| BEFORE AND AFTER As The Gardening Tutor, I offer three main gardening services: Consulting, Tutoring and Gardener. Determining which service or services best fits your project is one of the very first steps we will discuss together. Each service is described in brief below, followed with project photos. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. - Mary The Gardening Tutor offers three distinct services, below is a brief description of each. CONSULTING Although Mary's primary type of consulting is the care and maintenance of plants within your extisting garden, she is always happy to help if you are starting with a blank slate. For those few who have a blank slate, Mary will consult with you and help you to design your own garden. During this process, you may need consultation help to answer your plant questions when you nursery shop, to be sure you are buying what will thrive in your garden as well as the correct quantity. Consulting is for you when you are willing to take lots of notes, do the work yourself and want only Mary’s expertise. TUTORING You already have a garden in place. You are not taking care if it because you don’t know how but you would like to learn. You are willing to get your hands dirty and you have no idea where to start. You need motivation and would like to learn tips and techniques to make your garden beautiful year round. Working with Mary, you will soon be thinking like a seasoned gardener. Tutoring is for you when you want a hands-on experience because you learn best by doing! GARDENER You want a professional with a passion for plants to come to your garden on a regular basis to maintain and keep all your plants happy. Gardener is not for you if you’re looking for general yard maintenance such as mowing, although Mary will compliment your general monthly maintenance service if you have one. One of Mary’s specialties is custom pruning and shaping. Gardener is for you when you have a garden in place but don’t have the time to care for it yourself.
Tutoring The following are some of the steps taken with Mary Frost, The Gardening Tutor, to achieve this drought tolerant, deer resistant garden in Santa Rosa:
At the demonstration garden Mary create’s examples of design techniques to show clients. The intention is to inspire clients to personalize their own gardens, think outside the box perhaps, not necessarily to duplicate the example.
A desire to, “actually want to be outside reading the paper” inspired this client to tackle a big project. A little motivation from The Gardening Tutor along the way helped to keep up the momentum! This is phase one of a three phase project. As a talented “do-it-yourselfer”, Tim installed all of the stone elements and the pergola himself! The design consultations helped Tim understand many elements of landscape design, including the best use of scale and the most inviting size for the walking paths. Here are some of the steps taken with Mary throughout the project:
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The Gardening Tutor
Hands-on, Individualized Gardening Instruction
And Consulting
in Sonoma County
Santa Rosa, California
707.545.6863
