Garden Grove Landscaping & Nursery

Description of Work: Entire front landscaping was redesigned and replaced.

Description of Work: Landscaping, top soil, mulch, several trees and bushes

Description of Work: Install tree, shrubs and stone perimeter.

Description of Work: I have not had any work done yet, but I have met with and spoken to Luke a couple of times. He has been super helpful, and pretty quick about getting back to me -- it is the busiest time of the year and I know he is swamped, but so far he has been great. We are planning to have Garden Grove do some landscaping, either now or in the fall, depending on timing.

Description of Work: Garden Grove Landscaping have done some hardscape work for me.

Description of Work: Concrete, brick and flagstone around a fire pit.

Description of Work: I bought a quart of firewood from them the other day.

Description of Work: Installed Pond with UV light. Added landscape lights. Rerouted irrigation.

Description of Work: I have dealt with Forever Green for the last 15 years almost all my landscaping has been done by them with a price tag of well over $20,000. Last fall in November time frame I had contacted with them to redo my entire front yard for over $6,00.00 and the project person John Stapivic made the difference between a good job and fantastic job. When the plants were delivered all 93 of them John was there to position the plants so they looked just right, which was a blessing because what you see in the picture design is not what they actually look like. Well 6 months later this spring the plants came to life wow how nice, except for about 8 Indian Hawthorns which were transplanted and duly noted they more than likely they would not make, sure enough we had to pull all the Indian Hawthorns which is what led me to rating this company as low as I can. I call Garden Grove back to help me come up with a new design for where the Indian Hawthorns were removed and again john did a wonderful job in helping with the new design. Then I was notified by Garden Grove that John would not be able to work with me he is no longer with the company and that a new person was assigned to take over this new project. Met with the new person and he used John's designed to talk to us because we indicated we had some changes and wanted to do a little more. Well this new person started right off with bad mouthing John and said I can expect more from him and that he would not screw up like John and in fact it was some of John comments to his customer that surpassingly was part of the reason he was no longer there. So now after working a better part of 6 weeks we could never get a written contract that was correct. We would get a picture of what the plants would look like but were not able to gate a contract that had what was in the picture I could go on and on about the problems with the contract and what I was being shown. Finally I said that I would like to have the picture to show my wife what the new plants would kind of look like but I was told that the company will not allow that. I stated that we have spent all this money with them and plan on doing this new job which was over $3,000 and that if we can't be trusted then I don't know if I want to do business with them but rules are rules he said. So after not being really excited to work with this new person and with the price kept going up as we eliminated plants I said we would just not do the project. He now said what if he were to plant just the larger plants (9) this would cut the cost I said yes let me have the new contract well again it was not anything like I asked for and other plants were added to the new plan by eliminating about 6 - 3 gallon plants the price cam down by $290+.I said no we would buy the plants from him and I would plant them myself saving $999.00 in labor. He was very upset and said he would have to charge me for a design fee, I said what design fee I was never informed about any design fee and why would you charge me a fee if I am buying the plants from you here again rules are rules. Now I am very upset and go up to garden Grove nursery to talk to the owner but they were not there and the person I spoke to, Ashley said she would get my message to them. Well it has been almost 3 weeks now and never heard anything from the owners as promised.

Description of Work: On or about June 1, 2009 I contacted Garden Grove to come to my home to make suggestions for redoing my front yard landscape, the original yard landscaping was showing it's age where a lot of the shrubs were dying or so over grown that they were not a pleasant site. John from Garden Grove arrived on time as scheduled and listen to what we wanted to see our landscape look like. John made some great suggestions as to what kind of plant does well in shade as opposed to full sun. After about 2 hours John made many notes and said he would get back to us with a picture of how he in visioned what we were looking for. A week later John got back to us with the pictures he spoke of they were beyond belief and the price was in line with other estimates we received. Well because of a lot of uncontrolled circumstances we did not go with this project until around the first of November when we contacted John and explained we would like to do the project but we made many changes to the original plan including saving 12 Indian Hawthorn shrubs that would need to be transplanted. John was very accomodating and we started the process all over again. We signed the contract had the work done and today we are looking at a complete redo of our front yard which includes over 60 shrubs 4 trees, a large rock 5 yards of top soil and 10 yards of mulch.

Description of Work: They did the landscaping for me. They replaced a fence, did a padio and a retaining wall.