Better Landscape

Great one stop shop for backyard remodel.
Cecilia did an amazing job designing our new backyard, Steve and his crew built it well and without surprises.
It was a fairly large project and we are very happy with the result.
I highly recommend them.

We hired Steve and Cécilia to remodel our front and backyard. They were very knowledgeable and professional. We are super happy with the results! Communication was excellent and their crews awesome! We highly recommend this company.

Steve and his crews are amazing to work with. His boss Cecilia (who happens to be his wife :D) is in charge of the design and plants while Steve would supervise the construction.
We were finishing up with the remodel of the house and were looking around for a landscape company for our backyard. After interviewing a handful of companies, Better Landscape was our choice due to the reasonable quote and good recommendation from our cousin.
For the first stage of the project, we just wanted to have the concrete poured. We were pretty happy with how the result turned out. They didn't just pour the concrete, they got everything ready if we would ever need to run irrigation or electricity in the future. We definitely got more than what was on the scope of the project.
After selling my kidney, I decided to take the next step for the backyard so we called up Steve again. This time around, the project is a lot more involving compared to the previous job. It required building a retainer wall, deck, artificial turf, plants, running irrigation and electricity. Cecilia took our design and made suggestion on adding benches and added some elevation to the retainer wall. She also took the plant list that we had and work with the nursery to provide us an update plant list based on our budget.
Being at home due to the covid, I had the chance to see things progressed everyday. Steve would come almost everyday, sometime couple times a day, to check on the project. The crews seem to get along pretty well with Steve. We got to talk a lot and he is one of the funniest people that I met.
The job has ended last week and we LOVE how it turned out. Again, the team went beyond the scope of the backyard by cleaning up the side yard so everything would just look good.
They definitely earn our trust for future project and we highly recommend Better Landscape to everyone.
Please see the attached photos for the before and after.

We recently got our first home and desperately needed work done to our yard. Initially we were not ready as we had no clue how much (in reality) the renovation of a small yard would be.

We got our first peak of a price earlier this year from Better Landscape when we met with Sharon, who was at the time the landscape designer. We had our own design planned and ... we found out that we needed to save a lot of money. We had met with several other landscaping businesses for quotes and our dream of being able to enjoy our yard became dimmer as the price tag just kept on getting higher. This fall, we finally were ready to get something done and we were again getting shopping around for quotes and came up with a more simplified design that we could afford.

What made us ultimately choose Better Landscape over the others, was Steve's continuous follow ups and willingness to work with something that we could afford in our budget. After being given quotes, he was the only person (besides Black Diamond - who gave us a ridiculously insane quote) that kept in touch after our design changed several times and quotes were given. We liked that he kept in touch even when we were quiet and felt that he really wanted our business.

Steve and his crew did a great job to our yard and finished within the time frame given. Definitely would recommend and would use again.

We bought our house a few years ago and have not been able to do a thing with the yard since. We closed our curtains and called it a day. The weeds were so tall and the amount of work was too overwhelming for us as new home owners.

We had recently saved up enough to finally get started on our backyard and after doing a lot of research we had better landscape do the job.

In just 10 days of hard work, they turned our useless "meadow" into a beautiful backyard just awaiting our personal final touches.

We are beyond happy with our yard and finally feel like we can actually enjoy it!

Thank you to better landscape and their amazing, kind, respectful and helpful crew!

Just a great company from start to finish. My wife and I wanted to complete a fairly minor re-landscaping project and we reached out to Better Landscape based upon a recommendation. So, Cecilia and Steve stopped over and evaluated our objectives, offered great input, and provided a timeline and budget. We approved both and we were then off to the races. Our job consisted of new irrigation, lighting, plants and ground cover. Also included a little needed design, and Cecilia was super to work with. The team showed up when they said they would. Left the look of the place clean each afternoon when they departed and at the end of the project, everything worked perfectly.

We'd recommend Better Landscapes quite easily and without hesitation. They were creative, hard workers, easy to collaborate with and fair. You can't ask anymore from anyone. If you are in need of really great service, call Better Landscapes. You'll be happy you did.

BL just finished our outdoor bbq. I am beside myself at how perfect it has turned out. Their two craftsmen were friendly, professional and meticulous. They took their time to do it right. They went far beyond "basic service".
Hire BL, you won't be sorry!!!

Steve and his crew have done a great job with our weekly yard service. I switched to him after seeing the beautiful work he did on a full yard landscaping installation job including a pool at my friends home. I was frustrated with our previous yard service as they took forever to respond to me. Steve gets back to me right away and is very helpful. His crew troubleshot some non functioning irrigation and did a large installation of sand/DG/mulch quickly and efficiently. It is really hard to find a great landscaping company but he is it!

This is my first review, which tells you something about the quality of Steve's work.

When Steve first started, he was amazing. He did a great job and was fast at responding. However, the more that I paid him (nearing completion date), the more distant he became.

I paid him the last payment for my yard three months ago, and he still has not correctly fixed the last portion of my yard. I am at the point that I will be reporting him to the state.

I have waited almost 3 years before writing this review as I wanted to see how Steve's work holds against the elements of nature. And I am glad to report there is nothing negative that I have to say.

I had hired Steve and his crew to remove existing concrete slabs from our frontyard, put in pavers, install a drip irrigation system, build a bench structure over some above-ground copper pipes and build & tile a semi-circular concrete stepped platform. Steve's quote was above the average of what I received from other contractors, but I chose Better Landscape 'cause I liked how Steve kept the conversation to the point and showed me how he could apply his expertise to get the job done better than others.

Once the work started, it moved along at a good pace and was wrapped up in the time range that Steve gave me at the time of quote. The guys who put in the pavers were meticulous! I remember seeing them take out several pavers they had just installed because they got the design I gave them a bit off. The pavers along the wall edges were cut precisely, and barring one spot, there has been no subsidence. The crew cleaned up well at the end of the job.

I do feel that Steve could have done a better job with communication while the work progressed. We had no idea what was going to be done the next day. For e.g., I was lucky enough to be around when the pump for the drip irrigation was being installed. The crew was going to install one underground and I wanted it above the ground. Also, his quote for the drip irrigation system was expensive.

Overall, I am glad and very satisfied that I chose Better Landscape for the job.