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Hiring a is a very important decision.  Landscaping in Sarasota is quite the challenge, being that we are in an extremely  harsh environment, very hot summers, and the Winters bringing temperatures below freezing, before you spend your hard earned money, please educate yourself and do follow ups on the contractors that you have gotten proposals from.  Installing a well designed landscape with the proper irrigation system that will sustain the landscape in times of drought will keep you from waisting alot of time and energy.  A landscape installation in Venice Golf and Country Club that was recently done, cost 25,000.00 dollars, everything looked fantastic after installation, however there was some critical mistakes made.

The property had full shade in the front yard, the landscape designer installed shade tolerant plants such as Cat palms, Bromeliads, Song of India and one of my favorite ground covers kangaroo Fern.  All this was well placed and looked great, however the Sarasota landscape designer chose Empire Zoysia for the turf.  Now that it has been two years the grass is in decline, Empire Zoysia will not take full shade, Empire Zoysia in Sarasota needs the minimum of three hrs. of sunlight per day.  so after spending a huge chunck of change our clients are left with having to replace the front yard.  this designer had to of known it,that  the Empire Zoysia was not going to work in the shade and if he did not know, he should have.  This one mistake is going to cost $1,500.00 dollars to replace, so before some really nice looking and very talented Salesman gives you a proposal for installing landscape in Sarasota make sure to check references and take time to google every plant, tree and type of turf they are proposing.  Make sure that placement of plants are going to survive and thrive in the environment they are being placed in.  Alot of contractors will tell you and sell you anything, its up to the buyer to research all the plants, trees, and turf that will be installed and the best way to so that is research on the enternet, or look around your area and see what does best.  and the very best way is to call State Of The Art Landscaping at 941-809-8735 we warranty all work and stand behind our designs and installs for the life of the maintenance that we provide.