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Nashville Landscape Designers - Ten Tips On How to Choose The Right One

Nashville landscape designers aren't hard to come by, but finding a reputable company that stands behind their product might be a little bit trickier.

As your guide to gardening advice in the Mid South, we want to share with you some tips on finding the right designer for your home projects. Whether you are considering a rose garden, vegetable patch, patio, walkways, pool, retaining walls, steps, or arbors.

As you are assessing your landscaping needs, at some point you may want to consider hiring a landscape designer to help in the process.

Below are some tips that will help you decide which Nashville landscape designers may be right for you as well as our top pick.

Ten Tips To Choosing Nashville Landscape Designers

  • Ask neighbors and friends who have great looking yards who they recommend.
  • Check in your local phone book and call four or five landscapers listed and ask for some addresses of landscapes they have done. Go look at the landscapes they have installed. Continue doing this until you have found at least three professionals who do high-quality work and ask them to bid on your project.
  • If you prefer, do the same process described above, but instead, do anonline search.
  • If your designer works for a landscape contracting company, be sure the company is licensed by the state they work in.
  • Be sure the consultant is experienced in the type and size of residential or commercial design you need.
  • Get references of past jobs and ask the customer questions like "Did they hold to the budget?," "Did they meet deadlines?" "Were they dependable?"
  • Interview potential designers, in person if possible, and see how you interact with them. Do you get along? Do they "get" what you're saying?
  • Be sure they have insurance and bonding.
  • Are there costs in obtaining a proposal for services?
  • Describe your job and see if they are even interested in giving you a proposal.

The money spent to consult a landscape designer, especially when it comes to problem areas like difficult grading, sliding hillsides, or high walls and decks, is usually saved many times over when you achieve the landscape of your dreams. One your family and friends can relax and enjoy for a long time.


If you are looking for a landscape designer in the Nashville, area, we highly recommend Lois Mancuso at Greathouse Landscape, Inc

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Lois is one of the best Nashville landscape designers. She even had her own HGTV show before making the smart move to the Middle Tennessee area to be closer to her family.

Combining the design skills of Lois and 25 plus years experience of Greathouse in the Nashville area is a win-win situation for everyone.

Greathouse is used to doing big jobs like The Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Gateway Medical Center in Clarksville, Nashville Public Square, The Avenues in Murfreesboro, the green roof at the Franklin Police Headquarters, as well as both the Icon and the Encore Condominiums in downtown Nashville. Of course they do smaller residential jobs as well.

The reputation of their design/build for both commercial and residential is outstanding and they are very excited to have Lois on board with them.

No job is too big or too small.

Contact Lois in the form below today!

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