HOME
Residential Design
Portfolio
Water Quality Buffers
Planning for Drought
Links
About Kalmia
Contact Kalmia
Design Styles
Native Plants
Presentations
About Kalmia
Kirsten's Background | How Can Kalmia Landscape Design Work with You?|Cost
Kirsten Reberg-Horton is the owner/designer of Kalmia Landscape Design.
 
Kirsten's background
 
Kirsten has designed over 100 Residential Landscapes.
Completed 33 Credit hours in the Landscape Architecture Masters program at North Carolina State University.
Personal Gardening Experience: 7 Years, North Carolina. 3 and a half Years, Maine. 2 Years, California.
BA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maine Master Gardener
Contract Landscape Designer for the Penobscot County Soil and Water Conservation District for their water quality enhancement projects 2003 & 2004. 2004-2005
Contract Landscape Designer for the Hancock County Soil and Water Conservation Service for their water quality enhancement projects 2003 & 2004.
Designer of the sample raingarden plans used in Landscapes for Maine: Adding a Rain Garden to Your Landscape, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension's Bulletin #2702
Author of Landscapes for Maine: Designing Your Landscape for Maine, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Bulletin #2701
Author of the design chapter of the Maine and New Hampshire Master Gardener Handbook
Lecturer on the subjects of: landscape design, buffer design, ecological landscape design and permaculture design. To view the materials for these lectures, or to find out how to schedule a lecture, visit Kalmia Landscape Design Presentations
Kalmia Landscape Design is a design ONLY firm. We do not do installation or excavation. We are dedicated to providing you with a beautiful, professional, environmentally sensitive design that suits your style and needs. Kalmia Landscape Design is committed to excellent customer service and high quality work.
How Can Kalmia Landscape Design work with You?

Kalmia Landscape Design taylors our products and services to the specific needs of our customers.
Some customers are looking for a highly detailed, to-scale landscape design that they can follow closely in their installation process. These highly detailed, scaled drawings are well suited to individuals who are planning to hire a landscape company to complete installation, and for those who are uncomfortable with "wiggle room." All plans are accompanied by a plant list.
A to-scale plan requires careful measuring of the clients property. Those measurements are then transfered to paper to create a detailed base map that accurately represents the dimensions of the property and the location of the important landscape features. Final plans created from these base maps can be measured and used to determine widths of beds, spacing of plants, lengths of paths etc..
To-scale drawings take time to complete, and can be rendered (colored) in such a way that they become a framable product. Black and white copies can be made available to use as working documents, while many clients prefer to preserve and frame their final rendered plans.

Clients may request that additional drawings accompany a rendered plan such as perspectives and birds eye views. These additional drawings help the client to visualize what the completed landscape will look like.

Cllients may request a detailed, to-scale plan, but be uninterested in a final rendered product. It is recommended that any client interested in a to-scale plan purchase a final "inked" version of the plan (an inked version prevents smudging and loss of information that occurs when one works from a pencil drawing.)

Some clients may not feel the need for a to-scale plan. They may wish to spend more time talking and walking the property with Kirsten, request Kirsten to mark locations for future plantings, mark plants to be removed, and provide a list of suggested plant material for specific areas of the landscape. A general not-to-scale drawing may also be included.

Clients may also request that Kirsten takes them on a plant buying trip, or is present during planting. Kalmia Landscape Design is most interested in providing you with the information and help that you need to create a beautiful, satisfying environment at your home.
For 2007, Kalmia Landscape design is charging $40.00/hour for services.
   
Home |Related Links