[Choice Maintenance]

Originally Posted by Ozzello

I pay my workers on percentage. They make better money, work harder, and have pride in the work they are doing. Landscapers paying help 9 or 10 bucks an hour and blaming them when the customers aren't happy, are a dime a dozen. I doubt the plan is as good as you think. You will know in a year or 2.

Are the Loropetalums or Walter's Viburnums still in front? How many sub-tropicals did they use? If you counted all the good landscape designers in TV, you would only need one hand. Most of the 'designers' are actually salesmen or lawn care people who learned the names of a few plants and a knack at spacing them out, with no idea or care at what your landscapes future is.

One common problem I am finding lately,( big and small landscape companies ), is the limerock used as base under the stack walls, getting used as fill where the plants are planted. In about a year, the plants and trees are yellowing due to the alkalinity, and I have replaced a crazy number of plants (in landscapes done by other companies) where the "soil" was either mixed with the limerock, or was ALL limerock. I have to wonder if they don't know...or just don't care. For the money these companies are making, they should be ashamed of how they are bamboozling most of you with fancy equipment and huge advertising budgets. Can't wait till the building stops and the carpetbaggers move on.

Amen Ozzello,

We run our company on the same pay system!
We also can't wait for the building to stop so smaller companies like us can focus on maintaining all of the over planting done by inexperienced landscapers.

Big companies come in with big equipment and perform "landscaping" services, then maintenance companies like us have to keep up with everything they installed!