Casper Landscape Design

I worked for Casper Curto for one year as his driver during 2013. He is an extremely talented and knowledgeable landscape designer, and knows more about plants than anyone I’ve ever come across. In my time with Casper I learned an immense amount about landscaping, both from him and his excellent, and I mean REALLY good, employees. I also met a few great clients and feel that I was considered by them to be a good person to work with, amicable as well as hardworking and dedicated.
Unfortunately my experience with Casper as an employee was negative overall. During my time working for him he was verbally abusive, denied myself and my coworkers our legally earned break time, charged his customers for work we never did, hired me for one position then changed my job title when I asked for a raise, and was in every way a difficult person to work for. For the most part he did not partake in any of the actual landscaping activities or even show up on site while we were working; he left everything except the initial design to my coworkers, who as I stated above are excellent in every way. In the end Casper ‘let go’ of me after I asked for 2 days off to visit my family on the East Coast at Christmas. To be fair I had missed more than an average amount of work on account of a trip I had planned before my employment with Casper and a death of someone close to me, but denying someone a visit with family at the holidays (after being told to take the days off by the client we were working for at the time!) is cruel.
My suggestion; stay away from this guy! There are plenty of decent landscapers out there, and they don’t charge $ 45 p/​hr p/​employee while paying their employees $ 15 p/​hr. Oh and by the way, the review from Darrell found in the reviews below is from Casper’s live-​in partner, he’s referring to Casper’s personal home landscape.

I assisted Casper Landscape Design installing a landscape at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show at the Cow Palace. I am a former landscape designer and know the work that it involves. I was impressed with Casper’s professionalism and organization. He has a top notch crew that understand his work and all the technical details of building the infrastructure of a landscape.
What I have seen of his gardens is extraordinary especially his stone work and paving. If you live in Marin County and are looking for a top notch landscape contractor who also knows his plants as well as the installation of hardscapes Casper Landscape Design is the company to turn to.