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Originally Posted by Ozzello
If you needed a $2000 overhaul 5 years later, it wasn't a well designed landscape. Good landscape designs get better for at LEAST 7 years, and should not need a complete overhaul for well past the 10 year mark.
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The major landscaping job was in 2013 done by McGowan for $4800. What started me on the redo was the Sylvester Palm had a lot of grown around the base and looked bad. I took photos and went to K&B Nursey and they directed me Jim Davis at the Sumter Ext of the University of Florida Master Naturlist Instructor. I emailed him the photos and he said it had just normal root growth and it just needed trimming.
I contacted Terrascape for an estimate because the front looked worn out. They trimmed two palms, I mean really took off about 10 feet of dead fronds off the Sylvester. The retaining wall was coming apart where the adhesive had dried out. The white rocks were dirty and the cooper rocks looked dull, the two smaller European Fan Palms were overgrown, and I wanted color by adding several shrubs.
They redid the retaining wall, added 15 colorful shrubs with individual sprayer heads connected to the existing system, which was installed by McGowan 6 years ago. Refurbished all the rocks in front and next to the front door area. Moved a large rock from the top tier to the bottom, power-washed both big landscaping rocks and retaining wall. Added grass shrubs in several spots with spreayers. It looks like a brand new job, and to go with it, I'm having Oscar repaint our house tomorrow. I'm happy with Terrascape and not so happy with McGowan for the reasons you state.
Here's how it looked in 2013 after McGowan finished. I'll take a photo later this week after the home is repainted.
