Fasoldt Gardens: A Boutique Urban Landscape Contractor

      a small store selling fashionable clothes or accessories.

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       a business that serves a sophisticated or specialized clientele.

       “a small design/build boutique”

      We were invited to a restaurant opening/Halloween party that was hosted by an entrepreneur who we primarily know as the proprietor of Pavingstone, a landscaping supply company that we use extensively.  The party was lots of fun.  Not only were there people from all walks of our profession, most of us were in costume!  Nancy and I went as Fred and Wilma Flinstone.  Our friends the Menters went as Barney and Betty Rubble.  I “met” lots of our professional peers, guys who I recognize by having seen them behind the wheel of their landscaping trucks and a few designers that Nancy was familiar with by name.  In explaining the niche our business occupies to one of my new acquaintances, I described us as a boutique landscape company.  He then wanted a definition of “boutique” and how it applied to us.  The more I thought of it the more apt the word seems to define what we do.

      We build landscape projects in the city, for enthusiastic homeowners who have chosen us because they value the aesthetic that Nancy’s designs evoke.  If you are familiar with our work you know what I’m depicting.  Nancy has a distinctive portfolio of work, most good designers do.  What is had to put into words is that which distinguishes our projects.  It’s not the plants we use, it’s not the hardscapes we install or the focus on sustainability that drives our projects, it’s the summary product that distinguishes us.  Lots of landscapes in our area follow a formula; they have herbaceous shrubs, a tiered pastiche of plants that frame a property like a picture frame adorns a snapshot portrait, a serpentine crushed-gravel walkway, beauty bark in every tree ring and flower bed and an irregular island of grass.  Have I just described every landscape in your neighborhood?  We don’t adhere to that formula.

      We provide boutique services.  Is your land inaccessible to the street?  Lots of our projects have been like that, I’ve got compact machinery that I can use to access tight spots.  Is your land overrun with invasive plants like English Ivy and Himalayan Blackberries?  Other landscapers will want to douse them with diesel fuel or roundup.  We address them with aggressive cutting and sheet composting. Is your land super steep?  We’re no strangers to slopes.  Are you interested in exploring the potential of your outdoor living space?  Fasoldt Gardens, a boutique landscape contractor.

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