A yard on Datum Lane and a drawing for every garden
Datum Garden Works keeps a sheet for every garden it looks after: what is planted, what was measured, what was changed and when. A returning call starts from that sheet rather than from scratch.
The firm was set up around one working rule: nothing is planted before a reading explains why it will live there. That rule costs bookings, because it turns some same-week jobs into a site assessment visit and a wait. It is kept because the alternative is a customer paying for planting that was guessed at, and then paying again when the guess turns out to be wrong.
Gardens are drawn rather than described. A sketch of the plot with the beds, the falls and the shade marked on it survives a change of gardener in a way that a sentence in a notebook does not, and it is what makes a second visit start where the first one finished. The annotated photograph on the home page is the same habit shown at full size.
Three things the firm holds to
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The reading comes before the plant
Nothing is planted on a hunch. If a reading does not explain why the last plant failed, the next step is another reading, not another invoice.
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The figure is the figure
A published price applies to the published scope. A change in scope is quoted before it is carried out, never invoiced after.
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A decline is an answer
Work that is not worth doing is declined at the visit, with the reason. That is a shorter conversation than a bed that fails again in a season.
The four steps between an enquiry and a finished job
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Step 1
Enquiry
The contact form or the telephone. A preferred gardener can be named; availability is confirmed separately.
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Step 2
Site assessment visit
Measurements taken and written down, the problem explained in plain words, and the options set out with a figure against each.
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Step 3
Scope agreed
The written scope is accepted before any plant or material is ordered. Anything that has to come in is named at this point, not later.
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Step 4
Work and handover
The agreed work, the same measurements taken again, and a note of what was changed kept on the garden's own sheet.
What this website does
This site publishes the firm's services, prices and hours and carries a contact form. It does not confirm an appointment. The Book action sends the visitor to the firm's configured booking destination, and a date is only ever confirmed by the firm directly.
Start with a site assessment visit
Measurements first, written down and shown, with the options set out before anything is planted or lifted.