OAKLAND PARK LAWN & LANDSCAPING

This was the worst experience I could imagine with a landscaping company. Their crew came in with weed whips and instead of trimming around garden beds, went into the bricked off, raised garden beds and leveled a vegetable garden, flowers in full bloom, and destroyed all of the decorations displayed in the gardens, to the tune of about $200 in damages. In an email exchange, the owner confirmed that his crew had done the damage, but saw no reason to fully compensate us for the damages they had done. There was no effort to correct the damages to the garden beds, clean up the shards of glass that are now strewn through the garden, nor provide any monetary compensation. Run away from this company as fast as you can!

It's a great company if you are looking for someone to mow down your raised bed gardens and damage your decorations, then act like it was your fault. I'm not sure how a "professional" landscaper mistakes a 3 foot tomato plant for a weed.

I got them out of Angie?s List book. They were supposedly going to do my yard this time. I am thinking about having them do my lawn this year, but no one has called me. I?m half way wanting to do it and half way not. I hate to do it till I start doing it, then I like it. That was just the one time and there were a lot of leaves. There were more leaves than the weekend before where I had bagged 16 bags. I knew there were a lot. We?ve got a lot of trees and we don?t have a very big yard. I think the whole thing was $180. Maybe it was $200, that?s right, because I wanted him to take the leaves away after he had gotten them, because Hilliard has a policy here where you can put them on the curbed lawn and they will come and get them, they say. I did that a couple years ago and they didn?t come for weeks and it ruined the whole yard, I had to reseed it. So, I told them I wanted it taken away. I think they charged me an extra $20 for that. I don?t really know how to compare the price. It was maybe a little bit higher than what I thought, but I didn?t really compare it with anybody. I compare it to how much I charge me, which is zero. It wasn?t bad at all. Two weeks later, more leaves came down. I ended up doing it myself the last time. It wasn?t his fault. Actually, I think they blew in from the neighbors yards. I never actually met them, but on the phone and everything they were very professional. He texted me. We did a lot of things by texting and he was very responsive with that. I guess the only thing if there was a rating for, I would mark him a little low, but it?s really nothing bad. It took him a while to send me the bill. I remember telling him that if he didn?t bill me pretty soon that I would use it for Christmas presents. He actually never billed me till January. I came in on the end, I know of his season when I was looking for somebody. I am sure he just got in there. It?s not bad. I mean most people wouldn?t care that they didn?t get billed. That was my only concern, that he wouldn?t remember and then I would be mad when it came up and I saw I forget about that $200. I was hoping he would call this year cause I have some kind of landscaping I am going to try to do either myself or have him do. I am still thinking of having him do my lawn. I do some stuff on the side and if I do the yard, it takes me half a day. Just cause I trim everything, mow and clean the mower and all that stuff. Then I usually fine other things to do outside, if I start that. It was $228.38. The Fall cleanup was $150, waste removal was $25 and mow, trim and blow was $30. I rated them an ?A? because I was kind of in a rush and I was hoping I could get somebody that same week. When I called and he was available, like I said, he responded quickly. He was real quick. I texted him and he texted back real quick. It went back and forth till we got set up and everything and I thought that was pretty good. He did what he said and he charge me everything he said he was going to charge. The only difference was in the waste removal. He thought that Hilliard collected that stuff and he didn?t charge me for that. He left them there and that was the other thing. I called him and asked him if he could get them and he came back that same day and picked it up. I think he was very good. I think he had a good rating on Angie?s List before. I thought he was pretty good. The best work was he was very responsive and did it. I was in the need to have someone come out and he came very quickly and the work was good. He was pretty much as good as I would have done. It was nice to come home to see no leaves on the ground.

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He has done a good job so far.

It was late in the season when they started. The herbicide die-off seemed spotty, though the representative said that was nothing to worry about. It took them longer than expected to reseed the lawn. We did have a few days of rain which caused some of the delay. I had to call them to get them to say exactly when they would be out to reseed. When they finally reseeded the lawn it was October 12th which is very late in the season. Originally, they thought that they would be out a week earlier. They lay down a very thick layer of straw after seeding. We watered everyday for a month as directed. Evidently the straw was too thick in some spots as the grass came up around those places but not very well where the straw was heavy. After we racked off some of the straw, the grass came up a little better. Oakland skimped on the additional topsoil as we still have some low spots that were there from before and we might need to over-seed again in the spring. In fairness to Oakland, I started looking for someone to redo my lawn very late in the season. It would probably be much better if I had gotten someone in September. Pete at Oakland was very responsive to my calls. I'll see in the spring how it looks.

Their work is fine. They made an appointment, but were two hours late. It seems like their communication is not good. They showed up late twice. The price was good

Everything turned out well. They had a very good price and did a good job.

I liked them very much. The design looks fabulous and everyone on the street, ask me who did that? It turned out very good and they are good to work with. I will use them in future.

They are very good. They have the best selection. I go to them for plants, but I do not use them for landscaping because of the price. I have gone into them with questions as well. I went in to them when I Japanese Maple was getting brown on one side and they told me that it was because it was getting too much sun on the west side. They are very good about questions and advice. They have an excellent selection of plants.

Ryan returned all my calls and they showed up to do work on time. Bart was great about doing everything just as I wanted it. Ryan came at the end and made sure everything was just right and helped with the clean up. Very good experience over all.

I have used this company for about a year. When I am gone, he will still do the job, even though he knows he will not get paid until I get back. He will also do little things like remove Volumteer trees. If you want anything additional, like plants taken out, he will do that.