Garden Coaching & Consulting

Garden Coaching and Garden Consulting may sound similar but there are some main differences:

Garden coaching is like having a personal trainer that gardens with you while teaching  you how to eventually garden on your own, this is for the true DIYer.

Garden Consulting is typically project based, providing verbal guidance, answering questions, and brainstorming solutions until the end of the project. Both Garden coaching and consulting can include plant identification, designs, and manuals for caring for your plants in the future.

Why would you want to work with a garden coach?

  • You just purchased a new home and don’t know what plants you have, how to care for them, or how to make improvements.
  • You are a do-it-yourselfer and want the satisfaction of caring for your own plants or making improvements but don’t know where to start.
  • You want to grow fruits and vegatables for yourself, friends, family, or the foodbank but don’t know how.
  • You want to add more plants to your exhisting landscape.
  • You want to make your landscape more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

 

Why would you want a garden consultation?

  • You want to make improvements to your landscape but would like some suggestions.
  • You have a quote from a landscape company for hardscapes but want professional guidance from a Horticulturalist for your plantings.
  • You have a project that you need guidence with.
  • You want help with curb appeal.
  • You have plants that seem to be diseased or to not be thriving.
  • You want to make your landscape more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Let’s work together!

Heather Johnson-Stubbs

Professional Horticulturalist

Heather has worked in the Horticulture and Agriculture industry for nearly 20 years. She has an AAS in Environmental Horticulture and a BS in Agricultural Food Systems majoring in Organic Agriculture and Food Security with a minor in Soil Science. When she is not working with homeowners creating special spaces she teaches Horticulture to High School Students in Lynden WA. She has worked in Seattle and Bellingham with various landscaping companies working with outdoor plants and interior plants. To learn more about her background go to our About Us page.

FREE 30 Minute Consultation

All Coaching and Consultation services start with a complimentary 30 minute consultation.  During this meeting we will do a walk around to take a look at your gardens and your landscape as a whole. We will discuss your goals and talk about expectations. We will end with a plan for going forward. There is no charge for this service!

Schedule

General Consultation Rates:

After the complementary 30 minute consultation it is $80 for the first hour and $35 for every hour after that. There is no travel fee charged if within a 25 mile radius of the City of Bellingham. See the menu below for project rates.

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Per session

One-on-one working garden lessons based on desired topics. Topics may be:

  • Pruning

  • What is a weed
  • How to fertilize
  • What is in my garden
  • Testing and Ammending my soil
  • How to improve
  • How to plant
  • How to mulch
  • More…

Rates are $80 for the first hour and $35/hr. after.

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Project Based

Vegetable garden lessons throughout the season.

Your Garden Coach will show up at a regularly scheduled time to work with and teach you and your family until project completion.

  • Single garden bed
  • Plant ID and annual maintenance
  • Spring/ Fall Clean-up
  • Curb Appeal
  • Problem plants
  • More…

Rates are based on project length, difficulty, and size. Option to add on a maintence plan manual.

Gardening 101 Lessons

One-on-one garden lessons throughout the season.

Your Garden Coach will show up at a regularly scheduled time to work with and teach you and your family. Utilizing our very own garden curriculum, we come with seasonally appropriate lessons – but also ready to tackel any garden-specific issues that may arise.

  • Starts at $140 a month, plus materials (rate can vary based on garden size and travel distance).

  • Discount when enrolled in auto billing.

  • Appointments are every 2 weeks, March through November, set day and time.

Vegetable Gardening Lessons

Vegetable garden lessons throughout the season.

Your Garden Coach will show up at a regularly scheduled time to work with and teach you and your family. We assist you from the very start of the growing season. The season starts with planning, moves though to planting, watering, weeding, feeding, trouble-shooting and ends with harvesting.

  • Starting at $140 a month, plus materials (rate can vary based on garden size and travel distance).

  • Discount when enrolled in auto billing.

  • Appointments are every 2 weeks, January through October, set day and time.