We had landscaping done on our first villa including rocks, walls and one Robellini about 5-6 years ago. The cost was about $4,400 which would probably be double today. After the first winter covering the Robellini during frost nights wearing heavy duty gloves to prevent stabbings and still having half of it turn brown from the cold we replaced it with a European fan palm.
Our present villa is one of the few in our area without any post-purchase landscaping done. I actually like the looks of the pine straw mulch compared to everyone’s rocks which will still eventually sprout weeds. When it needs to be refreshed we buy pine-straw bales at Home Depot/Lowe’s.
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