Grow Your Garden Design Business
A proven system that helps talented garden designers build sustainable, profitable practices through three core pillars:
✔️ Consistent business operations
✔️ Premium presentation materials that clients proudly share
✔️ Quality delivery that commands professional rates
✔️ 20 years industry experience
✔️ Built a six-figure national landscape design business in less than five years
✔️ Sought-after conference speaker on green industry business growth strategies
Learn how to find clients who value professional design, price your services profitably, and build consistent income—even in challenging markets.
Turn every client into a referral source.
Get a business plan that actually works.
This isn't generic advice. I research your specific market, analyze your competition, and create pricing strategies tailored to your area's demographics and seasonal patterns.
Build systems that impress clients.
The best designers aren't just talented - they're reliable. Learn the systems that make every client experience consistently impressive.
I’ve been in your shoes.
I'm Nora Saintz, founder of Gardenette. I turned my local Buffalo garden design business into a six-figure company with a national presence.
With twenty years of garden design experience, I know that generic business advice doesn't work for our industry. I learned this the expensive way - spending $15,000 on digital marketing strategies that completely failed.
That costly lesson taught me what actually works for garden designers. I figured out how to build a practice that works year-round and gets clients excited to refer you - and now I help other designers do the same.
FAQs
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Not at all. This works whether you're just starting out or have been designing for years as a hobby. The three pillars - professional presentation, consistent operations, and quality delivery - are actually easier to implement when you're building from the ground up rather than trying to change established habits. If you have design skills but struggle with the business side, you're exactly who this is for.
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Generic business coaches don't understand the seasonal nature of garden design, the specific challenges of selling "pieces of paper" for hundreds of dollars, or how to handle clients who want to change everything mid-project. I've lived these problems for 20 years. I know why hand-drawn designs don't generate referrals, how to manage cash flow during slow seasons, and what presentation quality actually convinces retirement-aged clients to hire you. This isn't theory - it's battle-tested solutions for garden designers specifically.
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Keep designing however you love to design. This isn't about changing your creative process - it's about how you present that creativity to clients. You can still hand-draw your initial concepts, but learn why high-resolution final presentations get shared with friends while sketches stay in drawers. Your artistic vision stays yours; we're just making sure clients see its full value.
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Every market is different - what works in Buffalo won't work exactly the same in Phoenix or Seattle. That's why I research your specific area: local demographics, seasonal patterns, competition, and pricing expectations. A custom strategy for your market is part of what you get, not generic advice applied everywhere.
