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I got a postcard from a local landscape architect firm advertising the fact that they're available for design work for landscape construction companies.

I'd kind of been kicking around the idea of feeling out some designers to see what they might offer me. So far in my new venture of branching into construction from maintenance, I've designed each project myself. These have been workable drawings but not of the quality that a trained designer could produce. Also, it takes me quite a while to churn one out too.

From what I've read in the forums, most of you do your designs in-house. Does anyone have experience with outsourcing design work? I was thinking that a "partnership" with a designer might be beneficial to both parties, as I'd give him/her design work for my customers, and he/she might reciprocate with installation work for customers that went to him/her for an initial design and are looking also for a contractor to put it in for them.