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Aditya G.

We hired Mathew to redo our front yard last year, when it was just a collection of english ivy and 40 year old juniper. Mathew was always responsive, worked with my wife and I to incorporate our design ideas, and came through within the time and budget that he promised and the results were way beyond our expectations. Mathew told us that the yard would looks its best several years after planting when all the plants grew in; so far its only been a year and it looks amazing. We get compliments on a weekly basis from complete strangers. Best of all, its all native plants, and Mathew and his team still come by on a monthly basis to maintain it, adjust the water settings and make sure everything is looking tip top.

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Rosana F.

A year after Matt redid our garden, we're sill getting compliments on it -- and the neighbors are trying keeping up. ;-) The process of working with Matt was great. I showed him photos of gardens I liked, and we talked about what we wanted. Based on that, he created a wonderful garden oasis that took advantage of the neighboring trees and used plants that blended well with those. Even our aesthetic tree pruner friend, who's very critical of gardens, was so impressed that she recommends Matt to all her clients now. Under his continued maintenance, the garden is growing in beautifully. I'm so glad we found Matt and Farallon Gardens!

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Joe D.

We're writing to share the amazing experience we've had with Farallon Gardens! We hired Mathew approximately one year ago to do a couple landscaping projects for our home in the Berkeley Hills. The projects involved replacing several areas of old, overgrown plants with grasses and succulents to give those areas a clean, fresh appearance. When we engaged Mathew for these projects, he came up with an excellent vision and a cohesive plan for re-designing our landscape. As he shared his vision with us, he was also careful to listen to our ideas and aesthetics and fold them into the overall plan. We live on a quiet street in the hills where many people bike or walk. We are always receiving compliments about our yard from people walking by when we happen to be outside enjoying our yard. We have several more projects planned for other parts of our property and are looking forward to having Mathew redesign those areas. If you are looking for an outstanding, artistic landscape design, we most enthusiastically recommend Mathew and Farallon Gardens for your project!

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Thank you Richard ! We feel fortunate to have great clients like you.

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Hey Jim, Thank you for the very thoughtful review.

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Thank you for taking the time to review our services Katy!

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Mathew did a modern minimalist cactus/succulent redesign of our front landscaping. Great vision. Affordable, professional. Very happy.

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So glad to have found Lauchlan to help out with ambitious tree trimming services! He came out with…read morereasonable estimates, used his expert eye to cut back branches to open up spaces and left areas very tidy. His communication is prompt, professional and friendly. He's helped out twice and been very responsive. Highly recommend Lauchlan's work and appreciate him extending his service zone to the weekend to do work in busy SF!

We needed help cleaning up our front yard and making it low-maintenance while still looking nice,…read moreand Lauchlan & his team were fantastic from start to finish. He came out to assess the space and gave us a straightforward, transparent quote that was very reasonable. As we considered what to do, he recommended great options that worked for our goals and budget. Once we decided, he scheduled the work and even sent helpful reminders leading up to the day. On the day of the project, Lauchlan was extremely communicative, providing updates throughout. He even went above and beyond, adding extra landscaping fabric he had on hand to our median strip at no cost and removing a dead bush root without charging us. They also cleaned up some weeds that were growing in the cracks of the driveway and helped soften a pre-existing slope in our yard. The whole process was quick, friendly, and stress-free, and our front yard has never looked better. Highly recommend Lauchlan if you want someone who's skilled, communicative, and genuinely cares about their work!

