I get a little upset when people belittle the landscape industry as a no brain type of business. I think it is truly one of the most demanding in knowledge and skill regarding contracting. To be a good landscaper you must know and understand plants, understand the hydraulics of how a irrigation system works and be able to install them correctly, be able to build decks, fences and pergolas, install and understand low voltage for lighting and irrigation clocks, construct masonry walls and patios, construct and build retaining walls of all types, install simple to elaborate paver patios, know how to build a good drainage system that works, and be able to build all those in scale and balance.
A landscaper must be physically fit, it is very hard work. They must be able to deliver their product efficiently in sleet, hail, some snow and most assuredly mud. They have to be good sales people, have a complete knowledge of how their business runs, be a accountant, word processor, problem solver, personnel resource expert, secretary and chief cook and bottle washer.
A great landscaper must love what they do as with all professions. I love what I do and really just want potential clients to recognize that we are far more than laborers.
A great landscaper does create an beautifully sculpted form of outside heaven.
We are the only industry that daily creates true living art.
We are also the “True Green Industry”, the others have just coined our true title.
Next time you see a landscaper smile at them and wish them well. They are working intelligently and hard to make your world a little nicer.
Woody’s Custom Landscaping, Inc. Serving the Vancouver Portland area with qualified and certified service for over twenty years.
