I was talking with a major local grower who was chuffed to get the local uni, doing landscape architecture, out to see what plants were being grown, what they grew like and what they even looked like outside of a book or the internet.
It was the first time in his 40 year career that he'd even had any landscpae architecture students make the effort to see the real world. Normally the grower spends their days trying to substitute plants for the designers. What is the client paying for???? Designers/landscpae architects specify plants that are not available, or are poor choices for the location.