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Old 05-11-2007, 10:18 PM
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To add to what Mark said, one other thing you may find with other clients, is if something were to be broken out by plant, for example, your landscape will suffer what other industries call "adverse selection" - everything expensive will be deleted and replaced with something cheap. So the laceleaf Japanese Maple is taken out, a Rosy Glow Barberry put in it's place.

For some clients. I'll go so far as to explain to them that not breaking it out is done to save them from themselves - if the plan doesn't meet their budget, tell me how much needs to be cut and I'll cut it in a way that best maintains the look I was trying to achieve, versus just eliminating any plant that's over $18.

But in this particular case, again, I see a big red flag waving in the wind.
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