If you’re thinking about making sustainable changes in your yard, a consultation is a great way to get guidance and ideas for next steps from a Metro Blooms Design+Build landscape designer. We are experts in native plants, turf alternatives, pollinator habitat and clean-water projects including rain gardens, permeable pavement and runoff conveyance. See below to decide which type of consultation is best for you. All consultations are an hour long.
Consultations
Onsite consultation ($150)
All our services start with a consultation. Our designers will provide information and resources at your consultation, whether you are looking for guidance on a DIY project, or whether you would like a design plan to follow, or are interested in an installation by our team. We are happy to meet you where you are at and provide the information you need. The property must be within a half-hour drive of our office in South Minneapolis. (1 hour)
Virtual consultation via Zoom ($85)
Meet our designer online using mapping technology, your photos and online drawing tools. Best option for people planning DIY projects and don’t want to follow up with a design, or who live too far from us to have an onsite consultation. (1 hour)
Scholarship Consultations
We want our consultations to be available to everyone. If you need help paying for all or part of your consultation fee, Request a scholarship here. $10 from every full-priced consultation goes into a scholarship fund. We award scholarships based on the amount of funds in our scholarship pool.
What’s Next?
- We’d love to create a beautiful design to guide your DIY work, or a construction plan that we can install or you can have installed by others. We do not create plans while at your consultation. Find more information about our design services here.
- Our designs are an additional cost and take a little while to complete, and we will work with you to create a plan that fits your needs and your budget, all while nurturing habitat for pollinators and prioritizing resilient landscapes.
- If you decide to have us do a landscape installation, the consultation fee will be deducted from the installation cost.
- We don’t offer general lawn care services. Our consultations focus on the creation and maintenance of clean water and pollinator-friendly practices.
- We do not install bee/pollinator lawns. If you’re interested in bee/pollinator lawns, our designers can provide DIY information about installing them, but we don’t install them ourselves.
Are you interested in resilient practices that you can DIY?
Our free, self-paced, Resilient Yards Online Learning Series is for you! We also offer live virtual workshops, at a small cost. These are both offered through our Blue Thumb education program.