Winter design consults booked for spring planting
The homeowner who starts dreaming about a new front bed in February books your designer that night. By May, the plan is drawn and the plants are on your order.
A caller wants help planning a garden bed, a privacy screen, a front yard or a full backyard.
Learns the yard, the sun and the budget range, books the designer, asks for photos and a survey.
Consults on the designer's calendar with the yard already described.
How it works
- Hears the project
A new perennial bed, a cedar hedge for privacy, a front yard that needs curb appeal, or the whole backyard after a pool went in.
- Learns the yard
Sun or shade and for how many hours, which way it faces, the soil if they know it, and whether deer or rabbits visit.
- Asks the budget range
As a range, so the designer draws a plan they can plant. A caller who'd rather not say is booked anyway.
- Books the consult
In the store or at the house, by your rules, with the designer whose calendar has room. Home visits are grouped by area.
- Asks for photos
A text link for photos of the yard and a copy of the property survey, attached to the consult.
- Explains the fee
Your design fee and whether it comes off the plant order, read as written.
Example call
- CustomerHi, we just had a pool put in and the backyard is all mud. Do you do landscape plans?
- AI agentWe do, and this is a great time to plan before spring. Is the yard sunny, or does it get shade?
- CustomerFull sun most of the day. It faces south.
- AI agentLovely. Is there a budget range you'd like the designer to plan around, for plants and materials?
- CustomerMaybe five to seven thousand.
- AI agentGot it. Hélène does home visits in Stittsville on Thursdays. I have February 20 at 10 or 1.
- CustomerTen.
- AI agentBooked. The consult is 150 dollars and comes off your plant order. I'll text you a link for photos and your survey.
After the call: Hélène's calendar has a home visit in Stittsville on February 20 at 10 with "new pool, south-facing, full sun, five to seven thousand". The survey and photos came in the next day.
What your team gets
- Design consults booked in the quiet months, for spring
- Yard, sun, pests and budget range noted on each consult
- Photos and surveys attached before the visit
- Home visits grouped by area on the designer's day
- A list of design leads to call when the season opens
Questions
Does it answer when we're closed for winter?
Yes. Callers hear your reopening date and can book a consult any day.
Can it give design ideas?
It gathers what the designer needs. The ideas come from your designer.
Does it do home visits or store visits?
Whichever you offer, with the areas and days you set.
Hear it on your phone
Request a demo call and the agent phones you, set up for garden centres and nurseries like yours.