- Learning objectives
- Estimate age of garden
- Identify plants, soil type, irrigation, and client needs
- Estimate overall health of garden and individual plants
- Identify problems: pests, pruning, watering, soils, mulch, etc.
- Troubleshoot problems
- Create a cost analysis of work plan
- Promote your certification and talk with clients
- Know how we will promote the certificate
- Know what to charge and what to expect
- Homework review
- Compare pruning techniques throughout your calendar
- Discussion: Garden assessment
- Discussion: The checklist
- In-class exercises: Garden maintenance plan | The CNPLC and you
- Discussion: Client needs
- Discussion: Action plan
- Discussion: Troubleshooting
- Discussion: Cost analysis of work plan
- Discussion: Best practices
- Discussion: Signs of success
- Discussion: Communicating expectations to owner
- Discussion: Opportunities for fee-based work
- Key figures, graphs, and concepts
- See Lesson 8 handouts: Client Landscape Evaluation Form