Fiddlehead Gardens

Fiddlehead Gardens

(30 reviews)

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Fiddlehead Gardens did excellent work. I needed a gardener and met Racheal Perry while she was…read moreworking in the garden at a friend's house in SF. She was doing a great job there so I asked her to come and give me an estimate at my house close by. She got in touch with me a few days later to set up an appointment. I hate to do gardening work and had gotten very lazy and needed a lot of help. I have a backyard deck with two very large planter boxes full of dying and out-of-control plant growth. I also have two planter boxes lining my driveway that needed a new irrigation system and a lot of clearing out done as well. Racheal arrived at the initial appointment on time. She is very pleasant and has a lot of experience and knowledge. She obviously loves what she does. I received a fairly priced written estimate by mail within a week. And Racheal came up with a smart way to do the irrigation system in the front of my house that solved a big watering headache. I was very pleased. A couple of weeks later Racheal and Cate came to my house and did a fantastic job. They were on time, hard working, polite and fun to talk to and did all the work as expected (which took a full 8 hours). There was a lot to do and afterwords my deck/yard and front planter boxes looked great. They hauled away a big truck full of plant debris - good riddance! I am very much looking forward to entertaining and hanging out on the deck during the summer. And knowing that Fiddlehead will be doing monthly maintenance, I know my deck will be in good shape. I am also looking forward to seeing the new plants grow. Thanks Racheal and Cate!

I can't say enough good things about Racheal and Fiddlehead Gardens. She took our modest-sized…read morefront planter beds (and our modest budget) and crafted a plan that turned them from an eyesore into a tidy and easily maintained space. She was also the only one (!) of the landscape architects or gardeners I called who assured me that she herself planned to work onsite throughout the entire job, supervising her staff and attending the fine pruning of our unruly apple tree personally. Her attention to detail also deserves a mention: the irrigation system she designed is a marvel, with miniature sprayers positioned perfectly for the various plantings. She even took it upon herself to tidy up our overgrown agapanthus, despite it technically not being part of the work order. A five-star experience from beginning to end.

Garden Mamas - Tamara Qirreh, Owner, tree hugger and plant lover.   Bringing people outdoors to enjoy their own personal oasis, one plant at a time.

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(15 reviews)

We hired Garden Mamas to maintain our mature hillside garden. While we thought it a bit strange…read morethat we had a different crew out most every time, we were assured by Tamara that she had communicated what needed to be done - she was managing the crew. This method seemed to work mostly, although we had to tell the crew each visit what to do, as mostly instructions had been partially communicated. One day, she sent two new people. We told them to trim two bushes on the stairwell and to pick up the leaves, nothing else. This was also communicated to Tamara a few days prior, but like most times, the crew seemed clueless as to what to do. When they were done and had left, we discovered that they had BUTCHERED our garden - most of five++ years of growth was cut away and in a most unappealing fashion. Her crew ripped out plants that a previous crew had installed only a month prior, had trimmed four bushes that were covering an unsightly wall into lollipop shapes, completely exposing the wall, trimmed new growth off of once per season budding plants without any care for shape or aesthetics, butchered slow growing manzanita plants that may never recover, etc etc etc. We were appalled and contacted her. Tamara responded to our concerns, but would not or could not take personal or financial responsibility for making us whole. She told us that the crew she sent was inexperienced and had never worked on a personal, mature garden (only on storage facilities and office complexes), and that she did not have the $$ to replace the plants destroyed or to pay for someone else to replace the plants (as we told her that we could not work with her anymore). We thought about going to the CSLB so that we could at least recover her bond, but did the time/money calculus and finally settled on her paying for two plants to be replaced, at another landscaper's wholesale cost (approx $500). So far, it has cost us over $10000 to get the garden back to where it was, and it will take a few years for it to look as good as it did prior to November 2025. We tried to support this independent, woman-owned business; but her model of a different crew every time coupled with an inability to run her business in a fiscally responsible manner makes it impossible for us to recommend her to ANYONE

I hired Garden Mamas to do our landscaping at the recommendation of one of my friends. Tamara was…read moregreat to work with - very communicative and worked within our budget. The project was completed within the time she estimated. Invoicing/payment process was clear and easy. I provided photos of the types of plants I liked (from other people's yards) and they provided a list of recommendations with descriptions and pricing as well as placement suggestions. I appreciated Tamara checking in on me a a few times after they planted to see how things were going and reminding me to turn off the water during the rainy season. It's seven months later and I am still enjoying admiring and tending to my plants as they grow.

Farallon Gardens - landscaping - Updated May 2026

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