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Didn’t cover in first post but let’s talk where to purchase plants. The big wholesale nursery’s like Doug young are half the price of local places. Plus I want to buy about 60-80 sweet viburnum to plant along my property line out back. Not afraid to travel to buy in bulk. Has anyone used these type of places?

Yes - I bought all my planting material from Doug Young Nursery, Bobby Young Nursery and Holloway Young nursery in Forest Hill. 1/3 the cost of retail garden center plus 10% (sales tax as it’s a retail sale to you). As I recall Hollaway-Young nursery was more like 1/2 the cost of a retail garden center. I bought the trees I planted from Bobby Young Nursery.

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Also, tell me more about hiring a landscape architect. What’s that cost? How does that work? Could they do a master plan for my whole property? I’m a do’er, show me the finished plan and I can execute. But I’m not a landscape designer for sure.

Well in my case, and this was a decade ago, my close friend’s son, who I’ve known all of his life, is a Landscape Architect developed the landscape for me - the cost was $500 though I suspect he under-charged me. He interviewed me to see what I liked, didn’t like, etc and developed the plan which I followed - I did 100% of implementation. I can’t emphasize enough to hire a professional to develop the plan for you - you are adding value and aesthetics to your property. For the work, effort and expense, even doing it yourself, get it right the first time.

Zappas Stash, if he enters this thread is an LSU graduated Landscape architect, but works in Dallas, can provide more insight as to cost, etc. and what you could expect from that service but if I recall correctly, he stated at one point he charged perhaps $2K or so for basic residential plan in the Dallas area. But yes - they can develop a master plan for your entire property. That is what I had done. I focused on completing the front and side yards, then came back a few years later and completed the backyard, but I had the plan already in place.