I have hired this company to service our property (which includes an ADU unit). Their work is…read morespectacular. Clean, efficient & on time. I have used them for the past two months and have referred them to multiple friends and neighbors. People stop at my house and admire how tight the landscaping is. Highly recommend this company!!

I have been working with Felix and his right crew for a few years. I recommend his services for:…read more Ongoing maintenance, New plantings, Installations and repairs and Sourcing of new plants through his access to Pacific Nurseries (wholesale). The team can build planters, install pathways etc. Felix has an easygoing manner, is reasonably priced and shows up as planned. Happy planting!

Best service, I've received. I'm simply not great with yard…read morework and have had a variety of landscapers perform clean up for my front yard. This has been the best service by far. Provided a quick and simple quote of services. Arrived on time; with support. Completed the task in a quarter of the time as other vendors. My first reaction was wow! Quality, with speed and pricing. I will be using this service again. Thank you.

I called Valentin based on these reviews and had him come by and take a look at our back yard…read more Although we had a little bit of a challenge communicating, through simple words and amid much gesticulating, I could see that he immediately grasped my vision and even improved upon it. His quote was definitely far more reasonable than any of the 3 other companies we asked to quote. My next step was to contact fellow Yelper and reviewer of Valentin and get more in depth info regarding the work habits of the crew, ability to communicate etc. (Thanks Penny!) Everything was looking positive, so I figured, "Why not?" I chose a week when I was working from home so I could check in and out of their progress. This was a good thing as there were a couple of things which required input that was much easier to do being right there. Even amid some scope creep, and more materials being required than originally thought, Valentin kept true to his quote and endeavored to deliver exactly what I wanted. We are really happy with the outcome (defined a space in the backyard with a retaining wall, laid flagstone patio, added gravel perimeter around the deck). -1 star for communication +1 star for price, effort, and standing behind the original estimate

Word of advice when you get people to do your garden. get a…read morepicture drawn or sketched and have each area that you need done signed by the landscaper. also make sure you label all work that needs to be done clearly and make sure both of you understand what is going on. for this guy, i believe the best thing you should do is follow every step above. his guys are really hard working, it's just the communication problem that would piss you off and get things messed up. my 1 star still stands. job has not been completed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- update May 24, 2008 his answer and response for the 500 dollar labor and material for chicken wire is that he has to use his time to drive to home depot to buy material. the other part is his labor. I HIGHLY DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS GUY FOR HIS COST. IF YOU WERE TO FIND ANOTHER LANDSCAPER YOUR BETTER OFF PAYING MORE WITH A GUY THAT HAD A LICENSE. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- update :May 23 dropping the rating because i feel he's lying to me. (i hate people that lies) i did a quick calculation of material and labor. i believe he's overcharging. retaining wall made by roughly 125 interlocking retaining wall stones. sprinkler system with 2 valves and a timer + new sod and grass. remove 2x 20ft small pine trees and roots and bush. trim 2 trees. cement wall that's 2 ft high. a pathway layed by stone slabs. remove excessive soil. all in all, with a package price he quoted 6k. we thought, hey 6k that sounds good since the first quote we got from someone else was 13k for relative similar work. when i did my research for the price of the interlocking retaining wall stones. i was like WOW. they run about 1.52 to 2 bucks. so assuming it's 2 bucks multiply by 125 = $250. how in the world does 2 bucks a piece going to get anywhere to the price of 6k. These labor must be crazy. the material honestly does not cost that much at all. i think he wants $50/hr for labor since his crew of 2 who works 12 hrs a day. 7 day project due for completion would cost $4200 in labor alone. this would be the only conclusion i have for the quote of 6k the reason i started to check on price was because he notified me this morning in regards to adding chicken wire for my lawn to protect for gophers. it sounded like a good idea, so i asked how much. he said it was 500 bucks. i went online, did some research, found out that 3ftx25ft chicken wire @ homedepot only cost 15.99. i only need like 5 sets which would equal to 80. even if i askd them to do 2 layers of that wire for better protection, it should be only 160. labor dos not cost anywhere near 400 bucks to do this job since all he needs to do is lay the wire while the soil is all flipped because he's doing the sprinklers. i'll talk to him tomorrow to see what's his point of view and how he would explain his quote. he told me that those chicken wire cost him 450 to purchase. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Awesome price quote. the guy was nice. it was a little difficult to communicate but we got everything clear after 2 hrs of discussion. i will update this review when the complete job is done. hopefully yelpers are correct about his job! project starts tomorrow and probably ends in 2 weeks 5stars

I had been trying to find a drainage expert for years to help figure out some issues at my house…read morewhich is on a hill. Edelmar was the first person to really understand the problems and be able to quickly devise and implement effective solutions. I've now hired Edelmar to do a variety of work: water drainage management, retaining wall replacement, wood post replacement, and landscaping. I was actually a little bit worried when I first hired him for the first job, to replace a retaining wall, because his bid was so low. But his crew did good work. There was an insane amount of manual labor involved since the previous wall had basically been overwhelmed with dirt and buried. Several truckloads of dirt had to be disposed of... You can see one of them in the photo. He also installed foundation drainage using the Miradrain product and some base rock. When they dug out the old retaining wall, it also exposed significant amount of damaged siding and waterproofing on our adjacent house. This meant that we had to replace the waterproofing and siding on an emergency basis since it would be nearly impossible to do so once they installed the rest of the new retaining wall. One of Edelmar's brothers, experienced in this area, helped us do this work right on the spot for a fee that I considered completely reasonable. This helped establish trust. I've since hired Edelmar and team for additional work.

