Services
We provide landscaping services to accommodate the needs of the industry globally, playing a role in the development of landscapes in an international market.
Landscaping Services
Corporate Landscape Design
Our service and expertise in a corporate retainer capacity is directed to the landscaping industry, environmentalists, property developers and already established corporate and private landscapers.
Corporate Retainer work involves the following:
- Overseeing the development of installations and directing maintenance teams
- Provide assistance with and advice on tender documentation
- Scheduling consultations with clients and contractors to achieve standard specifications
- Negotiating with all facets of the landscaping industry
- Effectively attending to site actualities
Objectives
- Oversee installations
- Adhere to design environmental policy and standards
- Assist, guide and provide a mentoring back-up to the staff on site
- Focus on the overall design philosophy
- Outline problem areas
- Encourage a self-sustainable approach
- Provide overall horticultural, hands-on and on-site maintenance and design advice in the maturation process of the landscape
- Goal directed in achieving the required standards over a period of time
- Guide the development and continued well-being of the designated site
- Systematized approach in the turn-around of badly maintained sites
- Restoration of ecologically spoiled areas such as industrial and property development sites
- Identify visually problematic areas particularly
- Uphold an aesthetically pleasing landscape
We Have more than
25 Years Experience
Recognized
Leaders in
Green Industry
Training
Landscape Design School
The Jo-Anne Hilliar Landscape Design School has been successfully running landscape design programmes for many years both nationally and internationally. We are recognized in the Green Industry as leaders in Green Industry training.
In-House Training - Internationally
- Increasingly our clients are requesting our intensive landscape design / maintenance and management programmes to be run in-house, where we are able to provide personalised training for their staffing component. The value of these courses is in the outcome-based and practical focus. The advantages of running programmes such as these in-house, are numerous.
- Our In-House Training Programmes have come about as a result of companies finding themselves with staff who are not adequately trained to carry out work on-site in a manner that requires little or no come-back. With this in mind, we partner with the company and structure a training programme to meet their needs.
- Our school and courses offered are well-known and a high standard of work ethic is taught. Our communication standards are high and our ability as consultants to offer a training service to the Green Industry globally is very successful.
- These programmes are practical and outcome-based, ensuring that not only will the staff members' skills be improved, but also act as an overall confidence boost to the individual and the team as a whole. The programme's objective is to increase the quality and standard of work output by the individual and therefore to the company in increased productivity levels.
In-House Training Programmes
Managing Space
The focus of the green industry is to produce magnificent landscapes. The landscaping of gardens, restorative areas, environmental rehabilitation and upliftment of existing space takes into account design and vision originally envisaged, followed by layout and installation.
What follows an installation or existing landscape is the key to establishing a vision for the continued maturation success of the landscape which takes good planning, knowledge to manage efficiently and the commitment to manage effectively. This centres around a passion to do the job and to walk alongside a developing space which must appreciate in value.
Consulting input will assess:
- Existing site maintenance assessment and report
- Identifying mis- management of space assessment and report
- Promotion and explanation of self sustaining landscapes.
- Introduction to environmental landscaping procedures
- Undertaking a thorough and in depth horticultural and design audit of the site.
- Identification of particularly high visual and problematic areas.
- Guidance and leadership of on site staff direction and training in achievieng the end result.
- Ensuring that the contractor in question is adhering to the designs environmental policy and SLA’s for creating a self sustaining landscape.
- Introduction and teaching in monitoring the positive improvement of the landscape.
- Regular feedback monitoring and site meetings with client to assess progress.
- Oversee, assist, guide and provide mentoring back up to on- site contractual staff.
- Providing hands on on site educational and horticultural teaching in the upliftment of maintenance specs.
Managing space is
the make or break
in the landscaping
industry internationally
Our mentorship work
is personalised and outcome-based
On-Site Mentoring
In the past we have been involved in the mentorship of various landscape design contractors / nurseryman and through our experience this has proven to be a very beneficial and successful association. We share our expertise in the field whilst simultaneously growing and learning from the input you have to offer, thus making our mentorship work personalised and outcome-based.
Our focus includes all aspects of business – from administration, marketing, financial, labour strategies and efficient costing and quoting – vital in managing a successful business. On the consulting side, we asses the direction of your business with you, as well as what you need to achieve in terms of continued growth and opportunities available.
We help to procure new Empowerment Service Providers, and recognise the need to uplift the Green Industry to ensure a high standard of service. We will assist and guide you through the restructuring and upliftment process of your business, through to the successful completion of all areas to be improved upon.
Sound administrative and professional back-up direction
- Clear and concise reporting procedures, to provide monthly feedback
- Strong accounting administration for financial monitoring
- Friendly and competent administrative staff training
- Friendly and competent horticultural and design expertise back-up
- Landscape design installation and implementation service and expertise requirements
- Design plan proposals, followed by landscape design layout for client (if required)
- Installation of landscape designs to scale (at client request)
- Interaction with mentor's clients in these coaching skills
- All design recommendations for installation personalised to client's needs
- Detailed quotation for plan design and presentation clearly set out
- Follow up on design plan with client for any detailed personalisation
- Building a very efficient communications structure
- Report back to management teams
- Overview of maintaining slick marketing procedures
- Coaching in marketing presentation of company ethics and methodology
On-site design implementation:
- Design implementation to follow detailed design proposals
- Costing and days on site to be strictly adhered to
- Any extras to be confirmed with the client at the time of installation
- Standard and agreed upon payment procedures to be strictly adhered to
- Designer's time schedule for the design installation carefully monitored
- Presentation booklets to clients on design presentation
- Regular site meetings with client on design installation
Labour:
- All labour specifically trained in gardening skills
- All labour correctly dressed, representing the company
- Good labour policies to ensure working hours are adhered to
- Labour relations and rules of contract clearly stipulated with all labour on site
- All labour on contract specifically agreed upon, to avoid misunderstandings
Restoration of Garden Assistance and Direction
- This covers existing spaces requiring turnaround. Overgrown gardens with no design emphasis
- Understanding of plant material to be taken out of the space to either be utilised elsewhere or placed in a nursery situation
- Turn around of garden to suit the architectural features of the building
- Clear knowledge of all plant material and understanding of plants in the garden and whether they are suitable for restoration purposes
- Correct utilisation of under-storey planting and propagation of this material for areas requiring coverage at groundcover level
- Site preparation installation for poor soil conditions and knowledge of storage of plants while planning of installation takes place in a particular section of the garden