Get Your Backyard Design-Ready Before You Hire a Landscape Designer
Groundwork helps homeowners prepare for landscape design with greater clarity, direction, and confidence.
Not sure where to start with your backyard? Groundwork helps you identify existing yard features, explore possibilities for your outdoor space, consider priorities and budget factors, and prepare for a more productive conversation with a landscape designer.
Whether you're considering a patio, garden, privacy screening, or a complete backyard transformation, Groundwork helps you take the first step before committing to a full landscape design.
Start with Groundwork: Visit Groundwork-LLC.com to explore the Groundwork Backyard Guide and available planning services.
Get Your Backyard Design-Ready
Walk Away With a Clear Plan.
Groundwork helps you understand your property's possibilities, clarify your priorities, and consider your budget before meeting with a landscape designer. Whether you start with The Backyard Guide, a personalized Design-Ready Session, or The Groundwork Plan, you'll gain the clarity and direction to take your next step with confidence.
Walk your property. Explore the possibilities. Get ready to move forward.
In this 60–90 minute on-site session, we'll walk your property together, explore your goals, and discuss what may—and may not—work in your outdoor space.
You'll receive everything included in the Virtual Design-Ready Session, with the added benefit of evaluating your property together in person.
We'll explore:
On-Site Layout Guidance: Discuss how different areas of your yard could work together and support your lifestyle.
Existing Features & Assets: Identify plants, trees, hardscaping, and other features that may be worth preserving or incorporating into your future design.
Real-Time Feedback: Explore your property's opportunities, limitations, and possibilities while we're standing in the space.
Grading, Layout & Usability Considerations: Identify practical site conditions to discuss with a landscape designer or other qualified professional.
Personalized Guidance: Ask questions, explore ideas, and make more informed decisions about your outdoor space.
Your Groundwork Brief: Organize your vision, priorities, budget considerations, and site observations into a practical summary to share with a landscape designer.
Best for: Homeowners who want knowledgeable, hands-on guidance in their own backyard before meeting with a landscape designer.
In-person sessions are limited each month to provide a personalized experience.
Groundwork helps you make the most of what you already have while preparing for what comes next.
Get clear on your backyard before you hire a landscape designer.
In this 60–90 minute working session, we'll explore your outdoor space, your goals, and your budget to help you identify what matters most and where to go next.
Using the Groundwork Field Guide, we'll work through your vision, priorities, functional zones, preliminary budget range, existing site features, visual inspiration, and decisions about what to keep, change, or reconsider.
I'll guide you through the process, stay with you as you complete the exercises, and answer your questions along the way. Together, we'll organize your ideas into a Groundwork Brief—a practical summary of your vision, priorities, budget considerations, and site information that you can share with a landscape designer when you're ready.
You'll leave with greater clarity, an organized starting point, and the confidence to move forward.
Groundwork helps you prepare for the design process—not replace it.
Your backyard vision deserves a plan.
Ready to take your ideas a step further? The Groundwork Plan builds on your Design-Ready Session, turning what you've learned about your property, priorities, and goals into a practical roadmap for moving forward.
Together, we'll organize your next steps, explore project phasing options, consider preliminary budget ranges, and identify the professionals you may need to consult along the way.
You'll receive a personalized Groundwork Plan in PDF format, designed to help you:
Clarify your project priorities and what to tackle first.
Explore how your project could unfold in manageable phases.
Understand budget considerations that may influence your decisions.
Identify the right questions to ask and professionals to contact next.
Prepare for a more productive conversation with a landscape designer.
The result? A clearer direction, a more organized approach, and greater confidence as you move toward the backyard you envision.
Groundwork helps you prepare for the design process—not replace it.
The Backyard Guide | Digital E-book
Your Backyard Vision Starts Here.
Before you hire a landscape designer, get your Groundwork.
You know you want a better backyard. Maybe you picture a beautiful garden, a place to entertain, more privacy, or simply an outdoor space that feels like yours.
But where do you start?
The Backyard Guide helps you take that first step—with more clarity, direction, and confidence before you meet with a landscape designer.
Inside, you'll begin to:
Understand your property: Recognize existing features and attributes that may be worth preserving or building around.
Explore your possibilities: Start identifying what you want your outdoor space to look and feel like.
Clarify your priorities: Organize your ideas so you can better communicate your vision.
Think about costs: Begin understanding the factors that may influence your project's budget.
Prepare for your next step: Approach a conversation with a landscape designer with a clearer idea of what matters to you.
You don't need to have all the answers. You just need a place to start.
Start with Groundwork. Move forward with confidence.
Get your digital copy of The Backyard Guide for $12 and take the first step toward an outdoor space you'll love.