HART Horticulture, Artisan Landscape Design and Installation

Hart Horticulture is a full-service, premiere landscaping company located in beautiful Sonoma County, California. We have built thousands of different landscapes and projects, each one unique and different. With Sonoma County’s many varying micro-climates and topographies, we have enjoyed the challenges of new designs and locations. It is extraordinarily satisfying to find beautiful and functional landscaping solutions for unique properties. Contact us to discuss your landscape needs

Hart Horticulture offers a myriad of services:
Full property review and landscape consultation, this is a free service.
Landscape design and planning
Exterior home design and planning
Full installation of all landscape and exterior designs
Hart Horticulture specializes in:
Paver driveways, pathways and walkways
Full site drainage and drainage installation
Retaining wall systems
Patios, paths, and landscape stone masonry
Irrigation planing, calculations, and full installation
Fencing, decking, stairs, arbors, pergolas, and landscape and exterior structures
Horticultural planting, planning, and designing with plants
Lawns and turf, design and installation
Driveway and property ingress and egress planning
Grading and excavation
Restorative pruning, and horticultural pruning
Edible Landscapes
Sustainable food garden development
Design review and PRMD negotiations and permitting
Job site management, sub contractor management
Timeline and schedule management

Hardscapes
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The hard part of a landscape is the Hardscape, no pun intended. This part of the design and development is critical, and it will make or break a landscape. Your hardscape is like your skeleton, or the framing inside the walls of your home, if your hardscape is built well and done right, everything else on top of it will thrive and perform. Creating the foundation for a beautiful landscape to last you for years with good maintenance.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of hardscape ideas, some of them may be suited for you and maybe some of them not so much. This is why we are here to guide you through, step by step, in our homework and planning process. Here at Hart Horticulture we will give you specific homework, a serious of questions to ask yourself and your spouse which will guide you towards the right landscape for you.

Once we have had several meetings, and discussed concepts, colors, use, functionality, and design, we will be closer to our landscape plan. once we pull the trigger on the design, we get into the nuts and bolts of your landscape. What kid of drainage we are building, grading and excavation, elevations, water pressure and gallons per minute will determine how we engineer your irrigation system.

Then Hart Horticulture will draft out the “Master Plans” and from there we can price each component of your landscape and Hardscape out. Usually at this step, clients choose one of several routes they can take with the project. Occasionally folks have multiple Landscape contractors bid out a project. So at this step there would be the comparison and evaluation of the proposals.

Each and EVERY contractor is different, they have different design idea,different skills and different approaches. All of your proposals will vary greatly, make sure your proposals all offer very detailed analysis of “where the money is going”. compare materials proposed and their costs. Make sure you ask questions and make notes on the proposals for comparison. Try to compare them “Apples to apples”, rather than “apples to Kumquats.”

If at this point you love the plans and designs from Hart Horticulture, you can purchase the plans to be installed from Hart horticulture, and have them installed by your own home gardener, or other contractor, OR you can hire Hart Horticulture to install the landscape plans. IF you choose to hire Hart Horticulture, there will be no charges or fees for the landscape plans, the design, planning meetings, or other preparatory work done by Hart Horticulture to accomplish the final landscape plans.

If you choose to employ Hart Horticulture, we will draft a contract specific to the project at hand. This contract will be for the service of building the specific landscape plans. The Contract will be configured to protect and ensure you, the client get all of the proposed landscape plans built well, and on time, while also ensure Hart Horticulture receives the agreed upon contract price for the work.
From this point we put you on our schedule, we pull permits if necessary, and we get to work!!

Edible Gardens
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If you have never had a food garden before, you would be amazed at how well you can feed yourself. Edible and Sustainable garden practice is at an all time high in Sonoma County. Hart Horticulture is here to guide you in growing some goodies for you and your family.

Now we won’t lie to you and tell you it is all easy breezy Japanesey, because like anything else thats worth it, it takes proper planning and good “Bones”. By Bones we mean, proper soil, proper and adequate irrigation, a fertilization and amendment schedule, a composting system, integrated pest management, and a diligent weed puller.

The one thing we can promise you is edible gardening and creating and edible garden is FUN! You will find yourself wandering in the garden more often, peeking around looking for wonderful delicious surprises daily! You may, after building and edible garden, need supervision from a spouse or a friend while visiting local nurseries.

Another thing most people do not consider about edible gardening is it can be beautiful and ornamental. Perfect little grid rows are not required to grow beautiful vegetables. You can integrate your veggies and herbs in with your perennials.

Take some time to look at some of the different ways we have configured edible gardens in the galley of photos. Remember all of our consultations are free. Give us a call and we can evaluate your space, sunlight exposure, soil, and landscape restraints to building and creating and edible landscape.

