Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
I wouldn't count on your husband's co-worker UNLESS you are willing to be a client (and pay him). We do have to make a living and we always get requests for free design work.

My advice would be to keep it simple if you decide to do it on your own. Choose a limited palette of plants that work well together and for your site (water, sun/shade, etc.) You may want to take the sustainable angle--low water needs, wildlife habitat, non-invasive plants, year-round interest. Or you may not.


Do you live in College Station? If so, perhaps you could hire a landscape architecture student from A&M for design work. Please be sure to pay them, though!
Double edge sword with the co-worker is he is also a close friend. He wants to do it as a friend (offered when DH told him we were doing it), I want to pay him. But really he takes on too much as it is and has real paying clients outside his day job. Plus there is the satisfaction of it being your own creation.

We definitely are going the drought loving route. My husband works at a nursery so the plants will actually be pretty cheap, it is just deciding what works!

Unfortunately, we are not in Aggieland anymore. I knew tons of students who did design through college to pad their portfolios and dirt cheap.