Kirsch Landscape & Design

Description of Work: I had Kirsch give me an estimate for cleaning up our flower beds, adding a few plants and mulch. I told them it was just a budget clean up as we were selling our house and just wanted it to look decent. They are 2 fairly large beds, but I was still surprised when the estimate came out to $1600. So I declined the estimate and decided to do it myself. Materials (mulch and plants) is part of their business so I asked if they could recommend some plants and I would get the plants and mulch from them. Their short reply was "we have a $500 charge for landscape design and consulting." Alright I guess I'll go to a garden center then. It just left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth, I was asking for plant advice to give them my business since they came out to give an estimate. I wasn't to designing an outdoor kitchen or something. Their soil and mulch prices seemed reasonable and they had free delivery so I ordered a few yards of mulch and soil from them. The delivery driver was on time and friendly and they scheduled me in quickly. I didn't look at their plants. Part of the problem I believe is they have their business split up into separate segments. I don't know how they pay their employees, but it seems like the service side has no incentive to relay customer information to their supply side. It can be rather annoying when you're trying to get information on site or over the phone. I would recommend them for raw materials. I wasn't terribly impressed with their bid on service, but I didn't get multiple bids to know if it was competitive or not. It took me a full day working by myself to get it done, and it was probably $250-300 in materials. If they acted more friendly and helpful after I declined the bid I would have been more inclined to leave an overall positive review.

Description of Work: We got a bid from Kirsch.