How We Work,

NEW INSTALLATIONS, AND LARGE SCALE LANDSCAPE REMODELS

We start with a FREE, ON SITE CONSULTATION.
We will review the clients goals and desires, their dreams for the property and project.
We will review site specific conditions: sun exposure, soil conditions, flooding and erosion issues, access availability and limitations, existing vegetation, current maintenance.
We will review ingress and egress of the property, the current problems with the existing layout, and the viability of the landscape remodel.
We will discuss and review a budget, short term goals, long term goals, and begin to develop a working plan.
You will go through the “HOMEWORK” with me. (A questionnaire for any homeowner and or property owner is located at the bottom of this page, it is a helpful tool for us to develop your “perfect” plan. Please take a minute or and hour to fill it out.)

From here we will layout a rough draft landscape plan.
We will look through images and materials under discussion.
We will possibly take a video or a car tour of other finished landscapes, view different plants and plantings, hardscape materials, such as pavers, driveways and retaining wall systems.
We will work through your “HOMEWORK”, so that Hart Horticulture can taylor your project just to you, and for you.
We will create a rough budget for review, and refining.
We will make the determination wether or not PERMITS are required.


3. Finalization
We will create for you the type of landscape and property plans you desire
Rough sketches from which to work with, to scale workable drawings which will satisfy all sub contractors, or full scale permit-able blue prints
We will review contract and payment options, and we will finish and choose our budget.
We will choose a start date and get to work.


THE LANDSCAPE PLANNING, DESIGNS, AND BUDGETING SERVICES FROM HART HORTICULTURE ARE
COMPLETELY FREE

IF YOU CHOOSE TO EMPLOY ANOTHER COMPANY, OR TO DO IT YOURSELF,
A NOMINAL DESIGN FEE WILL BE CHARGED.

MAINTENANCE, SPECIAL PRUNING, HORTICULTURAL RESTORATION, CONSULTATIONS, SMALL PROJECTS, SITE AND SUBCONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT, DESIGN ONLY, AND GUIDING THE “DO IT YOURSELFERS”

We start with a FREE onsite consultation
From here we determine what needs to be accomplished
We work together to come up with a feasible and affordable plan.

HOMEWORK

When thinking about a new landscape or a landscape remodel, there are some very important questions to ask yourself. Please use this guide and questionnaire to get started.


What are your overall landscape and property goals
How will the property be used; commercial, residential, special event?


Commercial Properties, Vacation Rentals and Businesses
What is the purpose of the commercial property?
How will the commercial property be used?
What types of service’s and products do you offer?
What type of clientele and guests are your trying to draw in?
What kind of outdoor use will the property serve?
Are you trying to draw in traffic from the street?
Are there any ingress and egress issues?
Are there any parking or access issues?
Will there be nighttime use, or evening use?
Are there any electrical issues or lighting concerns?
Are there any drainage issues or problems on the site?
What is the soil composition, are there any soil problems?
Is there available water for irrigation?
Are there any current vegetation problems?
Is there adequate access for labor and construction?
What types of landscapes appeal to you? (please take pictures or bookmark designs you like)
What is your budget?
Are you looking for a return on your landscape investment; revenue from rentals, revenue from special events, revenue from produce and vegetable sales?
Are there any outstanding permit issues?
Are there any governing covenants?
Will the project need to be permitted?
Is there a budget for landscape and grounds maintenance?
What level of maintenance is desired?
Are there any issues or problems which need to be addressed?

Residential Properties, Home Produce Production, Permanent Rentals

How is the property used, lived in, and used?
Where do you drink your coffee?
What window, and what do you look at when doing the dishes?
How much time do you spend outside?
Do you like to garden?
Do you have any areas of the landscape or garden which are special to you?
Do you have a dream or a design you have wished for?
Do you want to produce your own food, or a portion of your own food?
Do you have any ingress or egress problems or issues?
Do you have any parking or access problems?
Do you get along with your neighbors?
Is there a structure or view you would like to hide or obscure?
Is there a view, space or structure you would like to highlight?
Do you have pets, or pet containment issues?
Do you have fencing issues or need new fencing?
How do all the occupants use the house and property?
Are there any soil problems?
What is the soil composition?
What is the properties sun light exposure?
Are there any drainage or flooding issues?
Are there any pest problems?
Are there any easements or access grants on the property?
Are there any electrical issues or lighting concerns?
Is there available water for irrigation?
Do you entertain? Do you want too?
Are there any current vegetation problems?
What have been your past landscape successes and failures?
Is there a budget for maintenance?
If you could have the landscape of your wildest dreams, what would it be?
Are you going to repaint your home in the future, or has it been recently painted?
Have you considered different landscape designs in relationship to your homes colors and architectural design?
Start looking around at landscapes and their components, take pictures, and make notes, what to you love, what do you not love? Start dreaming!
We get it done!