| I bill for my time to source the plants at my normal hourly rate. ( faxing in bid sheets, tagging plants at the nursery, arranging the deliveries, sometimes doing the plant loading and deliveries myself on smaller specialized plants that don't meet the minimum del. from the nursery ect... ) I bill the client for the plants with my mark -up on the plants only. I bill the client for the time to do the plant placement on the job site. All of this comes under the heading " Plants" on my invoice. My partner Miguel , the contractor, does all the soil prep , helps me unload my truck and or the delivery trucks, assists me in schelpping the plants into their planting places, plants, stakes, fertilizes and installs the irrigation system and mulches the area. At the end of the job I give Miguel a sheet of paper that lists the quantity of the plants and their sizes. He bills the client for his planting labor time from this plant list.
Example _
20 - one gallon plants - $ 8 each = $ 160
six - five gallon plants - $ 18 each = $ 108
2 - fifteen gallon plants - $ 50 each = $ 100
1 - 24 inch box tree - $ 175. each. = $ 175. Total Planting Labor = $ 543.00 ______________________________ This price break down is explained in our contract.
So if the client wants to add more plants than what was originally designed, we have no problem with that, we simply bill the client on a per plant basis.
She knows that if she asks for 10 extra one gallon size plants to be planted she will be billed the planting rate of $ 8 dollar per plant So the client is receiving two invoices at the end of the job.
One from me for the plant sourcing time and plant placement . One from Miguel for the Demo, Grading, Soil Prep, Planting Time , Stakes and Fertilizers, Irrigation, Hardscape work , Mulch. | 
