Client Check List Letter
Completing your Client Check List will be a pleasurable and relaxing job. This will help you organise your thoughts and the people that are going to use the garden, putting wishes and desires in priority order.
Please think very carefully what your garden is to be used for? Would you like it to reflect your personal style? How do you see it being used in three years time? How much time do you have available for maintaining a garden? Finally what budget do you have to spend? It can be constructed in several stages. A fully planted and constructed professionally designed garden is comparable to having a new kitchen, bathroom or bedroom fitted. A designed garden with professional building and mature plants will cost between 5,000 euros (£5,000) and 50,000 euros (£50,000) upwards.
Small front garden that needs to be low maintenance
Back garden that could be used for entertaining
Garden that needs to be drought tolerant
Roof terrace that needs shade and colour
Hotel that needs a calm and peaceful space for its guests
Garden that could produce fresh, organic produce for the kitchen
Garden that needs a play area for children
Nursing Home that needs a place of enjoyment for disabled persons
Working farm that needs an area for sitting out and relaxing
Please read the appropriate Client Check List adding your comments on why each one is important to you and your needs. Include any preferred location, should this be relevant. Choose a number from one to ten. Adding up the scores at the end.
Priority is given to how Essential? Then how Useful? Thirdly what is Desirable?
Do remember it is your garden, your personality, your budget, so depending on the actual limitations and geography of the site virtually anything goes! Please sign both copies of the appropriate Client Check List and mail to me with this letter completed, together with your name and address and measurements as specified. Your photographs can be sent on a CD by mail or emailed. I will send you a receipt for your 50% deposit as soon as it is in my bank and then schedule in a work date. Your time is appreciated completing this; it helps me create a beautiful garden that you will grow to love more and more over the years. Should you have any other questions or would like to speak to any of my previous clients do telephone. I look forward to working for you.
Best regards
Catherine Nightingale
Nightingale Garden Design
07797 838622 or 07849 457401 www.nightingalegardendesign.com
Please circle your choices
Budget? Can be constructed in several stages – a good reason to have a blueprint. (Good quality top soil is quite expensive in Spain)
5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 25,000, 35,000, 50,000, 100,000
Euros or Sterling
Style of garden
Formal, Informal, Water Garden, Moorish, Modern, Minimalist, Traditional, Cottage,
Drought Tolerant, Other …
Please complete the following:-
Gardens visited?
Favourite gardens?
When and where do you go on holidays, and how often?
How many hours per week can you spend maintaining your garden?
Which Plant Nurseries have you visited?
What are your favourite plants?
Any plants or colours disliked
Please tick boxes for favourite colours
white yellow orange red maroon mauve pink blue green
Anything else you would like to add, other requests and comments?
Attach photos, magazine articles, pieces of tile and any information relevant to your personality for example style and colours of your lounge, places visited that influence your taste.
Nightingale Garden Design
07797 838622 or 07849 457401 www.nightingalegardendesign.com