Salazar's Landscaping & Gardening

Unless you want to be overcharged and underserved, do not hire Salazar Gardening. They will promise you everything and deliver nothing. The first consultation is impressive. They send out the "A Team" and talk about all the wonderful things they are going to do to whip your garden into shape and keep it that way. They stress how proactive they are and how they are going to keep you in the loop about everything. Then it is all downhill from there. The A Team never shows up again; you get the B, C or D team for your weekly visit. Despite being a well organized gardening service, with email and automatic billing, these guys couldn't or wouldn't do the most basic tasks. They never deadheaded or pruned the roses or told us when they had fungus and were dying, they never took dead leaves off the plants, they never told us when plants were dead and needed replacing, nor did they tell us when animals were killing plants or when sprinklers weren't working. We had to point out absolutely everything to them, ask them to do the same thing week after week, and buy all the products they should have had to make our garden flourish. Their inactivity and lack of receptivity was staggering. Every plant they planted died, as did many that were planted before they took over. And whenever we asked them to do anything beyond mow, blow and go, they pointed to the pesky little contract they made us sign at the beginning (you have been forewarned) that basically said that everything beyond showing up and breathing costs extra. While a contract with a gardener struck us as weird, we signed it because we were desperate and did not read the fine print (our fault), which does everything to keep them from doing work, and nothing to protect you, the consumer. Funny how these guys are right on top of things when it comes to chasing down their money, but ever so forgetful when it comes to doing anything and everything that has to do with gardening. And let's not get started on their attitude. Don't waste your time or money on Salazar.