I can't recommend Edelmar and his team highly enough. Pricing was unbeatable and they were at my…read morehouse early everyday and working until right around dinner time. Job was completed on time and he walked me through everything that was done and showed me how to work the timer that was setup for my sprinklers. I appreciated that I was able to convey what I wanted and needed and that was it. I didn't have to specify brands or go through a bunch of different samples. Edelmar was able to provide everything for the job. Again, can't recommend him enough!! One other thing to note. They cleaned everything up each night they left. They washed down the walkways and sidewalk and made sure to leave everything perfectly clean.

The team at Allegrow are top notch! We had a pretty boring backyard in San Francisco that needed to…read morecome back to life. They came out for a consultation, gave great advice on different planting ideas for style and screening, and we eventually had them back to plant several large shrubs and trees that transformed the space. They were professional, courteous, and fair throughout. Highly recommended, will work with them again!

I'm currently in the process of looking for landscapers for my backyard. I contacted Casey because…read morethere was a photo of submerged drip irrigation for lawns and he does a lot of eco friendly projects. Although we ultimately decided that he wasn't the right person for my project, I really appreciated the pointers and advice he provided me to make my decision on my project. I wish my final backyard goals aligned with Casey so that I can hire him but I'll be keeping him in mind for the future.

We decided to hire Rock and Rose (without looking them up here) because they are in our…read moreneighborhood. They came by and looked at our garden and told us it would take two visits to clean things up so they can then start regular visits. After bringing their crew in for two days (12 total hours) they were only able to finish half the job they committed to, something our previous Gardener was able to do by himself in 8 hours. Even so, all we asked was that they come back and finish the job soon before what's left gets so overgrown it will take a lot more work (and expense) to deal with. They agreed and said they would come back to see what's left and committed to finishing the job within a few days after that. They had our yard key and permission to come anytime they wanted... so we went out of town for over a week. When we got back we unfortunately saw that nothing was done, no visit to assess what was left to do, no one came to finish the job and most annoying part of all, no communication about it at all. We were totally blown-off LOL. So we cut our losses before we got deeper into the hole. And as we thought, it cost us A LOT more to bring in new Gardners to finish what Rock and Rose started. Feeling silly for not checking here first about Rock and Rose. Usually hiring someone local works best.

They are very hard to get a hold of and to respond, and when they finally do send someone out, they…read moreregularly go way past the agreed-upon time/expense. The first few times they were able to landscape my backyard easily in under the allotted 3 hours (with time left over to work on the front), but after that, they would spend 5-6 hours on the same yard (which was in the same condition as the previous times) and bill me for the extra time, and then deny we'd ever agreed upon 3 hours, even though I had it in writing over email. This happened multiple times and seemed to only be getting worse. I think what happened is that the first few times the gardeners had another appointment afterwards they had to go to, so they stuck to the allotted time and were efficient, but when they didn't have other appointments after on subsequent visits, they tried to prolong the work as much as possible for more $$. I hate writing negative reviews, but this is either major incompetence and mismanagement, or worse, unethical business practices. (I can easily document everything I said above, since many of the communications were over email.) Seems like other reviewers have also had similar issues with their bizarre communication and billing practices. I recommend staying away. This type of work is typically (and should be) much more straightforward/easy and black and white.

Guillermo and his crew did a fantastic job clearing an overgrown yard as well as pruning a tree…read more Highly recommend and will be performing maintenance moving forward.

Guillermo ghosted me after just a few months of maintenance. he became very unreliable, then…read morestopped replying to me all together.

Unreliable and unprofessional. I requested a quote through…read morehis website form (after the e-mail I sent to the address provided on his site bounced back as "undeliverable"). Steve (owner) did call me back later that day and we set up an appointment for him to come out to give a cost estimate / price quote on replacement of a fence in our backyard. He never showed up and never even called -- even though I specifically asked him to call if he was running late or needed to change to a different time -- leaving both me and my housemate waiting on time taken off of work. I called and left Steve a voicemail, but have had no response. I can't take issue with the 5-star reviews of his work, whose reviewers were clearly more lucky than me or the other 1-star reviewers here, in that he showed up. I can only say that not showing up and not following through with communication presents a level of "unprofessional" I prefer not to deal with. I also find it odd that Steve never responds to any review on here, good or bad.

Unreliable. Did not follow through. Did not show up or call. Too bad because it's hard to find…read moresomeone who does good work. But if they are unreliable then it really doesn't matter what kind of work they do.