch or work with an existing garden.
Our full design service can include an extensive briefing and initial onsite consultation, site survey if required, a general concept plan & plant ideas list to be approved by the garden owner.
From there we can embark on a detailed landscape plan including hard landscaping & materials, planting plan, soil preparation & maintenance guide (as needed).
The garden can be constructed yourself or by your preferred landscaper or put out to tender. We can assist with the ongoing project, liaising with the landscape contractor, sourcing of plants, planting and establishment as well as help finding ongoing gardening and maintenance.
Landscape Design Services
Design fees can range from $1900+ for a single area to approx. $3800+ for a standard sized block with front/back/side gardens. Each site is quoted individually and is determined by the complexity, size, number of features required (e.g. retaining walls, pergolas etc)
The design fee is calculated after the initial design consultation and is a set fee.
A survey is often required unless a comprehensive survey is already available. A surveyor can provide a separate quote for the survey as required.
A full design service includes:
Site visits at each stage of the design (approx. 5 visits)
Hand drawn sketch concept plan shows initial design ideas and how the garden will come together and the placement of features.
Hand coloured concept plan includes a visual depiction of the proposed garden, description of planting, materials, infrastructure and will give you a good sense of how the garden will be, once completed. It can be rendered in colour if desired and will include plan views and elevations when required, as well as images of materials, concepts and plants.
Hard landscaping plan, which will show dimensions, materials, some levels and design concepts in order to obtain quotes and to be constructed. It will include irrigation and lighting design as required. Some structural elements may need to be designed by appropriately qualified persons and may require council approval.
Contact list of suppliers, landscape contractors etc.
Planting Plan – All plants selected and shown on the plan.
Planting Schedule (list of all plants, numbers, where to source, maintenance), with image gallery of the plants, general maintenance guide and soil preparation advice, specific to your site.
Mini Projects
Garden Design Consultations
To assist with creating your gardens we also have ongoing onsite sessions and mini project sessions if you have already had your initial garden consultation.
These sessions can be invaluable for furthering your garden projects, helping with design challenges or if you are now at the point in your project where you would like a detailed plant ideas and planting list.
These can be done either virtually or onsite.
Or engage us on an hourly basis to provide you with your garden plant suggestion list for your climate area, maintenance & soil rejuvenation, planting plans. project ideas etc. All these and any other ongoing project requirements can also be undertaken on an hourly rate. Contact us on hello@karenwagnergardendesign.com.au for more information and times.
