PermaDesign- Santa Fe Permaculture

Stay away from this business… They will reel you in for a $ 1200 consultation/​design package for 10 hours worth of work that would take any other experienced landscape architect half the time to do. I gave them a printed list of flowers that I wanted included in my landscape design. The main reason I hired this company was to figure out where to plant the flowers on my list (flowers that butterflies like) and this fact was made very clear to this company right from the very beginning. I wasn’t asking for hardscape or 3D drawings. I simply wanted to know where to plant the flowers on the list that I had given this company.
After the walk thru of the property, I was emailed a design without any of the flowers on my list. The plan they emailed me also was inaccurate and showed plantings of trees on my property that were supposedly already growing there that weren’t even growing on my property!
At first, I thought that the company had made an honest mistake and had sent me a rough draft in error. But when I questioned the inaccuracies and the lack of flowers on the plan, PermaDesign refused to take accountability for their errors. I was told that I could pay for PermaDesign to come back out to my property if I wanted them to discuss the mistakes that they had made! I was also given a choice – I was informed that I could either pay for approximately 35 more hours of time so that they would be able to draw in the flowers on the plan or instead of paying for this company to draw in the flowers on the plan, I could personally decide myself where to plant the flowers, take some colored pencils and then draw the flowers on the plan myself. WHAT??? Total scam. And by the way, Nate, this so called landscape designer, was late coming out to my house on the morning of my appointment because he said he ran out of gas about a block away from my house. Nate was also unable to identify several different types of trees on my property…