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Process we set up a time / date to meet at your
home (week-ends filled sorry), any time between 11:00 and 5:00 (seasonal dependent) Monday thru Friday- We
spend an hour walking, talking and focusing on area(s) of interest / concern, tape record, camcorder, notes or just listens
as I share thoughts, ideas and insight related to the list of your concerns or interests (i.e. screening
a view, planting butterfly garden, removal of aged / storm damaged plants, orientation of deck / patio, location of compost
area, pruning shrubs, water garden placement, why won't grass grow, etc. ) First hour fee is $150.00 (+$25.00 travel fee
if you live west, north or south of HWY. 270-255 in Missouri or east, north or south of HWY. 255 in Illinois) payable
at end of hour, additional time will be broken down into 15 minute segments ($25.00 per). Should you decide you would
like to have a formal to scale drawing - $150.00 site visit consultation cost will be deducted from design fee. Designs (depending
upon project size will be oresented on either 11 x 17" or 24 x 36" paper) start at $500.00. Before I start designing
I compose a design strategy letter to you based upon notes and sketches from our walk around, included in letter text
will be design cost. If
fee is agreeable I will then sit at a drafting table and formulate a formal to scale, hand drawn design, siting all aspects
of plants, new pathways, decks, etc. in order to make your yard / landscape what you envisioned and truly what will realistically
work given the setting, exposure, topography, care and maintenance time available, etc.- After receiving drawing and having a chance to review plans contact me and we will
then get together to discuss what was drawn, from this meeting if any revisions or changes are needed they will be done, I can supply a listing of qualified landscape contractors to bid on the design installation, if
you like. If you prefer to construct / install
plant material yourself, I recommend purchasing materials and plants from building supplies, nurseries / garden centers
that are open year round, they are staffed with people well versed in all ins and outs helping you avoid back sliding or making
a mistake. Speaking Engagement-e-mail or call
for specifics, cost and other related factors. Below you
will find insight into my life experiences which brought me here today, where I'm so lucky to be doing something I thoroughly enjoy. Since 1977 I've been professionally working in numerous aspects of the outdoors including;
staff horticulturalist at MO. Botanical Garden, landscape consultant / designer, author, radio show host, co-founding predatory insect store. My garden pathway has included many things including: 1969 joined Air
Force and served 4 years with Strategic Air Command, discharged from March
AFB Riverside Calif. 1973-San Diego State University, then onto UCSanta Barbara botany,
horticulture, landscape design returned to St. Louis 1977-4 years English Woodland
Garden, 1 year tropicals and exotics in Climatron, Desert, and Mediterranean House complex at which time I obtained and
still maintain Missouri State Pesticide Applicators license-Ornamental / Turf & Aquatic Environments, began teaching and
continue to do so at MBG. 1982 moved onto retail garden center general manager (became MO. state certified
nurseryman), I hired / trained staff, plant research / selection and promoted user friendly pest management. In
1986 became working partner in residential landscape consulting, planning and design,
doing local and national seminars, co-founded predatory insect store, 1990's spent 8 years on faculty member
in Horticultural Department at St. Louis Community College at Meramec, participated in programs sponsored by Powell Gardens
of Kansas City, MO. Dept. of Natural Resources, Landscape / Nurseryman’s Assoc. of Greater St. Louis, U. of IL. Extension.
I've authored garden
/ design realted articles for regional newspapers, and my designs have been featured in various publications. In 1994
KMOX radio asked me to host a new show 'Garden Hotline' and I continure to share thoughts with listeners from across
the region. 1998-grand mal epileptic seizure was
starting point for Mike Miller Designs landscape consulting / planning and publication of my first book Missouri
Gardeners Guide. 2000 wrote Missouri Gardener's Journal, 2005 revised Missouri
Gardener’s Guide, and wrote Month by Month Gardening in Missouri. 2007 I provided gardeners in Kansas
with a customized Month by Month Gardening in Kansas. Additionally I'm part of several citizen and advisory
board panel including: St. Louis’ Operation Brightside and Epilepsy Foundation of Greater St. Louis-it
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Gardening--To each and everyone that stops by-I say to you the world of life and
gardening is simply wonderfully wild and crazy |
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