JLS Land Services

Very good , excellent work. Will look to request another clean up next season!

Wonderful! Great work, great work ethic, professional and punctual. Easy to talk with and had great ideas! Would use them again

I cannot say enough wonderful things about this group. I sent an email via Angie's List and was called 2 days later by Bill Baylor, the designer. He came to our home, went through everything we wanted done, gave spectacular recommendations to the type of plants that were best suited to us. A week later, he returned with a plan and pictures of how our home would look with the plants he picked. We were bowled over! This was a Friday. He said they'd be here Weds/Thurs and sure enough, they showed up Thurs morning ready to work. I have to stop here and say that the crew that came to our home were OUTSTANDING. Very respectful, very cheerful, and hard workers. The owner of the company, James, also came out and stayed with the project and worked alongside his guys. You do not see that very often. The heat and humidity did not deter them. I know how hard it was to move that Japanese Maple and they took very good care of it as it is a costly tree. Day 2: Same thing. They all showed up on time, cheerful and friendly and went right to work. Today they put in all the plants, arranged according to Billy's plan and Billy was here first thing this morning to ensure all the plants went were he arranged. And again, James was here working with them. Our yard has now been weeded, excavated, planted and mulched and it looks FANTASTIC. What a difference we see in how our yard looks. I could not be any happier. Next year, we will have them back! I just want to thank JLS Land Service AND Angie's List b/c I never would have found them any other way. I would also like to say that we had another company put in a French drain and wall planters around our shed 2 years ago and I will never have them back. JLS Land Services was well worth every penny spent. THANK YOU JLS and Angie's List!!

Called to set-up an appointment. I called back to schedule. He called back and wanted to help but one of his workers got hurt and he was having trouble do the jobs he already had. Appreciated why he couldn't help me.

James has done landscape work at my house in Yardley, PA several times now. Can't beat the value here. My landscaping looks amazing!!! True pro and he has great ideas.

They do great work. They were on time, professional and did more than we expected. Theses guys are great!

We've used JLS a couple times in the past to mulch, clean up beds, dig footers and install new drainage lines on the side of our house. Each time they've been professional and hard working. The owner is very down to earth and does everything he can to go the extra mile to make sure the customer is happy. Unfortunately being out of a job short-term is going to prevent us from using them this spring but we're looking forward to working with them later in the year or early next year to replace our paved side-walk and aging wood stairs in the front of the house.

They showed up on time and were very professional. Everything that they said they would do was done very efficiently and professionally. All of the greenery that was planted looks fresh and green. Your could tell that they were newly purchased and had not been out of the ground a long time. They cleaned up after themselves. The whole property looks very beautiful and welcoming. We are very satisfied and would gladly use them again. Two neighbors saw the wonderful job they were doing and the company got two more jobs from the look of our property.

I contacted JLS Landscaping to estimate the job of landscaping the front of our house. Jim Langenstein, the landscape architect came out and discussed our needs and budget. He returned a few days later with a detailed design showing the outline of the beds and the names and placement of the plants. He described all plants specified in his proposal, and suggested alternatives based on our input. He also included an in-ground lights system to wash over the front of the house. We scheduled the work and James and his crew came out and completed everything in two days. Jim was there the entire time supervising the work. The design included some daffodils, and when Jim showed me the bag of bulbs that they were getting ready to plant I asked what color they were. Jim said they were white with yellow cups, but I wanted yellow with orange cups. The nursery where they bought their stock didn't have any of those, so Jim scoured the area stores for yellow daffodils until he found some (thank you, Home Depot!). James and his guys did a wonderful job. I can't wait 'til spring when all the plants will bloom, it's really going to look spectacular. I was very impressed with the professionalism and attention to detail of both Jim L. and James. I will definitely use JLS Landscaping again for any lawn and landscaping work.

Excellent. The work was quality and the owner knows his stuff, is reasonable on price and does what he says. The only one little minor detail is he had to postpone the job once as I think he overbooked his guys.

They were very courteous and there was not a great deal of wait time. They did everything they said they would do.

As mentioned, there was a delay in having the work completed. The deal was purchased a full year or more before the final product. The first assigned person came out quickly and was very clear there was a backlog of work and that it would take some time. After about 6 months I started to wonder but had other projects going around the house so i didn't follow up very promptly. Finally, i got back in touch JLS and a new guy, Jim, was sent out. He was really super and again told me that it might take some time; i was in no hurry. After several weeks, i got my design and had an opportunity to go through the decisions regarding layout and plant choices. i'm overall really pleased with the final product. I have to accept some responsibility for the delay since I didnt really stay on top of it myself. The final analysis, JLS WANTS to make the customer happy and will work to a reasonable solution.

