The account managers provide her with details about the property so that she can choose the best landscape improvement in that specific location. She designs feature areas for many of the landscapes that we work on, and she also gets involved with operations, creating maps that show where our crews must mow every week and when. This gives the workers direction and a time frame, and it also gives the client a schedule of when the we will be doing what.
Landscaper designers must be very careful with measurements of certain parts of the property in order for the design to be proportionate. Therefore, it is important to ask for them before the design is started.
Once she is ready to start a design, a lot of Photoshop renderings are used to help the client see her vision, and then help our crews to create it. I thought it would be okay to only take pictures of the place and that’s it. But I found out, it is not what it seems like. When doing these types of designs, Helena must be very careful to make everything perfect, EVEN THE BACKGROUND. I saw Helena today taking pictures of the back of the property that we were working on. At first, I thought to myself, “Oh, maybe she just likes the view”. We were on a beach property anyway, but then I asked her why she was photographing behind the property. She then explained that when editing these kinds of designs, you really have to look on what’s on the back. If you want to take something out, you can’t just leave a hole in the picture, right?
I learned a lot shadowing Helena. She gave me valuable insight of what it is to be a Landscape designer and all the steps that lead into being one. Since I did not study Landscape Design, there was so much I didn’t know about this topic. It was very interesting having the opportunity to see it on a first-hand basis.
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