This is a revelation to me- I've been a garden coach for years, and didn't even know it!  As an Advanced Master Gardener, friends and family have always sought my help in learning about their gardens, advising them on what to plant and how to care for it, and asked me to design a garden that they can care for themselves.

What the Heck is a Gardening coach?

"Just like personal trainers who help clients achieve flatter abs or higher stamina, garden coaches work with people to pump up their landscapes."

For an hourly fee, "...garden coaches show clients how to plant, prune, divide and conquer their yards.

They may not hold hands -- those are busy with rakes and shovels -- but they can offer encouragement and support, especially to people frustrated by the barrage of impossibly perfect gardens they see in magazines and on HGTV."  (Detroit Free Press August 3, 2007- read the whole article here.)

"A new addition to the landscape, gardening coaches — or gardening mentors as they are sometimes called — are the personal trainers of the prune-and-plant set.

Their target audience — do-it-yourselfers in search of enlightenment — occupies a middle ground between the people who simply sit back and watch, while others do the planting and mulching, and amateur plant killers whose gardening strategy can best be summed up as trowel and error."  (from an article by Joanne Kaufman  published: June 15, 2007 New York Times  Read the whole article: here.)