Paid $10,000 for landscaping & sprinkler system on a 1/4 acre lot. They broke my new fence with a ditch digger and I had to hound them to reiumburse me $250 to repair it. Six months later, all plants showing severe dehydration despite the sprinkler system, and the basement started to have moisture problems. Turned out the plants were literally stuffed in holes barely wide enough for their root balls, without surrounding soil being aerated just clumps of red clay being replaced. How is a plant supposd to put roots in that? At the very least they should've told me it would cost more than $10,000 to get them planted right, not just planted. I was having to manually water fifty azaleas, etc. To keep them from dying. Several died anyway and I replanted those I could. They installed sprinkler heads six inches from the house so the basement got watered every time the sprinkler system came on, even though I repositioned sprinkler heads best I could so water wouldn't get to the house. The side of the house got moss and constantly has moisture on it from the spinkler heads. The force of the water blew the screen off my window causing water to stream directly in the house. Sprinkler heads were installed in the lowest most damp area of the yard, but none in the higher side where soil was cracked from lack of moisture. When I inquired if they could come out and try to reposition some of the sprinkler heads, they refused. I have since had a couple of sprinkler heads moved but it will take moving of a lot more to mitigate the problems they created. Now whenever I need landscaping I just order plants from a nursery and pick up some day labor and make sure they dig holes correctly.
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