Neighbors have been using them for 2 decades. Very professional and reliable family businessread more

Yelp 100 Challenge 2016 - Review 16 of 100…read more.. After realizing that two very overgrown trees on my father's property were (potentially) causing damage to piping and cement in his complex AND were a nuisance to the neighbors, I searched Yelp for places to contact to gather three estimates... * The first was with Bennett Landscaping around the corner: I was very unhappy with the entire process - I received returned correspondence much later than anticipated, the estimator showed up at 7am after being scheduled for an 8:30am appointment time despite saying I was available to meet earlier than that during the phone consultation, and it took two days to get an estimate emailed to me. Not cool! * The second was with Finley's in Torrance (thanks, Joan S, for your thorough review!). The phone conversation, consultant who provided an estimate after a thorough investigation of the property, emailed estimate I received that night (that matched what the consultant quoted), and follow up estimate for prices to consider in the event that my dad wanted to utlilize them for upkeep were amazingly efficient. The only down side - they are popular and needed a three week lead time to set an appointment. * International Tree Service was the only "mom and pop" / non-corporate estimate I sought. It has great reviews on Yelp and I wanted to get a variety of opinions before making my decision. I called the number on Yelp and received an answer that did not detail the name of the company. I introduced myself as a potential customer and asked if the number was for the business tied to it - Raul replied "yes" before telling me his name and asking how he could help me. We scheduled a consultation for two days later, and, by the time I saw Raul that Thursday, he was the breath of fresh air I needed after a long day of trying to work in between the consultations. Raul is a handsome young man in his early 20s who came off a little more timid in comparison to the first two estimators, but he's just polite and a sweetie. Once he got outside, he told my father and I what types of trees were there, asked questions about how to get the debris from the back to the front (there is no gate door), told us about his insurance and licensing, quoted an estimate ($50 more than Finley's), and - here's the clincher - he noticed a hummingbird nest I never had and said he would protect it so the mother could return to her eggs. I don't like birds of any kind (they always attack me - no joke), but I was impressed by his respect for nature! He was ready to return the next day to complete the job, but we scheduled to have him come the following Tuesday. The following Tuesday as I was waiting for Raul's scheduled 9am arrival, I realized it was trash day and the normally early trash and recycle trucks had not yet passed through. I called Raul to inform him and ask if he would be able to move his truck and equipment when the trash collectors arrived (I had no idea what type of truck and equipment he would be bringing and how much of the fire lane in the complex it would block). Not only did Raul and his business partner, Hugo, move out of the collectors' way, they moved my father's AND the neighbors bins for easier retrieval! Raul and business partner Hugo are young Latin tenders who have been in business for themselves for five years after previously working for a mutual friend's landscaping business. They decided to go into business for themselves and have been pretty successful ever since. Raul said Yelp and word of mouth helps a lot, but they would like to earn more business and new customers. They seem to work very well together - Raul seems to be more of the "face" of the business and would gather the debris from across the top of the fence before neatly stacking it to be fed to the wood chipper (I'm not sure what exactly that is called). Hugo was up in the trees smoothly and quickly sawing off sections of branches before handing them over to Raul on the other side of the fence. In my opinion, here are the only "help needed" areas for this partnership: * I didn't like that I had to call for another reason the day of the appointment to find out that they would be late. It wasn't very late, but it would have been nice if they called to inform me instead of me finding out the way I did. * This business currently accepts cash and checks - no credit cards. Other than these two points, I would definitely recommend International Tree Service with Raul and Hugo - especially for those who like to support local smaller, independent businesses. They were the most responsive and most engaged, and they did a wonderful job of clearing up the back patio area!

Very unprofessional. Overcharged double. Both trees are dead. Will be filing lawsuit.read more

California Tree Specialists came out on a Monday afternoon to remove a large tree that fell in my…read morebackyard Sunday evening. I contacted the company Sunday night and they came out the following day. The crew removed the tree, including the stump and roots, even covered it with mulch, all in a day. This company is professional, efficient, clean and best of all extremely affordable. Highly recommend!

Estevan and his crew came out to trim my tree and did an excellent job and were sure to pick up all…read morethe trimmings on my property and my neighbors. I would recommend them to a friend.

These guys are amazing. They were so professional and followed my instructions to a T, all while…read moretaking care of the plants and making them so much healthier. I couldn't recommend them more!

