Aaron and the team are absolute legends. I've been working with them on my back yard for about a…read moreyear now off and on on projects big and small. He's always quick to respond, enthusiastic about the projects, and takes a real pride in his work and making sure things are done in a way that will last. We did a complete backyard overhaul and transformed it from a bare mud pit to a backyard oasis that we now love spending time in now: new sod on half the hard, paver patio and crushed granite on the other half, limestone retaining wall and mulch bed on the back wall, drainage, and irrigation through out. We had an old and non functioning irrigation system that we inherited from the previous owners and rather than just ripping it up and charging us for a new one, Aaron spent hours servicing and getting it to work, and then customized it to work with the new yard layout. We also had some freak of nature downpour of rain pretty soon after the big project was complete, which washed away some of the granite and caused the patio to settle with some dips. Aaron came back and fixed it all and added in additional drainage to keep it from happening again. Aaron is my guy forever now - extremely fair on pricing, honest, full of integrity, thorough, and just an all around nice guy. You won't be disappointed if you choose to work with him.

Aaron and his team completed beautiful work for our condo building with a mix of hardy native…read moreplants and beautiful rock hardscapes, providing a reasonable price across our many bids. The photos show how much the selected plants grew in just one season between spring and winter, while still retaining a beautiful look in the colder months without full blooms. The team also fixed our irrigation system and provided additional drainage with a French drain. The team was on schedule and super communicative. After the job completed, Aaron has always been incredibly willing to share advice for landscaping situations that we've encountered since the original installation. His knowledge is very deep and always leads to the expected outcome. I recommend Austin Yard Barber without hesitation.

We have been with Emerald for over two years and unfortunately have found that there service and…read moreperformance is not what we expected. Product is not addressing the lawn needs as weeds are still growing after multiple spraying and applying pre-emergent. Missing appointments and it very difficult to even get in touch with someone not to mention ability to see what services have been provided over past months. Not sure what the issues are, but unless they can get them resolved myself and my neighbors are going to have to look for another company. Emerald had a good name don't ruin it!

Emerald recently started treating my lawn with fertilizer and ant and slug poison. My yard looks…read morebetter than it has in two years! They communicate well and are unobtrusive during my workday, since I work from home.

This is one of those times where I am almost hesitant to share a 5 star review because I want to…read morekeep Antonio all for myself. I found him from some glowing reviews on Next Door and I think his phone is ringing off the hook. For good reason. He is that good. Fast response/communication, very fair prices, and exceptional quality work. He transformed my front yard, cleaned up all my trees and weeds, and removed a fallen tree off my roof. I will continue to call him for everything I need yard-wise. So if you steal him from me, I'm coming for you!

We needed our bushes pruned and a few trees trimmed. Antonio was prompt and polite. We were…read moreimpressed with his skills and attention to detail. They worked fast and did an above excellent job in cleaning up. Would highly recommend

