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In this business of plant maintenance service, you maintain businesses' or institutions' plants and keep them looking healthy. You may also be called on to be a plant "doctor"—that is, reviving sickly plants. Recent studies have shown that green plants help filter out air pollutants, including toxic chemicals produced by cigarette smoke. Plants also give banks, restaurants, or offices a welcoming and comforting appeal. Plants can be a major investment. For this reason alone, plant care professionals are needed by establishments to keep their plants alive and looking healthy. You have to get all kinds of knowledge and information regarding the plantation and maintenance of the plants with healthful growth by devising useful tips.
Start-Up Costs And Financing Sources * $500-$ 1,700. * Personal savings, small business loan, loan from family or friends, lines of credit on your credit cards. Pricing Guidelines Plant maintenance: $1.25-$ 1.50 per plant, but charges are determined by the number and size of the plants and can be bid separately with each client. Time at each location can range from 10 to 30 minutes or more. Plant "doctoring": $1.50 per plant. Marketing And Advertising Methods And Tips * Send direct mail and place calls to business offices, restaurants, banks, and other institutions. * Place classified ads in local newspapers and magazines. * Post flyers on community bulletin boards. * Buy ads on local cable television or radio stations. * Encourage word-of-mouth referrals. Essential Equipment There are some essential gears including small ladders, watering devices, soil, pruners, scissors, fertilizer, filing and billing systems (manual or computerized), business phone and answering machine or service, maintenance contracts. Recommended Training, Experience, Or Needed Skills * Work in a commercial greenhouse specializing in house plants. * Enroll in horticultural courses at local vo-tech schools or agricultural colleges. * Study your own plant reference books or the many available in public libraries. * Volunteer to take care of friends' house plants.
Income Potential
$7,000-$50,000. Type Of Business Out-of-the-home Best Customers There are following customers including institutions, banks, museums, hospitals, restaurants, offices, persons with higher incomes that have little time to care for plants. Helpful Tips * Offer free replacement guarantees if plants die but insist that only you care for the plants. * Keep up-to-date on the latest plant care techniques. Additional Business Ideas * Rent or lease plants that you have grown yourself or purchased from wholesalers. Charge $1.50-$2.00 a plant for rental. Charge $55 to $800 a month to lease plants to office buildings and institutions. * Work with caterers, event planners, and convention centers to set up seasonal display or displays for special occasions. Significance Of Plant Maintenance Service Plant maintenance service is offered by the professional gardeners, gardening maintenance services with the special offers of weeding, planting, pruning and soft landscapes. Horticultural maintenance service may devise a plant list or design the local conditions and selection of the right plants for your specific appearance. Plant maintenance service offers the advices about the garden related matters, pest controlling tips and diseases diagnosis and soil beatification and testing etc. The service providers of horticultural maintenance are responsible of the cleanup, plantation and maintenance of the plants. The well-qualified horticulturalist pays attention upon all the aspects of horticulture, pest controls and disease identification, soil nutrition and fertilization and soil problems, corrosion etc. plant maintenance service is very beneficial for the organizers and clients simultaneously by throwing lights on every aspect of the plantation, growth of plants and specific plant maintenance techniques.
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