After going missing for 4 days, we finally spotted our cat perched high above in a tree…read more Unfortunately, we found out that neither the firefighters nor the special ops unit of our local shelter was going to be able to help out until morning. Thankfully, within 45 minutes after speaking to Cynthia, her crew was on location ready to go. They were cordial, professional and very effective. We are forever grateful for saving our cat's life!! I would recommend their services to anyone needing tree climbing, trimming services! Five Star Company and Five Star people! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

While it has been a couple years since they did the work at our home, we are still so dissatisfied…read morewith their work done. The biggest complaint was our big and hearty Japanese persimmon tree in our backyard. At the time they landscaped our backyard, the tree had so many beautiful little persimmons growing into what appeared to be another year of more persimmons than we could handle! My mom (now deceased) planted that tree over 50 years ago and we enjoyed sharing the fruit with so many friends who loved them! SGV Gardeners put mulch in the planter where the persimmon tree was. NOTE: Mulch in that planter was NOT on our contract! We watched the leaves on the tree start to wilt and die along with all of the fruit. Shockingly, the entire tree died in a very short time. We found on the internet that you should not put mulch up to the trunk of a persimmon tree or it would kill it. It was so heartbreaking to lose something so special and beautiful, not to mention something that held such tremendous sentimental value!!! In addition, they planted our hydrangeas on the opposite side of the backyard (full sun throughout the day) and they shriveled up and died. Ling mistakenly sent an email to me, intending it for Cesar, the man she works with. The message said, "I got her to close for..." and listed the dollar amount. It sounded like a "gotcha". They definitely WERE NOT worth the price paid. They also damaged an area of the finish we had just completed on our beautiful planters. Thankfully my husband noticed and pointed it out. They initially tried to deny damaging the planter but thank goodness I had had just taken pictures of the planter prior to SGV starting so they had to accept responsibility. We definitely DO NOT RECOMMEND them. I would score them -10 (negative) if I could!

At first they did a good job. We were set up for Tuesday service the Gardner would not show that…read moreday sometimes would let me know he wouldn't show most of time it was Wednesday or Thursday. Last week he never showed left messages he never responded so I found another gardener. I would not recommend this company.

Rey and his team took such great care of the trees at my moms house. She got a couple of estimates…read moreand decided to go with Native Landscape because of how responsive and reliable they were. Rey was in communication with me the entire day and was there on sight helping his crew. They were on time, efficient, & cleaned up after themselves. I was very grateful to have Rey and his team on my property to take down one tree completely and shape the other 3 trees that had a lot of dead branches. They are all very hard working and informative! We will definitely be doing business with the native landscape team again in the future. Appreciate the best customer service and help!

Great service. I am a repeat customer. I have use Rey and his team for my palm tree trim and then…read moreback yard clean up. Honest and great service.

Victor gave me the most reasonable quote. His folks were on time and did an excellent job actually…read moredid more work than I expected for same price. I would definitely use them again as I have hired them for my monthly service.

I was renting this house to a tenant, and when he moved out I wanted to change the backyard to have…read moresomething with 0 maintenance. They sent me a draft on a paper with an idea, and then they executed quickly. Very happy with the end result

I wanted to update this and add that back in April we invited Fil out to give us a quote on a new…read morewood fence and automatic gate for the front yard. From start to finish he did an amazing job. The fence constantly gets compliments and knowing that Fil had the best combination of great price and quality materials. We had a few other companies come out and they either had over-the-top quotes or tried to sell us on cheap low-quality materials. I would highly recommend Fil and he's so easy to work with! Thanks again Fil.

I do not recommend this company. I hired Fil to replace the…read morelandscaping at my house in July-August, 2020. His crew was great and they did a good job. A couple months after they finished many of the plants died. I sent photos and asked Fil to replace them. He told me we needed to wait until it was warm again. I contacted him in May, when he said he would replace the dead plants. Nothing happened in June even though I contacted him again. Nothing happen in July, so I contacted him again in August and asked for a refund so that I could just buy the plants and replace them myself. On August 13 he said he needed a week and then he would send me the refund. It is now September 14 and I still have dead plants (more have died in the meantime), no refund and not a word from Fill. After I posted this review Fil contacted me and did follow through on providing a refund. As I mentioned above, his crew is professional.