Homeowners on patios, drainage, irrigation, planting and seasonal care, each review shown complete with the service it refers to. No star average is published; the words say more.
01
Marisol spent the best part of two hours measuring our sloping back yard, marking where the downspouts emptied and where the afternoon sun actually fell. The consultation fee was stated before she arrived, and the scaled plan that followed showed the patio, a French drain and new beds with an itemised figure against each, so we could build the first phase this spring and leave the planting for autumn.
02
Our old sprinkler system ran one zone for everything, so the lawn was soaked and the new shrubs still dried out. Priya split it into rotors for the grass and drip under the beds, and set a controller that skips a cycle when rain is forecast. The written figure matched the invoice, and the shrubs came through a dry July without wilting.
03
The spring visit covered every bed on the written scope: weeds pulled at the root, a clean spade edge along the lawn and fresh hardwood mulch. Priya pruned the hydrangeas by hand instead of shearing them, and explained why they had stopped flowering. Nothing was added without asking first.
04
Water sat against our foundation after every storm and the basement smelled damp. Elliot shot the grades with a laser and showed us the ground falling towards the house, then buried the downspouts to pop-up emitters and laid a French drain along the side yard. The lawn was re-seeded where the trench ran, and the basement has stayed dry through two heavy rains since.
05
Our flagstone path had sunk and rocked underfoot, and the patio beside it held a puddle for days. Elliot's crew dug both out, compacted a new crushed-stone base in layers and laid bluestone with two shallow steps down to the lawn. The estimate separated excavation, base and stone, so the final bill held no surprises.
06
We wanted privacy from the road without building a fence. Marisol drew a mixed screen of native evergreens and flowering shrubs, and Priya planted it into beds dug deep with compost because our clay had defeated every earlier attempt. We were given a written watering schedule for the first summer, and the screen is filling in well.
Grades, soil and sun measured in your own yard, then a scaled plan and an itemised figure before a single stone is laid.
An email when the pruning window opens or a mulch round is worth a reminder. No fixed schedule, and one link in every message removes an address from the list.