Shrubs, Plants

[jg244888]

Posted in another section but didint get a great response I'm just wondering when you go to a customer and sell them on planting how do you go about having them choose the ones they want?

[billslawn89]

you better just do research on the plant materials in you area. or what i do sometimes is look around the neighbor hood at other homes and see what they have planted. but if you don't know the plants themselves, start learning.

[White Gardens]

I do design work for my customers, then they can see the choices they are making.

[Lucky Star Lawn Care]

It is a lot easier to come up with a design and plants you think will work best. Then sell that to the customer, every now and then a customer will say whatever you think will work best but I really would like to have one of "xx plant" . So I come up with a design and add their plant/plants in the mix. Thats what works for me

[ans.smile]

Hi, I am new in the turf laying and topsoil business. Can anybody tell me whether they have used diatomite in starting or maintaining a lawn? Diatomite keeps water and fertilizer and releases it slowly as the lawn needs it. (according to what I heard). It apparently also releases plant silica.

Did anybody use diatomite and had success with it? Please guys, let me know!

[TomberLawn]

I gave a description of the site to my local nursery owner and he gave me several plants to go show the homeowner. This worked out really well. I brought probably 8 different varieties that would do well and the homeowner chose to use about 5 of them, plus a couple additional requested plants.