Many people feel that when they are ready to design their garden or landscape, that they “need” a landscape designer. This is probably due to a lack of confidence, or the all to common idea that only a “professional” could possibly to the job. Also there is the fear that they may some how irrevocably ruin their garden from here to eternity. Let us put that one to rest immediately.

Landscape designers, or Architects, create an idea, concept or plan, if not all, of what your garden could look like, or become. They don’t actually do any of the manual work, like digging trenches, shifting soil or planting trees. They are the “ideas” people. It is you that makes the decision whether to do it yourself, or hire someone to follow the plan drawn out by the designer. So, if you are unable to follow a plan, forget it. You may wish to hire a gardening contractor who can, but, if you want to do it all yourself - do you really need a landscape designer?

Designing your own garden or landscape, does not have to be an overwhelming task. Consider this:

• Take a chair and place it in the middle of your proposed new landscape, have a pen and a pad with you.
• Take your time. Look at your proposed garden area, contemplate it. Do not think for a moment, that you are going to do this in a day. That will only lead to disappointment - and you may as well just go straight back inside and turn the telly on. Take a little time, do a little planning. Move the chair to different ares of you garden, to get a bit of perspective.
• What would you like to have in your garden?
• Colour, shade, somewhere to sit that is shady and colourful?
• Somewhere to entertain, or for the kids to play?
• Something like…a….
• butterfly patch
• water feature, oh, nice.
• a patch of wildflowers
• herb garden, right near the kitchen, there.
• Gotta have a vegetable garden!
• Better have a shed, too, to store your tools. Where would that be best placed? Don’t waste a sunny position for a garden shed. Sheds don’t need the sun, but your garden does!
• Some garden furniture? Somewhere pleasant, like near the jasmine, or the herbs? Personally, I like to sit smack-bang in the middle, where I can see everything; and contemplate what is going on.
• Take all your ideas and mark them out on a large sheet of graph-paper. Do this as many times as need be, until you have a design you are happy with, and, that makes sense to you.
• Once you have the design you are most pleased with, get a tape measure! This little tool is about to become your best friend!

The last point is probably one of the most important - and I will add to that - measure twice, cut once! Collect as much information and specifications, as you can about any hardscape you are planning in your garden. This means; any furniture, structures, paths, patios, ponds, dance-floors or spas. This stuff goes in first! The garden goes in around it. Plants are very forgiving and can be moved or cut back and all will be forgiven. However, if you have been slack on the measuring side of things - someone is bound to be not happy having to sit half-in half-out of the pond whilst have lunch - and moving the pond now, may very well be impossible.

Buy or build your garden structures and furniture, first; and place them where you think they might go. Then create your garden around them. That is another reason I put my benches and seats in the middle - I fan out from there, giving an enormous illusion of depth, as I go. If you cannot afford to buy or construct the big stuff, to begin with - merely, peg-out the areas where they will go, and continue with the rest.

A landscape designer can look at your available space, and suggest possible uses for it. These people are experienced in combining utility with attractiveness. If you really, really, want a floating dance floor in the middle of your garden, then at least a designer, being experienced in utilisation of “space” can advise you on the practicalities of the area available to you. It really depends on how much you want to spend, and whether you can afford such expensive advice. Certainly they will be able to advise you on the placement of such things as walkways, arbours and ponds, but keep in mind - the plan you are presented with, showing a completed, mature garden, very attractive with all those established trees placed just so - although this person is a professional designer/architect - they are not necessarily also a gardener. Everyone knows what a tree looks like on a plan - but you need a gardener to tell you what sort of tree is suitable.

With the help of local nuseries, you can find information about the growth habits of plants and trees that interest you, and whether or not they will be suitable where you thought to plant them. If, whilst at a nursery, you find you are attracted to a particular piece of garden furniture or structure, try it out. Sit on it, or in it, don’t just buy it because it looks good, only to find that this is the one thing in your garden that everyone avoids - because it is too uncomfortable, or, just too silly for words. Additionally, you can browse online to find plans for a variety of projects and landscape designs.

Many are the plans online for garden furniture and structures. Also, there is a fair amount of landscaping software available online. It is fun to use the software to figure out various possibilities for your home, and some of them even come with information like what you need for a specific design, and approximate costs. This software not only provides great amusement, but it can also be helpful as you try to figure out what you would like to do about your landscape.

If you are just starting out, into the world of gardening - start small. By this I mean: do as much as you are comfortable doing. If this means planting only one thing, then planting one thing is all you do. Never overdo it, as you will find your enthusiasm for the project waning, if not utterly vanishing at the thought of getting out there again. Remember - this is NOT a race!

If you are starting from scratch, Do You Really Need a Landscape Designer?

Chris Meagher

http://start-a-garden.com/index/gardening/gardening-is-too-hard-more-like-too-much-fun

I recently had a chance to interview the fine team of professionals
at WebBusinessSecrets.com whose flagship product is entitled “Get
Google Ads Free.”

In April of 2007 “Get Google Ads Free” was launched, and the effect
was nothing less than equal to “the shot heard around the world!”

Within just weeks people everywhere were talking about it, and
other top-notch online marketers were scurrying to sell it as an
Affiliate for the company.

But here’s a little insight that 99.9% of everyone the world over
doesn’t know:

The Product’s greatest endorser is none other than Google itself!

That’s right. As shocking as it may seem, Google has NO problem
with the course that reveals how anyone can get ads on their search
engine for Free!

Now, at this point I know you must be curious as to how such a
thing is possible, as Google makes its money from the sale of both
AdWords (PPCs) and AdSense (where webmasters allow Google to show
their ads on their pages).