I contracted Jorge for an over $4000 job and had MANY issues with Jorge. Beware!…read more Prior to contracting Jorge, I was very unfortunate to miss the following preparation steps: 1. ENJOY THE WORST POSSIBLE RESULTS Check the pictures of the final results of the contractor's sodding work. Make sure you want the same. When Jorge did the sodding in February the sod looked dead (cause most likely it was). Jorge assured me it is "hibernated" and will recover shortly. Obviously, it never happened and, two months later, most of the grass is just as dead as it was at the moment of sodding (see the pics). It's remarkable that Jorge calls it a good work! 2. PREPARE TO GET DAMAGED AND WORK INCOMPLETE He was resodding my front yard. He didn't finish his job, left garbage and damaged the front yard appearance of my neighbor's property so I got a reasonable complaint from the neighbor demanding me to fix it. Quoting my neighbor: "The landscape crew that re-sodded your front yard left a strip of plowed up soil/mud between your property and mine. It looks terrible, for both properties." On my request to finish the job and fix the damage, Jorge stated that he "miscalculated" the costs and now wouldn't fix the damage without extra payment of $400. (See the snapshot) Unfortunataly, I have already paid Jorge in full by that time since he pressed me a lot asking to be considerate and enable him to pay his people. GET READY TO BE PRESSED FOR FULL PRE-PAYMENT Further, he ignored my messages and only agreed to do it after multiple calls and messages and after I promised to remove a negative review. 3. GET READY TO SEE UNEXPLAINED CHARGES ON THE ESTIMATE Jorge added items on the estimate that were just meant to increase the bill without discussion and explanation. Thus, I got $300 "Overhead" added to the estimate (see the picture). He "clarified" it was added because my project was bigger than usual. Note, he didn't provide any discount because the project was big. On the opposite he tried to charge me more! 4. PREPARE TO GET THINGS SUDDENLY BROKEN AND TO BE CHARGED TO FIX THEM I had an incident when my irrigation very unexpectaedly got pipes broken in 3 different places and 3 sprinklers suddently got broken ONE WEEK (!) following the irrigation fix by Jorge. Since the rest of the landscaping project depended on the irrigation I was forced to get it repaired immediately. The circumstances in which the above got broken were very strange and unlikely. 5. PREPARE TO BE CHARGE EXCEEDINGLY IF THE CONTRACTOR IDENTIFIES YOU BADLY NEED THE PROJECT DONE To fix the broken irrigation pipes (that unexpectedly got broken one week after being fixed by Jorge) he orignally tried to charge me $450 per pipe. So, $1350 to repair 3 small plastic pipes (see pic.). 6. GET READY TO THE ESTIMAES TO GET INCREASED ~X3 TIMES BECAUSE OF "MISTAKES" In my understanding, Jorge is trying to take advantage of the situation to bill you to the max and his quote are also rapidly increasing. So, for example, in the above incident, he first quoted me $450. Then, he notified me of a "quoting mistake" demanding $1350 probably taking advantage that I wasn't present fisically on the spot and that the project was urgent. 7. GET READY TO NEGOTIATE OR BE OVERCHARGED and paying ~3 times more. Now, when I told him I wasn't able to pay this much he retracted back to $550. 8. TAX EVASION Jorge apparently tried to avade taxation on his income. Thus he is urging you to pay him in cash or in personal checks. Since Jorge demanded it, I paid him in personal checks and he never provided a receipt. 9. PREPARE FOR COMPLAINTS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORS Jorge left garbage on the neighbors lawn and the bricks uncollected (see the pictures). (I can also provide snapshots of messages from my contractor). Jorge only agreed to collect the garbage after multiple calls and messages and lots of time spent on my part. Even then, his original proposal was to leave the garbage sacks uncollected for over a week on neighbors lawn

I was lucky enough to find this company off an app called Angis. I filled out a form online and…read morereceived a prompt response from Jorge. He was very professional on the phone and scheduled a time to discuss what my husband wanted him to do. We got exactly what we asked for with a very quick turnaround time. I highly recommend them for any of your landscaping needs!

We hired Crazy Aaron to rip out a very large area of primrose jasmine bushes that had been growing…read moreunmaintained for years prior to when we moved in. It was actually quite a large job duke to the sheer volume of bushes which took up about 900 square feet of land on the hill between our house and the street. To us, it was a bit of an eyesore because it had grown so out of hand. To even trim/maintain it, our regular lawn service company said it would cost at least a couple hundred dollars because of the sheer size of it all. Finally, we decided to just go through with doing it right and clearing out the majority of the bushes to reclaim a very large chunk of our side yard. Aaron was one of three people that we got bids from. His bid landed in the middle to do all the the bush removal and dirt/sod replacement, but I liked that he was also a licensed irrigator so I didn't have to worry about coordinating this work with separate sprinkler company for the new watering zone that would be required for the newly laid sod. Prior to laying the sod, he double-checked with us to make sure we were happy with the line of bushes that remained so that we'd be confident in the finished product. He also fixed a leak that we'd had in one of our old sprinkler zones and did a check of the sprinkler system to make sure it was in total working order. The job was completed within a week after I hired him, and I've got to say, it looks better than I envisioned it. Our neighbors have also told us how impressed they were with the work. The best part is we've got our so much more usable yard now, and we can actually see the bottom of the trunks of the oak trees that had been growing in the middle of those bushes. All in all, I have no complaints and am extremely happy we went with Crazy Aaron to do this job.

Crazy Aaron's was hired by my property manager to mow a little spot of grass. He sent a 2 man crew…read morefor the job. When they arrived, apparently one of them had to pee. We have 2 porta potties on the property, but instead of asking for a key he decided to just go behind a container. We are a restaurant so to have someone pee in the yard is completely disgusting and unacceptable. We are on a very busy intersection with a house behind the container. I called him, left a voice mail. I Sent him an email. He has never replied to either. I will never use him. And I will tell all my friends not to as well.

