SCHMECHTIG LANDSCAPE COMPANY

They are a great company to work with. They are very responsive. I have been using them.

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Took several meetings with them to get estimate.  Did not seed enough and the covering of what they did seed, did not seem to help.  They did stabilize the covering very well; but again it did not help for the seed to take effect.  Communication with supervisor was delayed and limited.  Found a broken glass on front storm door and their response was contradictory, depending on who you talked to. Tried to add additional cost; however, they removed the additional charges when confronted.  The overall job was done reasonably well, with the exception of the grass seeding; still have several bare spots.  Clean up of the debris was exceptional.  Job took too long in my opinion.

We first contracted with Schmechtig back in January of 2010.  We wanted to spruce up the front yard with some professional landscaping, but when we saw the grand total, we realized that with a wedding on the horizon, it wasn’t going to happen.  We did contract for the re-shaping of the bed, amending of the soil, and installation of a burning bush and three boxwoods.  All of this went off without a hitch.  This year, we decided to go ahead with the rest of the plan, as well as to add on a spring clean-up, aeration, and scheduled fertilization program.  In order to conserve money, we requested that the number of each plant in our design be reduced appropriately, but otherwise, we were set to go.  The spring clean-up was done promptly and very nicely. Unfortunately, we can't say the same about anything else.  We all know that this spring’s weather left quite a lot to be desired, and we certainly don’t hold Schmechtig responsible for weather-related issues.  However, when enough time and good weather had gone by and the aeration was still not done, I checked in with our salesperson, who was surprised and apologetic, saying there was no reason it should not have been done.  It was completed within a couple days.  We also wondered about our first round of fertilizer; our salesperson looked into that, and in the meantime, we received a bill for it.  It had been done, but we weren’t home when they did it and there were none of those little flags that you so often see when fertilizer has been put down.  (We also just got billed for our second round, which apparently occurred while we were vacationing.)  So I think a 4/5 is fair for the maintenance portion of our contract.  Sadly, it’s more like a 2.5/5 for the landscape design/installation portion.  The work was done (or started, really) back in late May.  Our main concern was that two beautiful, mature Japanese barberry shrubs were inexplicably dug up and disposed of.  Schmechtig did replace those, albeit with much less mature ones, and we’re stilled bummed out about that.  Another issue was due to a mis-print (?) on our yard plan that resulted in the wrong shrubs being installed—it’s a little confusing to explain, but in the end, Schmechtig corrected the error and we got the shrubs we thought we were supposed to have gotten all along.  Our salesperson, once I called with something close to panic in my voice after seeing the initial installation (what with the missing barberries and the wrong shrubs, plus some really unattractive hostas, among other things), did come by to check things out and asked what we needed them to do to make things right.  We discussed what changes would be made and informed him that we would be out of town in the next couple weeks.  He assured us that the work would not get done while we were away because he wanted to be sure we could water.  Unfortunately, we received a call from a neighbor while we were gone saying that in fact, the workers were there at that moment.  She was kind enough to water until we got home four days later, but we felt really bad putting her in the position of tending to our new plants.   Once we got home, we checked things out and noticed that where there should have been pink yarrow planted, instead there were pink astilbes.  At first, we just wanted to let it go and be done with everything once and for all, but after a few days of taking in the look of the whole front bed, we decided that we wanted what we were supposed to have gotten in the first place.  (Did I say this was going to be brief?  I’ll summarize from here out.)  The work is finished, the bill paid—but only because we were finally able to get a correct invoice with pricing and quantities for what actually was done—which also, unfortunately, required a lot more work on our part than it should have.   There were a couple really helpful and concerned people at Schmechtig, which we appreciated; we would have appreciated even more had this whole transaction gone off with about 110% less difficulty and frustration.

We have used Schmechtig for all our landscape design and construction (multiple projects) for approximately ten-twelve years. We have been mostly pleased with all aspects of their work.

This place is very professional and service oriented. They worked with us to draw up plans and working with the design to accomplish exactly what we wanted. They replaced some plants that didn't make it through the winter. We love the way our home turned out looking outside.