One might think that any information that revealed how an
advertiser could get their AdWords pay-per-clicks free would be
damaging to Google, and therefore Google would not want anyone
finding out about it, right?

WRONG! It seems that the secret system developed by the retired
native New York doctor contains an interesting “twist” that while
allowing advertisers to eliminate their AdWords costs, it does not
reduce a single dollar in AdWords revenue for Google.

In fact, just the opposite!

I cannot give away the secret here because that’s why it’s for sale
in the first place.

But I can tell you that with the application of what’s inside “Get
Google Ads Free” that:

  - Google loses NO money
  - Google actually can make even more M0NEY!
  - Advertisers gain an instant almost unfair advantage over anyone
    not knowing what’s inside “Get Google Ads Free!”
  - Advertisers can now afford to outbid their competition!
  - Advertisers are not at risk any longer as their advertising
    budgets no longer matter!

Wow! And this is just the beginning!

Now, where’s the definitive PROOF that Google endorses the amazing
system shown in “Get Google Ads Free?”

I asked this question to company spokesperson and Vice President of
Sales & Marketing, Mr Todd Coutrin, to which he responded:
   “We started our launch like we always do with any product online,
    using Google AdWords to offer our Product.

   “We used keywords that contained the word ‘free’ so we
    anticipated the usual HOLD these keywords usually cause any
    campaign using them to experience.

   “But when our campaign was paused by Google for a tad more time
    than what we regularly anticipated, then we got concerned.

   “I actually placed a call directly to Google at 1-866-2-GOOGLE
    and spoke at length with a customer services rep who said she’d
    check into what was happening.

   “She returned my call 16 hours later and informed me that due to
    the specific nature of the Product in question (i.e., the ebook
    “Get Google Ads Free!”) their team at Google secured the
    product, read it all the way trough, and then realizing it would
    NOT hurt their revenue but actually increase it, they
    immediately un-paused and resumed our ads”
Amazing! They actually got what amounts to a Signed Certificate of
APPROVAL from Google itself!

Therefore, anyone who questions the truth or legality concerning
“Get Google Ads Free!” need not fret at all.

Yet, the usual “naysayers” seemed to ignore the obvious fact that
if Google had a problem with “Get Google Ads Free!” then we all
wouldn’t be seeing all the PPC ads at Google each time we type in
the keywords and phrases:

   - free ads
   - free advertising
   - “Get Google Ads Free”
   - free ppc
   - free adwords

And so forth!

Yet, there are many very stubborn, even foolish, among us …

  > The “Crybaby Syndrome <

To be fair, I must also inform you of those who seem to be out to
get the company for sharing their amazing secret with the world.

In what seems nothing more than a ploy to get attention, a UK
online firm operated by two “wanna-be” law students have a Blog that
talks the usual trash about the Product.

The Blog’s owner, Rob Scott, talks a big game by claiming the
secret system to be nothing short of a scam! He even recklessly
throws around the potentially libelous phrase  “.con (Ooops, I
meant .com)” as an attempt at childish humor in order to bash the
firm’s name.

What’s shocking is that this individual is actually a student of
law (at least that’s what he claims) so one would think that he
should perhaps check out the facts before proceeding with such
careless remarks.

After all, he admits severally that he “never even ordered the
ebook” so how could he truly know one way or the other if it was a
valid system - not to mention it is assumed he’s at least
reasonably intelligent since (according to him) he got into law
school, that he would be able to see for himself the firm’s
Affiliates’ ads all over Google, and therefore reason that Google
itself is perhaps the firm’s chief supporter.

But stubbornness abounds, I suppose.

Ironically Rob says that the only reason he attacks the firm is
because “it’s a no brainer that this must be a scam,” and he got
“tired of seeing all those little AdSense ads on his page that
people kept clicking on” (which by the way only stood to make him
lots of M0NEY!) — yet he accepts donations on his site as a poor,
struggling law student in need of paying for his education, and
rather than legitimately earn an income from AdSense with an
APPROVED Product.

Sadly, Rob actually censors most of his Blog so that others who wish
to post POSITIVES concerning “Get Google Ads Free!” can’t even do
so. (But what would you expect from a “wanna-be” lawyer?)

He even posts what appears to be an actual response by the firm’s
lawyer, but which is perhaps nothing more than his own posts
disguised and designed to make himself look better (as anyone can
see that the dialogue appears “manufactured” instead of genuine).

What some people will do to project themselves as “Savior to the
rest of us” and “The People’s Advocate.” How ridiculous indeed.

Despite the “crybaby” from across the pond, Rob Snot (Ooops! I must
have meant Rob Scott!) has failed miserably to put even a dent in
the firm’s sales!

Plus, traffic is on the rise shooting up from an average of 14,000
visitors daily to now well above 20,000 visitors daily (an increase
of 42% in daily traffic alone! — Keep up the good work, Rob!!)

Anyway, don’t be dissuaded in your decision to build your online
business by eliminating your Google AdWords costs, as the course
“Get Google Ads Free!” not only reveals precisely how you can do
this, but it goes 10 steps further by giving you all kinds of other
amazing strategies I can’t even begin to allude to here.

Plus, the e-Course comes with countless resources that go far beyond
the usual variety of instantly-clickable extra values!

Lastly never forget that even though quite elderly now, Dr Jon
Cohen has even set new records finishing ahead of himself by now
having:

   - Grossed over $400 Million in revenues!!
   - and SAVED over $100 Million in Google advertising costs!!
   - attained a personal wealth above $80 million

…all due to his own system!

   *NOTE: Rob Scott is broke and demands donations! (Ha!)
Talk about putting your money where your mouth is!!

So if you’d like to get in on all the action, then go grab this
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As one very famous Internet Marketer said it best:

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———————-

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