First Client Booked & Website Progress

When we purchased our home in LaCosta several months ago, I was working full-time at Weidner’s Gardens doing production and retail. Steve had just started his new job at 24 Home Care | Disability Services. Eamon was at daycare full-time at Carlsbad Country Day School. Between the three of us (and the two dogs) we had little to no time to make our move from Tamarac to La Costa happen. To take some things off our plate we hired Michelle Meyers from Joli G. Design help us design our space and coordinate our contractors.

It was from this experience that I came up with the idea to start this business. I was so busy and in desperate need of interior design help. Michelle knows a LOT about plants, but doing plant labor is not in her wheelhouse. I was planning on doing my own plant installations but it was through our collaborative experience that I realized I could do the same process for more of Michelle’s clients, or by finding clients of my own.

After working in retail I learned that many homeowners simply want to have a concierge plant buying experience. Tell me a couple if things you like, things you don’t like, and let’s go from there. But, when you’re in the plant store things can get extremely overwhelming. I found that I spent more time conversing with clients about the specifics of every plant in the shop rather than getting to the meat of the conversation and narrowing down the clients needs and expectations.

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I’ve been working on Squarespace to put together my website. After some frustrating trial and error working back and forth between my phone, iPad and computer, I finally have a tangible draft. I am working on finishing touches and I’ve been using a designer named Nadezdha from Israel whom I found on Fiverr, a GREAT site for quick freelance work. Images should be available in the next 24 hours, so the site may be ready to go live once they’re done! Stand by!