we hired Jamie's a few years back, pleasant fellow...they do excellent "hard scape" (brickwork)....he started out doing the concrete borders as a sub for another landscaper...we're pleased with the hardscape...the workers showed up early, worked all day, cleaned up at end of day and came back the next day to finish up...Jamie showed up the first day and after a brief conversation with his crew chief never returned
He did give us a list of the plants that he planned to put in in advance...and we easily found them on the internet (as not being native to FL we had little knowledge of what they looked like)
In hindsight, for the money we paid, the plants that he put in were pretty 'average'....he doesn't seem to take into consideration that the plants in the north facing beds needed to be different than the plants going into the south facing beds his area of expertise is in the hardscape, not the plants
After the fact when I'd walk around the neighborhood and looked at the other jobs he did it was pretty obvious that everybody gets the same limited variety of plants...
it's been 3 years since Jamie did the work....some of what they planted are too close to the house and need to be move, some have quadrupled in size and need to be split... we're now looking to hire a real 'plant' specialist to redo the plantings
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