We used Fajardo's Landscaping (Jefferson and his father as well as extra workers on one occasion). The first time Jefferson did not follow my spouse's instructions (we noticed he does not take notes when you provide instructions and seems not to remember) and the stone was placed in the wrong area. We gave him a pass, paid for more stone, and tried again. We recently hired him again and when he did not seem to remember what we asked him to do, we sent explicit instructions via text. He was supposed to 1) create a shallow rubber mulch area; 2) top off mulch in other areas; 3) pull weeds in our beds (that was a disaster as the weeds came roaring back in less than a week even though we repeatedly asked they pull them by the roots - that has never happened with any other landscaping company we have hired - and they even just skipped some of the beds); 4) clean the frog pond (another disaster - it has never been left with so much leaves and debris in it with any other landscaper - I have to clean it again myself now); and 5) the worst part is that we purchased a Cherry Tree, gave explicit instructions how to plant it even though we should not have had to because this is a landscaping company (with root top slightly - 1 inch - above ground, with leaf grow and mulch, which we purchased). A week later I noticed the tree was dying, so I notified Jefferson shortly thereafter and asked him if he planted it correctly. His response was a non-response. The dying tree did not make sense - it was beautiful when it was planted - so we dug the tree up ourselves and found the top of the root ball approximately 6 inches below ground. WHY? Fajardo does not know how to properly plant a tree? I notified Jefferson - no response. I notiried him repeatedly and asked for a refund for the tree - nothing else - just the tree. No response. We would never hire Fajardo again. They do blow leaves well. But, we paid them $1500 for labor, purchased all mulch, leaf grow, and the tree ourselves. Also, the shallow bed was also supposed to be devoid of grass and within a week, grass was growing all through it, so I have had to take on that chore of pulling up grass that should have been taken care of my Jefferson. Our observation is that his dad works hard, Jefferson not so much. read more