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Message: [QUOTE="marlingardener, post: 91325, member: 1535"] I volunteered at a local community college that had hired a nurseryman/landscaper to put in flower beds and be their horticultural expert. He was great at design, but had never maintained a bed in his life! The beds were over-planted; there was no idea of how large or wide a plant would get (they had only been seen in gallon pots); and it was a constant fight to keep plants from taking over pathways and growing up and blocking windows. If you hire a landscaper, make sure he/she has a garden and maintains it. There is no substitute for actual, hands in the dirt experience. [/QUOTE]