Very often a landscaper will have a general idea of what he or she wants to do for their client, but they don't worry about the details until they visit the nursery they buy their plants from. Most landscapers buy virtually all of their plants from one or two nurseries. As such, they base their designs around the plants that their favorite nurseries have in stock. Since landscape contractors typically do not directly charge their customers for the time it takes them to buy the plants they are planting, they don't waste a lot of time searching for the perfect plant. The result is often a design that looks like it was made with a cookie-cutter, very undistinguishable from the neighbors.
Deer are just about everywhere.
As the human population has moved into wooded areas, problems with the native deer eating your garden are becoming more and more prevalent. You can get deer resistance built into your garden with little or no extra cost in either the garden design or in the plants. See the Article in the Winter 2000 New York Botanical Garden's Garden News. First, My Deer Garden specializes in deer resistant garden design. As such, we can develop a garden design that is highly deer resistant and beautiful.