3rd
Speech to Networking Toastmasters, 4/8/2013
Before
this speech is over, you will want me to teach your landscape maintenance
workers, audit other properties, renovate your landscape, or coach you in
gardening.
The
best advertising for a brick-and-mortar business is a good-looking
property. Your business will look more prosperous successful, and
competent if it is nestled in lovely, well-kept landscaping. A beautiful shrub border, full of pretty
plants, does not invite litter, and is looked at because it is worth looking
at. Beautiful, orderly properties
discourage disorderly conduct like litter, because the owners obviously
care. You are also more likely to notice
litter as out of place and pick it up, to maintain that beauty.
The mind loves beauty, ignored mediocrity,
and hates ugliness. The untrained
eye avoids ugliness and seeks out beauty as a matter of course. The trained eye of this professional
landscape gardener and any good maintenance worker seeks out ugliness in order
to eliminate it, and we criticize where we don’t work.
Ugliness brings your business either no
notice, or criticism. Neither is good
advertising. Indeed, other
advertising may bring customers to your door, but if your property is badly
kept, they may turn right around and go someplace they see competence on display.
Like every other employee, your landscape
maintenance contractor needs regular feedback from someone who truly cares
about how well he does his work and takes a good look at it. It’s better yet if that one knows it can be
done better and cheaper and can tell him how.
If you are in any business other than
professional gardening, you probably are not the one who can do that. You have a business to run, and you are not
up on the latest natural low-maintenance techniques. Your landscape maintenance person probably
isn’t either. The Landscape Supervisor,
Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener, is at your service.
If you care about order and beauty and how
much you are spending not achieving it, you need someone walking your landscape
monthly and reporting to you, one who knows landscape maintenance better than
the mow-and-blow guys.
I can walk your property monthly, write you a report on
its problems and their solutions, and go over it with your maintenance person
as well if you wish. I can also suggest improvements that will
gradually bring your landscape to real beauty.
As the Landscape Auditor, I
can give you peace of mind, and solutions. I can walk any property, with permission if
fenced or posted against trespassing, and give you a report on its fire hazard,
signs of camping, and weeds both noxious and nuisance, and suggest abatement
alternatives.
For instance, puncture vine, also known as
goat head, and tack vine, infests many vacant and commercial properties around
this town. Star thistle, another
noxious weed, is rampant on vacant lots.
I know what these and other weeds look like dead or alive, how they
spread, and how to get rid of them most efficiently.
If you are a Realtor, you can offer this service to your
buyers for their peace of mind, and to your sellers to make their properties
more marketable. A certificate of good landscape health can give both buyer
and seller peace of mind; a bad report along with recommendations to fix the
problems can be useful to both.
Who want an ugly yard? Not even the people who have one. I can supervise your home gardener, renovate
your property, or coach you in gardening your own property.
To supervise your home gardener, I can
visit monthly and look over your yard, giving advice and answering questions. I can do the same with your gardener, and
give you and your gardener a written report.
I can do landscape renovation, wherein you
have day laborers work under my direction.
Renovation will thereby be done far more quickly than I could do it by
myself, and I will get to train the maximum number of new, independent natural
gardeners in my art.
I can coach you to garden more beautifully,
naturally, and easily. I teach my
“natural line of motion” design, which creates long, beautiful curves and easy
movement through the landscape, as well as teaching easy garden building and
maintenance.
Ask and you shall receive one free audit of
the property of your choice, complete with a written report, which I will
then go over with you.
Gardening
is easy, if you do it naturally. With my
help, you can retrain the maintenance people you already have working for you,
including yourself, and have a property that is orderly, beautiful, healthy,
and naturally low-maintenance.
Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener 541-955-9040 rycke@gardener.com
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