Grow Landscapes

Description of Work: Replacing concrete walkway and installing seating wall

Description of Work: landscaping, hardscaping and planting

Description of Work: Driveway landscaping and Patio fireplace and kitchen grill. screen installation

Description of Work: Weekly mowing; planting of shrubs and trees; fall cleanup

Description of Work: This is my 3rd attempt to enter information here and the screen keeps losing my entries. This is not fair to Grow, but I'll try to do them justice in as short a write up given the risk that I'll lose information once again. We invited Grow in to discuss renovating our back and side yards and converting it to an Oriental look. After seeing their portfolio of work and sharing ideas, we were impressed and turned them on to do an artist depictiion of their design ($600). Several weeks later, they returned with a design "to die for". We agreed and signed a contract for their part of the design. The scope of their work included removing a lower deck and replacing it with a stone 2-level terrace with large flagstone and cement between the stones, creating a side path and creating the entire Oriental back yard with bolders, plantings and pergola. The lower terrace was installed first, using flagstone surrounded by several huge bolders for effect. A 6 ft bridge was purchased and assembled to provide access from the terrace to the grassy area. A 2nd upper back yard terrace was installed over what previously had been a gradually sloping hill, and the foundation for this upper terrace foundation was created using concrete jack-hammered out of the fround from what was a pervious lower deck. The upper terrace and lower terrace were joined together with matching flagstone steps. An matching 12ft circular remote terrace was added to the far back and a pergola was installed ... nice touch. I can't go into all the details of the landscaping, except to say that the grass areas is in the shape of a kidney that lies between the terrace next to the house and the far back terrace where the pergola is located. As a border between the grass and the landcape Grow used a type of green ground cover called Mazus, which gives the grass a border. The landscape consist of a number of huge bolders, bushes. trees and various plantings. The plants included Mugho pines, Japanese Black Pines, espalier, bamboo, maple, aucuba and so on. Part of the Grow design also included a rock garden that led from the rear terrace/pergola towards the lower part of the yard. The rock garden path adds to the overall visual effect of an Oriental garden, but it has no practical value (e.g., it's not a solution to drainage). The design also includes a sloping walk with steps along one side of the house, stretching from the kitchen on the upper side all the way down a path to the back yard, where it joins up with the backyard upper terrace. On the upper side, just outside the kitchen, this path consisted of small, flat stones separated by Mazus. To one side of the upper path, a small stacking stone wall was created for an herb garden. Proceeding down from the herb garden, the path goes through 3 level of steps, and between the steps there were flat stones separated by a fine grained gravel. The steps themselves are made of concrete. In addition to the landscaping work by Grow, we had an enclosed Red Oak fence installed with 2 gates, an underground 12-station sprinkler system and lighting system installed. Paulo (of Grow) proposed two contactors for these projects and more or less synchronized the work, even though it was not within his scope. According to Paulo, Grow now has integrated all of these components into their overall work proposals, which will not only provide a more realistic cost estimate of the total job to folks like us but will put the responsibility on Grow to integrate all these components of work.

Description of Work: My husband and I hired Grow Landscapes to redesign our backyard patio. The job included demolition of the existing concrete/brick patio and the design/installation of a brand new paver-style patio.

Description of Work: Landscape design plan and implementation; lawn care.