Douglas Daven Garden

I feel like I am sharing a very special secret with the readers of this post: Jim & Douglas are magical! We noticed our neighbor’s absolutely stunning yard as soon as we moved into our new house last year. She referred us to Jim & Douglas and we hired them on the spot. They are an perfect team. Douglas is a true artist, amazingly talented and dedicated to his craft & Jim executes the design concept with grace and ease. Our front yard has become a neighborhood treasure. It is big and blooming and full, it looks as if it’s been a part of the house for many, many years, making the once bare/​recently remodeled house look like a mature Berkeley home which is just what we were looking for. We have a new baby and are thus home a lot these days (giving me time to write my Unilocal reviews, this is my first one!) and have noticed that almost everyone who walks by stops to admire the yard, wonderful! We have now hired the pair to work their magic on our big backyard as well, we can’t wait!

We have lived in our house for six years and until Jim and Douglas transformed out front yard we had a boring little lawn full of a lot of weeds, a little grass, and a few boring hedges. Jim and Douglas put in a beautiful flagstone patch, replaced the hedges with a variety of plants, and demonstrated a creative approach to our front yard that left us very happy with the result. They are super-​nice, easy to work with, very dependable. We highly recommend them for your landscaping dreams.