Depending on the project, we recommend meeting with the client at the project site. This allows the client and designer to introduce themselves in the setting which the project will ultimately be developed. This meeting will also provide the landscape architect the program information to develop a fee proposal that will be provided to the client after that meeting and prior to work proceeding. This is the first step in creating the schematic/preliminary design which will incorporate all the client's needs and interest into a visual illustration developed by the landscape architect.