Design consultation

Consultations are a chance for you to visit the client’s site to assess the space and ask questions. You’ll then create a few rough ideas and finalize the design with the client.

Standalone design consultations can be a good fit for clients on a budget who want to do the work themselves.

Landscape design

The Pros, Inc. Landscape design include planning and designing outdoor living spaces before doing any digging or planting. You can offer design as a standalone service or as the first step of a larger landscaping project. We also provide customized landscaping design services too.

Our landscape design services include:

• Hardscaping: This type of design incorporates the “hard” elements of an outdoor space, like brick and rock. For example, a hardscape design could include a plan for a brick patio, stone wall, or fountain.
• Softscaping: Softscape covers any plants that will be included in an outdoor space, like trees, shrubs, and flowers. A client might want hedges lining their property, trees planted in specific spots, or flowerbeds laid out in a certain way.
• Xeriscaping: An environmentally friendly landscaping method, xeriscaping involves building outdoor spaces that need little to no irrigation. Xeriscapes often have hardy, low-water plants like cacti, or are designed to collect and distribute rainfall among plants

Grading

If a surface isn’t flat and the client wants to plant new grass, you’ll need to level the surface to prepare for planting. This can be a good add-on service if you also offer sodding or seeding.

Tree removal

Some clients may want to remove trees as part of their softscape design. You can cut a tree down yourself if you’re trained to do it safely

Sod or turf installation

Sodding is a fast way to create an instant lawn where there wasn’t one before. It involves picking up, unrolling, and laying down strips of healthy turf (or sod), then watering heavily to help the grass take root in the soil beneath

Lawn returfing

You can remove old grass that’s too damaged to save, then install new turf. Some clients might need only small areas re-turfed, while others need their lawn completely redone

Patio installation

Constructing a patio on ground level involves building a base, adding a setting bed, and laying the paving. You may also want to add services like grading, planning, and detailing for a start-to-finish experience

Deck installation

Above-ground deck construction starts with an on-site consultation where you take measurements. From there, you design and plan the deck, then build the foundation and structure.

Homeowners are usually responsible for getting the right permits, but you can offer this as an added service

Fence installation

Fences are posts connected by boards, wire, rails, or netting. To build a fence, you’ll meet with the client, create technical drawings, dig holes for the fence posts, set the posts in concrete, and secure the framework to the posts. You might also offer finishing work like painting or staining

Retaining wall installation

Retaining walls support soil at an angle that it normally couldn’t maintain on its own, like for a raised garden bed. This type of installation needs planning and design to make sure the wall (and the soil) stay put

Water/fire feature installation

Some clients want water or fire features like fountains, waterfalls, ponds, or fire pits. This type of landscape construction service takes some specialized knowledge, but it can also provide more opportunities for your business

Irrigation installation

Adding irrigation involves visiting the site, deciding on the best placement, and installing the system. To offer this service, you’ll need to understand how water systems work and how technology can control water flow

Path or driveway installation

You can work with clients to plan, design, and build custom paths and driveways. This often involves paving the area with brick, concrete, bluestone, flagstone, or another hard material.