Considerations you should know when choosing a professional landscape contractor:
1. Acclimatization - Quality interior plants should be shade grown and conditioned to low light levels of those settings. Plants are cleaned, treated for pests and pruned before delivery to the customer.
2. Transportation - Special care is taken with each plant from the nursery. Plants are either boxed or sleeved to ensure against injury.
3. Plant Selection - Careful plant selection is essential to saving the client money. The interiorscape specialists will work with interior designers, architects, landscape architects to help with the design process. Understanding the design, light levels and environmental conditions by the interiorscaper, can provide a successful outcome to the client's job.
4. Installation - All installations are done by our staff. Careful handling of the plant, the right growing media, placing plants in the container and then placing the finished product in the right place, is part of the professional service.
5. Maintenance - For proper care of the plant, a service agreement should be obtained with your interior lanscape contractor. Watering, fertilizing, cleaning and replacement when necessary, are included in that service.
6. Containers - The container is as important as the plant itself for a complete and successful design. There is a wide variety from which the client may choose. For example, ceramic, plastic, fiberglass, metal, clay and natural fiber are just to name a few.
7. Light levels - Light is the most important limiting factor in interior plant health. The right plant must be chosen for the right light that is measured in footcandles.
8. Level of Professionalism - The interiorscape contractor should adhere to the highest level of business ethics. Education and training are a big part of being well equipped for the job. Additionally, a business should contribute to the related landscape industry by participating in organizational memberships and be active in community affairs. Various tradeshows and continuous education seminars are available for the contractor to attend. A client might want to see what organizations of which the chosen landscape professional is involved. A professional should have credentials and be ready to use referrals of satisfied customers.
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