The more affordable option is to look for a Garden Designer, a Landscape Architect is a lot more expensive, but it depends on how much advice you would need and whether it is just a bit of help in one direction or a full design.
I am a landscape architect and I do some residential work, but generally large scale works, and a majority of my work is Developments, Reserves big scale parks etc, but it is all relative, just a matter of scale.
The best way to start would be write a brief of such.
What do you want exactly from the Garden Designer or LA, make it clear, that way they should be able to give you a realistc estimate rather than something that is way over the top.
I do go out to houses and just do a general consult, which means chatting to the home owner, giving them suggestions and ideas and some species that would be suitable, giving them a copy of my notes, and then leave the work as such up to them, for others it ends up being a full design, documentation, council approvals etc. But as I said it comes down to scale and what you need
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