Go Green Gardeners

pressured washed our house and exterior stone walls to prepare for spring. They did a very good job and we have actually referred them since they did our work last year to a few friends of ours and happy to report they hired them and were happy with the service as well. Great company.

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Anne and her crew do not have the experience in clearing out lawns or the design knowledge to adequately replace a lawn with a drought tolerant landscape, and their maintenance crew is costly and inefficient. First the lawn. Anne's crew scrapes the surface of the yard with hoes and takes out the surface grass. They did not go down 6-8 inches like they had claimed they would. As a result weeds started to come up and the lawn started to grow back immediately, even before they had finished working on the property. Now, Anne (as an excuse) keeps referring to a disclaimer on her contract which warns about weeds. She also verbally told me that nut grass is invasive (but at the time she said she didn't think I had any in my lawn). Well I did, and scraping the surface without digging causes nut grass to spread like crazy. Everyone else I've talked to who have had their lawn replaced with drought tolerant options have said their crew first sprayed to kill the lawn and then dug up the lawn. (Wish I knew that back before I started this whole train wreck). Long weed story short, despite extra charges for weed blocker, multiple subsequent sprayings with roundup and Ortho nutsedge killer (twice a week myself), and 6 months of maintenance, our lawn is overrun with weeds, our DG path looks like garbage, and many of the plants Anne put in have died. Second, the design. While Anne has a nice aesthetic for plants and paths, she does not place the plants in sensible places based on how the plants grow, or how tolerant they are to conditions. Within a week of planting Irish moss, all of it died because it could not stand up to the direct sunlight where it was placed. In Anne's defense she replaced it with Blue Fescue with out charging us... 5 months later... first it was too hot, then it was too wet, then too cold.... ugh. Other plants were placed right next to each other, with no consideration how they would grow. I had to move several Blue Fescue, and succulents because they were placed right under lavender bushes that quickly started smothering them. Same with Blue Fescue and Dymondia. She also planted in planters Creeping Thyme on top of beach strawberry, on top of succulents... had to move all of the thyme in the planters as it was growing over everything. (May have to move the beach strawberry as well). Additionally, she told us that the groundcover she put in would "fill in" but she clearly did not place enough as its been 6 months and the only groundcover that's filling in is weeds. (Ironically, with the exception of the dymondia, which she didn't want to plant because she thought it doesn't do well in Valley heat.... wish I had insisted on more.) Finally, the maintenance crew. At first I thought it was great that Anne worked with special needs adults, since my wife is a special needs teacher and I myself have worked in the field in the past. However, Anne does not supervise the maintenance crews, and the supervisor she employed did not give them directions. Despite the large fees and that we even paid more so they would come more often, they barely dented the weeds. Also it was my impression that they would hand-weed, but all they did was spray, which I could have done myself. After we complained, Anne admitted she was having problems with that crew and refunded one month and then did additional weed-clearing free of charge. Bear in mind this is after 6 months of maintenance with little improvement. When we politely told Anne that there were still weeds in areas despite the free "clearing" Anne politely fired us by saying something along the lines of "they weren't the right maintenance crew for [our] needs." I wish she had told us that 6 months sooner. Less than 10 days later our property was already over-run. Now we don't have the money to pay someone to fix this (our rebate plus an additional $4k went to Anne). So I'm stuck spraying, planting more groundcover myself, and adding additional drip lines, because what she placed leaves many areas bone-dry. Save yourself money, time, and the headache and go somewhere else. Oh! I almost forgot. Her crew also cut through our water main and the fire department came to shut it off. Thankfully she covered the plumber out of pocket, but makes me wonder if the lack of groundcover was cutting corners to get around the cost. Her design certainly called for more.

They are great! Best gardeners we have ever had. Really easy to communicate with them (phone or email), plus truly are truly and quot;greenand quot;.

We originally hired Anne to help us with our sad-looking lawn. She suggested creating succulent planting beds to replace the worst-looking parts. We liked that so much we had her remove all the lawn and replace some of it with new sod while creating several new planting beds. Now we have a beautiful new fountain by our front door, gravel paths, gorgeous green lawn and a raised-bed vegetable garden, as well. Anne's prices are reasonable, her crew is professional and overall it was a terrific experience. We would recommend her to anyone who wants an aesthetically pleasing, environmentally friendly front yard.

Quick response through email contact. Then followed up phone call and scheduling of estimate was quick and easy. Anne was very punctual for appointment time. Initially, we just fixed irrigation system. Then we went with the design landscaping. Her team came and worked on the landscaping over the next few weeks. I liked a lot of the plants that Anne picked out or suggested. The overall look of the garden is very nice. I have a little minor complaint in that the raised bed for the vegetable garden isn't very pretty. On one side, the wood piece was too short and the workers simply plugged the whole in with a smaller piece of wood. The wood pieces were also never nailed into the stakes so whenever my 2 year old son comes over to look at the plants, his leaning up against the wooden pieces, they fall into the bed and crushes part of the plants. I did like the fact that the sprinklers were raised and placed right into the garden bed which was nice. I actually had them continue the maintenance of the lawn and gardens after the work was done but it was a little too expensive so I've since canceled those services.