Overall, the experience was good. James, the owner, responded in a timely manner to my request for an estimate. After my husband and I decided to have the work done, we called James to set up a date. I waited too long to write this review, and I don't recall all of the details with regard to dates, but I do recall that one day James was unable to come when he scheduled to come, but he did call to let us know that he would not be able to make it. He did come on the rescheduled date. James was always a gentleman -- very polite, and answered any questions we had.

The process took about 1 month from start to finish. At first we contacted JLS just for routine landscape maintenance. However, James was honest in his appraisal and told us what we could see for ourselves--namely, that there was a great deal of overgrowth. Although he would have done only what we asked for at first, James suggested that we have his associate and a landscape architect, Jim, look at the property, give us an assesment, and work-out a long-term game plan for getting the landscaping back into shape. We did meet with Jim and without regret. As it turned out, James and his crew started with the original work we requested by cleaning and de-weeding the grounds. Once the overall game plan and costs were worked-out with Jim, James and his crew came back to remove and, in some cases, replant the overgrowth. Then they came back to do the replantings. They left with the place looking wonderful and the best it had in years. We will have them come back to do the routine maintenance and do the cutting-back and selective pruning in late fall which is part of the longer term plan Jim recommended.

I told James he had the job and he told me he would get back to me to schedule the work. This took a while and the work was scheduled for the 26th of July. James and his crew arrived promptly on the 26th and set about their work. I did notice they did not have much heavy equipment to level the areas where the stumps had been removed. They did have a walk behind front-end loader which James assured me would be adequate for the job. I was a bit sceptical as I had attempted to tackle this job myself with my Kubota tractor and front-end loader which was definatly more powerful than the walk behind James was going to use but I left James to his work as he started on the first area in the front yard where one of the trees had been removed. The job took James and his crew most of the day to complete. Upon inspection of the finished work, I noticed James had forgotten about the area in the backyard where the second tree had been removed and they had forgotten to do one of the five tree rings. He immediatly put his crew to work to finish the tree ring and he started to tackle the second area that needed leveled and seeded himself. They finished in an hour or so and were paid for their work. I'd like to note that all the leveled areas were seeded and straw put down so it was difficult to see the quality of the work below the straw. This is why I have waited several weeks to write this review so the grass has had time to grow and I have had a chance to mow these newly seeded areas to really feel how level they were. I mowed these newly seeded areas on Aug. 14th and was very disappointed. The front lawn area is rough and in my opinion barely passable. The backyard area is totally disapointing. It has large high and low areas that should have been leveled and I am sure the mower will be scalping the lawn in this spot due to the gross unevenness! His rush to finish this area is reflected in the quality of work that was produced here. I would also like to point out that they did not bring a trencher to finish the ditch for the water line. Instead they elected to use picks and shovels. This resulted in the remaining ditch not being dug to the 10" specified depth and the water line now is not at this depth along its total length. On the plus side, I will give them good grades on the mulching of the tree rings as these do look good after they completed this work. In hind sight, they were the lowest bidder out of the 2 bids received, but I would get a third bid next time. I would recommend them for minor work like mulching but if it comes to any work beyond this I would go with a larger company which has the equipment to tackle the job.

