Client Questionnaire - Finding Inspiration
These questions are designed to help you understand what kind of landscape will be most satisfying for you. Wonder-Flora will use this information to help you create an environment that will bring you happiness!
Discovering the Environments that Speak to Us
If you have a connection to a landscape or natural place listed below, rate it with from one to three stars, with three stars indicating the strongest positive feeling. Do not mark choices you feel neutral about, but do make notes on what you want to avoid. Don’t be concerned with how to create that landscape in your space, implementing elements of design comes later.
How do these environments affect you?
Rocky mountainside with precious plants tucked in niches of gravel.
Cool and shady conifer forest with mossy mounds sprouting mushrooms.
Deciduous woodland carpeted with spring bulbs.
The summer shade of a deep green, spreading tree.
Bare branches silhouetted against the winter sky.
A thicket of berried shrubs sheltering songbirds.
Golden and flaming fall color swirling in the autumn wind.
Water trickling and gurgling through a creek bed.
A still lake reflecting the sky.
Midsummer meadow alive with buzzing insects and gleaming flowers.
A field of grain waving in the wind.
The restless sea throwing waves against the shore.
Describe the garden of your dreams:
Reflecting on the Natural World
You may use this exercise to discover what green spaces you value the most:
Find a quiet time and space where you will not be interrupted and sit comfortably with a blank paper and pencil in front of you. With your eyes closed, take time to relax and breathe deeply without force. As your mind becomes quieter, invite yourself to imagine or remember a place in nature or a garden where you feel most at home.
Allow this visualization to be your full experience of this moment. How does your body feel in this place? What sensations are you experiencing? What do you smell, hear and see? When you are complete, open your eyes and record your experience.
You may repeat this exercise as needed to get the information you need to plan the garden of your dreams.
What Do You Like?
Some aspects of design tend to be universal; as humans we often react in predictable ways to perception of balance, harmony and contrast through the elements of shape, form, color and pattern. Yet our likes and dislikes are as highly personal in garden design as any other art form. We know what we like when we see it (or experience it). Discovering what we value is the first step in designing a space to fully meet our needs.
What flower and leaf colors do you like and dislike? (Color preferences are very individual – there are no wrong answers!)
Is the mood you are after quiet and subdued, a peaceful retreat?
Do you want space for people to gather and socialize, share a meal?
Any other settings or moods you want to create?
(Distinct areas of the landscape can fulfill each function.)
Do you like a lush, flowing garden with a “natural” feel?
Do you prefer a more tidy or symmetrical landscape?
What style of garden do you desire?
How many hours per month would you like to devote to working in the garden?
Do you like to do maintenance with hand tools?
What power tools do you use?
If you plan to hire help for maintenance, and what is your budget?
Consider your total budget for your landscape project.
How do you want to allocate your budget, and over what time frame?
Expenses may include design, plants, hardscape materials: fences and gates, arbors and trellises, raised beds, paths, patios, rocks or retaining walls for your plan.
Wonder-Flora Landscape Design honors your wishes in creating your dream garden. We will work hard to find creative solutions within your budget!
Take a look at https://www.pinterest.com/wonderflora and start your own pinterest board of the styles and features that interest you.
Explore the website for inspiration and information.
Discovering the Environments that Speak to Us
If you have a connection to a landscape or natural place listed below, rate it with from one to three stars, with three stars indicating the strongest positive feeling. Do not mark choices you feel neutral about, but do make notes on what you want to avoid. Don’t be concerned with how to create that landscape in your space, implementing elements of design comes later.
How do these environments affect you?
Rocky mountainside with precious plants tucked in niches of gravel.
Cool and shady conifer forest with mossy mounds sprouting mushrooms.
Deciduous woodland carpeted with spring bulbs.
The summer shade of a deep green, spreading tree.
Bare branches silhouetted against the winter sky.
A thicket of berried shrubs sheltering songbirds.
Golden and flaming fall color swirling in the autumn wind.
Water trickling and gurgling through a creek bed.
A still lake reflecting the sky.
Midsummer meadow alive with buzzing insects and gleaming flowers.
A field of grain waving in the wind.
The restless sea throwing waves against the shore.
Describe the garden of your dreams:
Reflecting on the Natural World
You may use this exercise to discover what green spaces you value the most:
Find a quiet time and space where you will not be interrupted and sit comfortably with a blank paper and pencil in front of you. With your eyes closed, take time to relax and breathe deeply without force. As your mind becomes quieter, invite yourself to imagine or remember a place in nature or a garden where you feel most at home.
Allow this visualization to be your full experience of this moment. How does your body feel in this place? What sensations are you experiencing? What do you smell, hear and see? When you are complete, open your eyes and record your experience.
You may repeat this exercise as needed to get the information you need to plan the garden of your dreams.
What Do You Like?
Some aspects of design tend to be universal; as humans we often react in predictable ways to perception of balance, harmony and contrast through the elements of shape, form, color and pattern. Yet our likes and dislikes are as highly personal in garden design as any other art form. We know what we like when we see it (or experience it). Discovering what we value is the first step in designing a space to fully meet our needs.
What flower and leaf colors do you like and dislike? (Color preferences are very individual – there are no wrong answers!)
Is the mood you are after quiet and subdued, a peaceful retreat?
Do you want space for people to gather and socialize, share a meal?
Any other settings or moods you want to create?
(Distinct areas of the landscape can fulfill each function.)
Do you like a lush, flowing garden with a “natural” feel?
Do you prefer a more tidy or symmetrical landscape?
What style of garden do you desire?
How many hours per month would you like to devote to working in the garden?
Do you like to do maintenance with hand tools?
What power tools do you use?
If you plan to hire help for maintenance, and what is your budget?
Consider your total budget for your landscape project.
How do you want to allocate your budget, and over what time frame?
Expenses may include design, plants, hardscape materials: fences and gates, arbors and trellises, raised beds, paths, patios, rocks or retaining walls for your plan.
Wonder-Flora Landscape Design honors your wishes in creating your dream garden. We will work hard to find creative solutions within your budget!
Take a look at https://www.pinterest.com/wonderflora and start your own pinterest board of the styles and features that interest you.
Explore the website for inspiration and information.