Daniel Ballard is the owner/operator/horticulturalist for the firm, Convivial Gardens. Convivial is a landscape services firm offering consultation, design, install, and horticultural services, emphasizing organics, specialty pruning, edibles, wildlife habitat, natural playscapes, etc. Convivial also specializes in landscape/garden coaching in which staff work one-on-one with clients (beginner and
advanced) to teach them how to create and care for their green spaces. Landscape/garden coaching provides an educational evaluation of a client's landscape and garden with the client present: light requirements, microclimates, soils, water, etc. Garden coaching staff do a visual/physical inspection of the soil for air, moisture, pH, mineral and organic content. Usually, garden coaches help a client to assess what are the reasonable expectations for growing that he or she may have for their landscape/garden. Also, the garden coaching provides guidance on landscape problem areas and different maintenance issues, i.e. The result is a strategy for the client to move ahead in his or her landscape. Moving ahead usually results in the client doing all the gardening, Convivial doing all the gardening, the client and Convivial doing some together, or a combination.