Our experience with JLS began with an immediate telephone response to our email inquiry. Within a day we had an appointment with Jim, the landscape design specialist. Jim listened to our concerns, had good ideas, drew up some plans, helped us select pavers from a catalog, and a few days later presented us with an itemized estimate. We agreed to the price and the work was scheduled to begin about a week later. We had previously scheduled the work to be done in April by another contractor, who had postponed repeatedly and didn't keep us informed well, so for us, good communication was an imperative. Communication with JLS was excellent! They kept us informed by phone, email and text messaging, and started the work on the scheduled day. James and his crew were extremely professional, friendly and courteous throughout the process. Our main concern was correction of the water problem in the yard- our small townhouse yard was a virtual swamp: too wet to walk through and everything we planted, died. We also had a weedy, sparse lawn, some ugly, overgrown shrubs, and an old brick-on-sand patio that we were forced to weed constantly. In front of the house we had a similar brick-on-sand walkway which was uneven and crumbling. As soon as they arrived, the JLS crew prepped the yard by clearing all the unwanted vegetation.The first job JLS tackled was the patio, which was removed completely- bricks, sand, and underlying plastic, and then reshaped, regraded and replaced with pavers. In the front of the house they had to remove the brick walkway and a section of concrete walkway before installing a new paver walkway. That work took the first two days. During that time they were able to observe the sources of water in our yard. They could see that poor grading caused rainwater to pool in the center of our yard, but in addition, we were also getting the water from our sump pump and our neighbor's sump pump; both discharged under our deck. Even if our neighbor's sump pump water was aimed away from our yard it would have flowed downhill to us, so we decided to tie their sump drains to our new drainage system. The original drainage plan entailed laying porous pipe underground strategically to collect water in the yard and carry it to a deep rock filled trench. However, one heavy rain convinced James that we had too much water to deal with for that plan. Instead, he suggested that additional pipes should be buried to drain the water to an easement where it could then flow to the sewer system. Our final system consisted of two long sections of underground pipe to bring water from the yard, the two sumps and and our downspout to a deep gravel filled trench that runs the width of the yard. Another pipe from the trench cuts through a berm in the back of the yard and terminates in an easement so excess water can flow downhill toward the road behind our house, where it can be drained by sewers. The entire drainage system is underground and almost invisible. The yard was covered with topsoil and regraded. The job was finished with a sod lawn, which is thriving nicely, and mulch in all the bedding areas. To ensure good drainage from the downspouts, the gutters were cleared as well. We have since had some spells of torrential rain and we are happy to see NO flooding in the yard. We've also noticed that our sump pump rarely runs, where it used to run 3-4 times an hour. The sod looks great and is ready for its first mowing. The new patio and walkway are level and very attractive. Finally, James repaired a section of our split rail fence, and the gate, so now we have a nice safe area in which our granddaughter can run. The price for this job was a bit higher than our previous contractor, but we also had a much more complicated solution than the first contractor priced out. In fact, our final cost was higher than the JLS estimate because we needed to address water issues that were worse than we'd known. Overall, we feel the price was good. JLS didn't leave us hanging the way the first contractor did. The work was scheduled promptly and completed expeditiously, and the quality of the work is excellent. Our yard is now a usable, attractive space ready for some new ornamental planting in the beds. We highly recommend JLS for landscaping and hardscaping. It was a pleasure.

We did some of the work ourselves to save money (like demo the old deck, pour concrete footings for pergola, build pergola and plant the beds). JLS was very flexible with that. They also were able to meet an aggressive timeline (we needed to have everything done within 3 weeks of starting for a big outdoor party) and they needed to work with/around 3 other contractors who were putting new siding on the house, new basement windows and tree work. Jim (the landscape architect) was on site almost every day and James (contractor) was there often. The crew was very capable and meticulous. The patio is absolutely awesome. I found that they made good recommendations and helped us make some of the decisions about paver colors/patterns and trees by listening to what we like and suggesting alternatives.The work was done on time and on budget--no surprises. We have since added the pergola and we can now enjoy our beautiful new outdoor space.

James and his crew (2 workers) showed up at 9:00 AM sharp. He made a point to meet with me first to go over the project and explain how all work was going to be done. He listened to what I wanted and offered advice on how best to accomplish everything. The stone was pre-purchased as I had hoped to do the work myself. His crew dug out the perimeter of each bed, laid modified stone, and constructed two L-shaped walls. All three of them worked equally hard throughout the day. His stone mason took the extra time to make sure each piece fit in its location but also looked good where it was placed. His other worker was in constant motion supporting the other. The end result was proof of their quality and professionalism and exceeded our expectations. All three were friendly, respectful, and showed that they cared about the work they were doing. Before it was over, James helped offer advice on some other trouble spots on my property. I hope to work with James and his crew again on future projects. My thanks to them.

Good. The job lasted a little longer then expected, but it was worth the wait. They had great attention to detail.

For years my sump pumps have caused problems at the front of my house because they drain into an area that is impermeable clay, creating a nuisance all year and a hazard in winter. James was one of 3 A-rated Angies List landscaping contractors I contacted about the job, and the only one who responded quickly with a good plan at a reasonable price. The day of the job he and a worker arrived with a small backhoe and a load of gravel. After finding the underground drain lines for the sump pumps JLS excavated a deep hole for the drywell and filled it with gravel. Top soil was replaced, soil was seeded, and a pop-up outlet installed against the chance of overflow. The system works really well, and has solved the problem.

Great, honest guy who showed up on time, did a great job cleaning the gutters and gave me an honest appraisal of additional work we are thinking about doing. Went above and beyond once he got his ladder out and even helped me with a flood light issue. Will definitely call him again.

The service was exceptional from consultation to completed services. James is extremely professional and completed the work exactly as asked. I will also use his landscaping and design services in the Spring.

Jim and his helpers arrived on time and completed the work quickly. They cleaned up and left everything neat. They replaced paving bricks in other locations in the front yard when asked to do so.

Arrived about an hour and a half earlier than they said they would arrive and put the fence up efficiently and quickly.

It went very well. Jim showed up on time, spent 2 hours surveying my property and asking me what I was looking for.