[Keithedill]

Their are two ways to look at this. 1. Time is money. a. Gas is expensive.
2. I have worked for several landscape operations as a designer and also I owned one for several years. Did they offer to give you a drawing or sketch. Do they have a reputation of quality. (after all you get what you pay for) Did they say they would back the cost of estimate in the bill for landscaping done. I had landscaping performed for me here n the Villages. I expected the landscapers to charge me for drawings. Well they didn't and I got what I paid for. A very poor design which looked like all the other work done in this area. I actually designed my own landscape and had a contractor give me a price on it. There is no way I would not agree to any landscape company doing work for me with out knowing exactly what I was getting and what It would look like before I contracted work from them including size of plants, types of plants, soil additives and amount of mulch or gravel, Oh, as a side note gravel may be easy to maintain the first 5 or 6 years but long term it gets filled with soil and weeds love it. It also is detrimental to plants. There's my two cents. You can take what you want and leave the rest.