Landscape by Design

Wow, not really a surprise! I had this company landscape our backyard, build an arbor, lay flagstone, sod, and put in 210 plants, in 2004. They churned up the yard, and completely annihilated my underground drainage system, but did not fix it. I found out after all was done. Now, I am repainting the arbor, and found they did not prime the bare wood before painting, just put an extra thick coat of paint on, runs and all! As for the work that was done, that was pretty good, at the time. I agree with the lack of communication, and never returning calls, shortly after completion, or ever! Glad their license is now revoked, and should not be reinstated, for the public’s protection!

They worked without a license. Took our money, and never completed our yard. What’s worst? They left us with a lien for the materials they used at another home. I was out $ 20K and had to pay off the lien of $ 3000. My yard was not even complete.
I filed a complain with the contractor license board, only to find that their license was revoked a few months before they started working on my yard. Stay away from them. I still see their truck around scamming other people.

I used these guys to remove my wood deck and create a stone/​concrete patio about 2 years ago. They did a good job that followed my plan, had a number of good workers and finished the job with in 2 weeks. However I would say they are not the most communicative bunch in the business. Once I made the last payment, they never returned another calls — and this why i would never use them again!
Pros: good work, cleaned up everything, finished ontime
Cons: not particularly attentive to changes /​details. Never returned calls after job was completed — ever.

I cannot not give a star and hence giving it 1 star. Beware from thee people. First, instead of completing the work in 3 week, they took entire summer. The business in big financial trouble and they try to recover it by not doing things professionally and using cheap material.

We used this company to landscape our backyard. We are EXTREMELY disappointed with them. And found out later that asking for money up front before the work is done, is not ethical.
The design was great (but that was a subcontractor of theirs that will no longer deal with them), however at the final phase, they asked for the last payment and they have only been here once since. And that was after begging them to come and constantly calling.
8 weeks after they came, there were dead plants, over a thousand dollars of lights sitting in a box to be installed, electrical to hot
tub needs to be trenched, some drain covers installed.
These are things they said they would do, however they did not return any of our phone calls — except for twice when thye said they were coming and never did.
We paid over 12K and they said they would be finished in June. I left 2 — 8 messages weekly with no response. We just wanted the
job finished.
We never got broken patio tiles fixed or the electrical trenched… we ended up paying someone else for that.
Anyways, we have seen them at several fairs competing in the landscape design, by their license has been revoked… you can check it here: