LANDSCAPEWITCH INC

WOW!! OMG!! It doesn't look like the same yard. Alexis listened - really listened - to what we wanted and needed. She and her guys designed and built a dream backyard. We are very pleased with the work and recommend her services.

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The wall was built as a result of the recent flooding.  My backyard slopes down toward my house.  During the May flood our yard was under a foot of water or more due to the run off from the yards behind my house.  The retaining wall will divert the water from coming up to my back door and it will be directed to travel around my house and run down to the side instead of settling in the back yard.

The project went very well. I wanted a small garden with a small flagstone patio in a shady area beside my house. I wanted to use mainly native plants for birds and butterflies and Alexis is extremely knowledgeable and enthusiastic regarding native plants. She came to our house, gave me lots of ideas and options. She is very creative and drew up design ideas on the spot. She wrote down a list of native plants which would work in different places and gave us an estimate. Our property is a mix of two-thirds wild natural landscape and about one-third professional landscape. Alexis was able to blend the two ideas together using native rock and flagstone.

After refining our design and estimate, we set dates for the work to begin, working around all the rainy days we had this spring. But we were flexible and we kept in touch with each other. She and her two-man crew started and finished the project in three days, just as she had predicted.

I would hire her again. She is professional, creative, knowledgeable, and she supervised and worked with her crew closely. During the installation she was very pleasant and generously shared her knowledge when asked about other aspects of our property. Her bill matched her estimate. No problems.

It's been two months since the garden and patio were installed, and it has stood up well to the Memorial Day/June gulley-washers. Everything is intact and the flagstone patio and gardens drain well.

We got one estimate for our new home that sounded like "we will put in sod and then we can talk about some bushes."  Alexis came to the house and took measurements of the house and yard and assessed the contours and drainage requirements of the yard.  She drew detailed plans with names of plants and presented it to us with detailed descriptions of the plants and what her vision for the design was.  We required some small changes which she cheerfully accommodated and  we hired her to do the job.  Her crew was dedicated and did an awesome job lasting about a month.  Our yard is now a showplace with wonderful areas for relaxing and there is always something blooming.

Alexis is wonderful to work with and her team of guys know what they're doing (not for nothing I like the fact that she has legally sponsored all the members of her team--no undocumented aliens working for her but more important she cares enough about her people and having quality help).  She has great ideas but is open to suggestions and personal idiosyncrasies.  I changed my mind about things in mid-stream and she never batted an eyelash.  I also asked her to do things well beyond her scope (like moving a huge chicken coop from my neighbors' front yard to their backyard because they couldn't do it and it was an eyesore). (I'm in a well-established central neighborhood, not out in the burbs.)
My lot slopes backwards fairly dramatically and she found a way to turn a roaring creek when it rains into nothing by terracing the side of the house.  Now even in the worst storm there is barely any run-off.
She planted in winter so I didn't get the full effect until just now as the weather warms up but I really love everything she did--it looks great and my neighbors have complimented me.  She is also funny, charming, and smart.

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Alexis came out and listened to my idea and made a few suggestions, that I used. Then she and her crew came out on an agreed upon date and did an outstanding job in apx 8 hours.

Alexis called and scheduled a time to meet, and arrived as planned. She listened to my thoughts and developed an excellent concept for turning my plain lawn into a beautiful landscape with Austin friendly plants. She then invested the time to walk the property and hand draw a plan with all of the details necessary to show how the changes would look.

Alexis is an exceptional plantsman. She very knowledgeable in her field, passionate about her work, and also possesses the artistic attributes to know what plants/trees would grow best best in an area with great visual appeal. She is easy to work with and also stands behind her work.

This job went extremely well. No problems with the supervision or crews. They worked well together. The plants were very healty and looked great when planted! They cleaned the area before leaving. I plan to use the LandscapeWitch again. [email protected]

She has done such a wonderful, beautiful job. We have had other contractors out here and they just look at it land like study it. When she built our seating area under the trees she knew of my interest in fossils and she brought them in to the design too. Just like those personal touches. She saw that I like fig trees and she brought me 4 more too. We really liked her price, She made observations about our likes and dislikes, She made sure her workers were here and working. She really does a fantastic job and we are bringing her back next year to do more work.

