Landscaping Rates & Process

Customized Garden Consultation and/or Coaching

STEPS:

Meet to view your site and gather/share information to meet your landscaping goals — 2 options: #1 – You take notes; OR #2 – I take notes and send to you.
If you chose Option #2, you receive notes and resources to assist with your landscaping goals (see fees below).
Decide if we want to work together on your project – design, installation, maintenance, and/or garden coaching.

FEES: Minimum 1 hr. consultation/coaching session – $95/hr. - fee includes mileage and travel time. Fee due at end of session. If notetaking, research, and/or information organizing is completed by Mariposa Naturescapes, this service is $25/hr. – number of hrs. spent on this administrative work can be determined at end of consult/coaching session. Notetaking/research fee can be billed or paid at end of session.

Most Seattle-size garden consultations run 2 hours - depends upon size & complexity of garden space, project goals, and amount of resource sharing wanted. Fee can be prorated if full two hours aren't needed.

Customized Landscape Design

STEPS:

Meet to view your site and gather information about your goals and site conditions (sunlight, soil, wind, etc.).
A planting plan is created as well as a plant list.
Meet again to review items in #2.
Schedule time to begin the installation project (entire or phase in).
Estimate for materials and labor will be created, if MN is doing installation work for you.

TYPICAL DESIGN FEES: Seattle-size urban backyard OR front yard design: $750 – $1,200 while an entire yard design ranges: $1,500 – $2,500, depends upon site and goals. Pay ½ of design fee when signing Job Agreement and ½ at Design Review Meeting.

Installation and Maintenance Labor

Fees depend upon site and work to be completed.

$40/hr. – weeding, plant grooming & lite pruning, and compost tea application

$45/hr. – complex pruning, plant removal/hauling, invasive plant removal, planting/transplanting, adding soil amendments/sheet mulching, building structures, and path creation

$50/hr. – all steep slope work – invasive plant removal, planting, erosion control, and mulching

Minimum job is one gardener for 4 hrs. = $160 – $200, depending upon work to be completed.

Mileage and Materials: We charge for mileage & labor on materials that we pick up and deliver to you. We collect fees for materials when the Job Agreement is signed. There is a $1 per mile charge for miles driven beyond 20 (one-way) from West Seattle.

Call Today for Your Personalized Consultation – 206.419.1836!

Seasonal Garden Packages

Prices Good Thru March 2012

Packages may be enhanced to fit larger garden areas.

Keyhole Bed

Keyhole Bed: An Easy Way to Get Started with Edibles
Using a horseshoe-shaped raised bed with small path looks more natural, gives more space, and creates more microclimates for plants than row plantings. If Keyhole beds are oriented toward the south, they also trap more warmth for many of the center plants. Includes installation of one ~10' x 10' x 6" keyhole bed with 2 cubic yards of topsoil, 4 bags of compost, ½ cubic yard of Arborist wood chips (for path and around outside), and 5 packets of organic edible plant seeds and/or 10 edible plant starts.
Additional soil preparation, plants, and/or Keyhole Beds can be added to this package.
$368

pruning chart

Relax... We'll Do the Pruning
We understand that pruning can be confusing because it often takes education and experience. We have both and are ready to assist you with natural, kind pruning (Plant Amnesty style) of small trees, shrubs, and edible plants up to 10' tall. We'll let you know if some plants are beyond even radical renovation efforts.
$468 - 2 gardeners for full day + 1 green haul

Garden Renovation Magic

Garden Renovation Magic
It's magical to see how garden beauty and function can be drastically improved by clearing out common garden design mistakes – overplanting, shrubs/trees too close to the house and/or windows, and mismatched plantings! Make more space, have better flow, and add a few useful plant additions. Includes pruning, plant removal and/or transplant, and mulching with Arborist wood chips.
Weeding, add'l yards of wood chips, and design/new planting may be added to this package.
$598 - 2 gardeners full day + 1 green haul + delivery of wood chips

Start Your Food Forest Now

Start Your Food Forest Now
A FOOD FOREST is a multi-layered, food- and habitat-producing landscape that acts like natural woodlands. Includes 1 hr. site visit; conceptual design; procurement & delivery of site-appropriate plants: 4 dwarf fruit and/or nut trees, 8 berry shrubs, & 25 groundcover plants; planting; and mulching around plants with compost and Arborist wood chips.
Additional soil preparation, more plants, and/or Keyhole Beds can be added to this package.

$878

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