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The first thing that you have to understand is that the whole thing works on how much value people place in having YOU design their gardens. Then you need to find a way to affect that. Finally you need to know how to get yourself in front of more people that are predisposed to be placing a value on any landscape design rather than blindly soliciting your neighborhood.
The biggest thing of all is that you are measured against others who are looking to do the same work and there are a lot of people out there doing it. When everything else is the same, the first advantage goes to those who also have a proven ability to get the job built. But not all is going to be the same in your case because you are new to horticulture, to landscape design, to landscape construction, to project management, and to selling these services. It is going to be very hard for you to out sell any other person doing this work without significant experience in any of it. Worse yet, it only takes one person to be ahead of you for you to get shut out of a job.
I think you will get farther along more quickly if you get a few years experience working for others. Designing pretty gardens is such a small part of what it takes to make a living as a landscape designer.
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