We had to combat the spring rain, but Alexis's work is great. We love our new backyard. We were able to communicate with her regularly and if there was any miscommunication we worked together to quickly resolve them. The backyard is exactly what we wanted. We have plans to hire Alexis for other projects.

They were good. They were prompt in getting the work done. My overall experience with them was good. Their professionalism was good. Their quality of work was excellent.

Very pleased. Once work began, Alexis was very responsive and kept us abreast of what was going on. Showed up with the crew on the day promised,and finished quickly and went over everything in detail before/during/after service. She is very well versed in her field, and was very pleasant to work with.

Work was shoddy in many areas. Many plants not planted in the ground, just sitting in holes. Some areas left unmulched. Flagstones set too low in some areas. Workers took debris and just put it on embankment and covered over with mounds of mulch, which shortly settled and debris then showed through, looked awful. Alexis came back to rectify with new workers, quality of work better but not great. She did not supervise her workers adequately and did not inspect for quality control. Nice person and a great designer.

When Alexis came to bid on the job, she drew a plan and gave me a quote that day. She spent several hours total talking to me, assessing the condition of some existing shrubs, showing me pictures of her plant choices if I wasn't familiar with them, drawing the plan, and writing up the quote. The other two landscapers who I requested bids from spent less than a half-hour with me and only gave me a vague idea of a plan and plants they would use. As a result of her thoroughness and ideas. I hired Alexis that same day. She was available to schedule the work within three weeks. She also accommodated my schedule, allowing me to work a fence replacement by another contractor in between the clean-up work and the landscaping.

The backyard was beautiful (it was the most involved); the front bed is also a big improvement and I love her plant choices.

The patio is gorgeous, especially the pebbles inlaid between some of the limestone pavers. The arbor and trellis are made of cedar, are sturdy and are nicely designed.

Other work included adjustments to my existing sprinkler system to service the modified design. They also laid some sod to complete the redesign. A couple of small areas were not getting adequate water, and Alexis came out promptly and modified the sprinkler system to fix the problem.

Alexis is pleasant and her crew was polite and hard working. The only snag we hit was that the pond leaked but she returned to lay a new liner and then we thought we had another leak, but the water was apparently escaping over the back of the rocks and underneath the liner. She returned about four times total, generally on a Friday, to examine the problem. She was committed to the project being completed to satisfaction. We did wish that she had been quicker to communicate with us on her follow-up visits and emails about the leak. The overall project was scheduled for two days and completed within one month because of the leak. We would definitely use her again because the end result is a lovely space that suits us to a tee and she will complete the project to satisfaction.

Called the phone number listed on website and spoke with the owner. She provided us with the email address so that we could send her our specs and a drawing of the job. Specs included masonry work and plant installation. Owner emailed with a glowing reply about the detailed specs and said she would "try" to come out for a look to provide an estimate. After repeated phone calls, she determined she actually was too busy to include this job at this time.

She has really good ideas and is creative. She is very easy to work with.

a dozen or more new plants, dug a trench for water run-off, re-do part of a dry-stack rock wall, pull out old overgrown plants, create gravel walk-way. Overall- excellent

Alexis, from Landscape Witch landscaped my front yard and hired all the service people to do the work. I was very happy w/the result. Our yard is much more attractive and we frequently have people stop and ask us who did the work for us. She found the right combination of bushes and flowers. She spent a lot of time finding out exactly what we wanted (like a low maintenance yard). She checked back frequently and made sure we were satisfied. When we lost three bushes in the summer heat, she replaced them, no questions asked. She's not the cheapest in town, but is a good value for the money. We will use her in the future.

We set up the appointment entirely via e-mail. (Some contractors don't do well over e-mail, so kudos there.) I forgot to give her my address, but she was resourceful enough to look it up and show up at the scheduled time. We walked around my yard and discussed various things for the better part of an hour, until I ran out of questions. I started to take action on her suggestions this weekend, and so far so good.

They were pretty highly rated on Angie's List and that is why we went with them. They paid a lot of attention to details, were very creative and very complete. We sure would use them again, if needed.

The project could not have gone better. We were able to communicate easily with Alexis throughout the entire process and we always knew what was happening. She personally choose each plant, sometimes going to quite a few nurseries to find what she wanted. She was personally involved with every aspect of the work. She was here to supervise any placement of flagstone and all plants. We are thrilled with the outcome. It turned out even better than we had imagined.