Workshop – From Stumped to Pumped: Great Garden Results GUARANTEED

Do you have any idea just how valuable high quality landscaping is?

Yes, home values are tanking but that doesn’t mean that your home’s value has to drop as deeply as everyone else’s.

Even if you’re not planning to sell in the near future — the Money Magazine article found that landscaping can bring a recovery value of 100 to 200 per cent at selling time. Kitchen remodeling brings a 75 to 125 per cent recovery rate, bathroom remodeling a 20 to 120 per cent recovery rate, and addition of a swimming pool a 20 to 50 per cent recovery rate. What better reason to invest in your property now and enjoy the benefits of an enhanced outdoor lifestyle?

Even more reason to invest in a well-designed landscape — a study published in the Journal of Environmental Horticulture found that poor landscape design can decrease property values by up to 10 per cent. Plantings too close to a house can reduce the appraisal value. The most common mistakes made by do-it-yourself landscapers are planting trees and shrubbery too close to each other and too close to houses, fences and other structures.

Want a garden that you spend less time, money, resources, and effort maintaining and more time enjoying to the fullest?

There are many things that DIY folks can do for themselves, but there comes a point when you run into the limits of your time, money, and skills. What you don’t know that you don’t know can cost you dearly in dollars and cents, not to mention personal frustration. You might be inadvertently destroying equity in your house out of ignorance rather than building equity.

How much money do you spend on plants that don’t thrive and how many times have you had to replace them? How much money have you spent on fixing your own mistakes? How much more frustration and even failure are you willing to endure on a tight budget while still not getting the garden and landscape results you want?

Do you want to know the next positive, concrete steps to take towards a successful and beautiful eco-friendly garden/landscape? Do you want help that is tailored just for you, your garden site, and your budget? Let us help you take your garden or landscape to the next level with greater success as you begin to work with nature instead of inadvertently against it. As the benefits unfold over time, you’ll discover that going “green” actually saves and generates money. Urban/Suburban Ecoliteracy is the foundation for working smarter, not harder. Now it’s time to integrate the material in a meaningful way. Knowledge is good, but the application of that knowledge is where the proverbial rubber hits the road.

We are pleased to offer From Stumped to Pumped: Great Garden Results Guaranteed. This follow up workshop, like the site analysis practicums and the Right Plants in the Right Places workshop builds on the practical real world material covered in the introductory Urban/Suburban Ecoliteracy workshop, which must be taken as a prerequisite to From Stumped to Pumped.

This workshop is geared for homeowners and anyone else who is ready to green their garden space as sustainably as possible. It’s great if you have a yard, but From Stumped to Pumped’s content will still apply whether you want a container, balcony, or even a rooftop garden.

NOTE: This workshop is not geared for landscape and gardening professionals. A separate sustainability workshop will be offered to those in the industry.

To offer the best service and maximum value to those to sign up, we have to limit the number of enrollees. We are serious about giving your garden/landscape project its due attention.

In the From Stumped to Pumped workshop, we will be teaching you the framework of sound earth-friendly design to ensure your success in your garden or landscape and providing you with a step-by-step map on how to achieve the results you want. As you may recall from the Urban/Suburban Ecoliteracy workshop, good ecological design is difficult to make obvious because good design is invisible by its nature.

Each project brought by participants will be a living, dynamic case study. By the workshop’s end, you will have an action plan in hand and specifications to start to turn your project from idea to reality. More importantly, you will have a fundamental grasp of “how” and “why” that is specifically relevant to your success.


How This Works

You won’t want miss a thing because you’ll be receiving:

Because Steve and I are confident in and stand by the use of ecological design principles, we offer what no other garden and landscape industry professionals currently dare to offer: we guarantee your garden success as long as you follow our recommendations, design strategy, specifications, and instructions in good faith as a DIY-er. You will avoid problems that would cost you (more) time, money, effort, and frustration.

Is this workshop for me?

To help you make a sound decision about whether this workshop will offer you enough value, we want to share an inside detail with you. Between the site visit, the workshop, and follow-up help, it would cost you $2,300 and up if Steve and I were charging for just a one-on-one consultation alone, depending on the size of your prospective garden or landscape. You will benefit from and have access to our collective expertise and perspectives. Since no one is as smart as all of us put together, you will also benefit from unexpected help and suggestions from fellow workshop participants.


Important registration information:

If you have further questions, please call Wendy @ 310.329.5719 or send an e-mail to fruitstonuts@yahoo.com. Steve can be reached @ 818.302.9699 or steve@gogreennsd.com.

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