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I need more help here. I just got an email from the lawyer, that included this:
For a flat fee of $1500, my friend (a landscape architect at a major company) will prepare a detailed landscaping plan. The plan for the front of the house will implement what you and I have agreed upon. He'll be doing some repairs over the next year to my back porch and has a crew that can help with bigger clean-up jobs. I'll try to help on clean up as well to save money and I've already started. He's willing to work with you as I told him I need a gardener to maintain what gets put in. He requested you send me a schematic showing your plan for the front and the specific plants you envision. I'll get Randy to use that plan for the front and then perhaps we can put them in charge of creating a master plan that you and I will implement for the side and back of the house. Everyone envisions the same thing. Formal beds in the front, but no rocks for borders or mulch. More informal English country garden in the back. He likes the pergola idea by the apple tree.
I have a plan, for the front, side, and rear yards. Certainly not what a LA would draw up, but workable for me. We are removing a lot of overgrown evergreen, which he was going to have them do, but now I feel like I'm losing control of the project.
I'd rather not be relegated to the position of "maintenance gardener", I was really looking forward to having this property in my portfolio, and if the other company takes over, it isn't really mine to show.
On the other hand, are there benefits to working with them? Bound to be, depending on the working relationship I can establish, but I won't know that til I'm stuck with it.
Not sure how to answer this guy?
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