I paid $250 for a licensed engineer to come check out my property and discuss how I can address the…read moredrainage issues myself. A competitor quoted $150 but didn't seem like the person they'd send was an engineer, and they couldn't come out for about another month, whereas Innovative Water scheduled me for a few days later. Chris described what I should do (and why), answered all my questions clearly, and invited me to email any followup questions if I had any. I had one, and he replied right away. I had some ideas of what to do before Chris came out, but his suggestions took it to the next level. My project will definitely be much better because of his advice.

Well the rainwater system runs fairly well. I save a lot of water however there are still a lot of…read morelingering issues. The gutters installed are not level so during heavy rains it overflows. The pipes that connect my two tanks were rigid so when the tanks were full and bowed the connector split resulting in flooding my basement. There is one section of the roof that doesn't have any gutters so when it's cold the water drips on my heat pumps and freezes into a block of ice. The tank overflow outlet empties into the middle of my backyard so I can't put any landscaping below it or it will get washed away. I've tried to address these issues with them but they referred me to the gutter installer and said there's nothing they can do with the outlet location.

We had a pool put in this spring. My yard and my neighbors yard were disaster areas. I saw their…read morereviews, gave them a call and Aaron completely got what I was going for. He offered suggestions and ideas as well. I just wanted simple, low maintenance with rocks, and just enough grass for my dog. Their quote (with a large amount of rocks) was better than a quote with just grass and their sprinkler redo price was almost $1000 cheaper. They also completed the work while it was raining and had leftover grass that they laid in my neighbors yard (aside from the area we fixed bc the pool company destroyed their grass and sprinklers) at no extra charge. My grass never looked terribly patchy, so they must have high standards of what trash will lay and how they lay it. I highly recommend them.

I don't write very many reviews but there was no way that I was going miss out doing this one…read more Jared and Nick were fantastic. Jared working with me on budget and the scheduling of all the work that needed to get done. Nick was the person that I worked with directly during the whole process. Nick was always prompt as well as very honest when talking through all my options. I used CountryScapes for a new irrigation system, masonry, and landscaping. Roberto did an absolute phenomenal job in the masonry work which was I was most concerned with. My wife was concerned with everything matching the house colors and it did perfectly! They were even able to use the leftover house brick from when our house was built!! They put all new mulch and planted new plants in our front flowerbed which looks great. I also asked them to install new Zoysa sod in front yard due to the challenges that we've had with shade from our big bnb oak trees. The sod looks amazing and have recieved tons of compliments from friends and neighbors. Thank you to CountryScapes for all the stellar work and I will definitely be referring people their way!

Jon and crew know exactly what needs done on every trip. Landscape always in perfect shape.read more

Steer Clear of this company! Descent service but overpriced for descent. My biggest problem was…read moretheir horrible customer service. I called on three separate occasions and told them I was stopping service when my house sold - 6 weeks, 4 weeks, and 2 weeks prior to end of service. They serviced my house anyway after I moved out and are charging me over $300 dollars saying I hadn't properly notified them. Bad communication problems within their company and shoddy business practices. This is the only bill I have refused to pay in my life and they turned it over to collections. Dinged my credit score and I still will not be paying them. I serious regret all of the business I gave them over the years (and paid like clock work)

I also listen to Sheryl McLaughlin's Sunday morning radio show and I knew that I wanted to work…read morewith Kevin Wood Landscapes. There have been drainage issues in both the front and back yards, and Michael and Bernie were very thoughtful about their proposed solutions. All of the hardscape is done, and the trees are planted. After the bluebonnets have finished blooming, we can do the rest of the project. Michael has introduced me to plants I hadn't thought of using before and I'm very excited for the next steps. The crew of workers is also great. They make sure the dogs have time to go in the back yard, and they make sure the gates are closed. It's clear this company cares about communication and customer service, which are very high priority to me.

Not sure why Yelp thinks I'm in California but whatever. On to the issue at hand! We had been…read moreplanning some changes to our patio layout, enhancing some drainage, and updating some large flower beds. We appreciated Bernie's thoughtful suggestions and his patience as we changed our minds a number of times before the design was "complete". Michael and his team were amazing and efficient when it came to executing on the design. The results are fantastic and the quality is exceptional.