Coyote Landscape Services

We thought this would be a simple, straightforward task. We relied on Coyote Landscaping to recommend the best options for cover material and decided on 'crusher fines.' We were told that, besides from an occasional cleaning with a leaf-blower, the final result of their work would satisfy our needs for a land cover that would require no or at least very minimal weed control. They placed about 4 inches of crusher fines over a commercial-grade weed barrier cloth that they apparently use routinely. During the growing season following their work, weedy growth rapidly developed, covering up to about 20% of the crusher fines substrate in front of the house. At least 3 weedy species of annual grass and 5 of annual forbs emerged. We began to manually pull weeds and have been doing it annually ever since... now heading into the fifth year. We are now about to embark on a crusher-fines removal project and re-do the whole thing ourselves. This has been a very disappointing/frustrating experience... and $ costly (for us). We have the sense that they do big-ticket projects very well, but that they handle small projects such as ours with less care. Ironically, when planning this little task with the owner of Coyote Landscaping it quickly became clear to us that his ideas were superior and ours could be dismissed.