Hello,
My wife and I bought our first home a year ago. The front yard is very dull.
When I was growing up, I was the neighborhood garden boy. But I never gained much experience designing -- I just planted things wherever the neighbor wanted them.
So I want to improve the front yard with some basic landscaping, but don't have the time or energy thinking and researching about which plants and which materials. I know I want "a red wall that goes like this and some bay grass stuff that goes like that, and something blue over there". But's that's all I got.
I am considering hiring a professional designer -- but that depends on the price. I would be interested in just purchasing a design, and maybe a materials list. But I would want to do the work myself, perhaps over the next few years depending on how things go.
Anybody know a ballpark figure of what a basic landscape design costs? I know the answer is "it depends", but I am hoping to get some ballparks to see if I am barking up the right tree.
Thanks,
Chris