Cottonwood Landscapes LLC

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We worked with Dan at Cottonwood Landscapes starting May2015 through October2015. Our yard was a bit tricky because the back yard is a hill that slopes in to our home, so our goal was to ensure that all moisture would drain away from our house. Dan ensured us that this would be an easy issue to tackle. We ended up paying $6,000 over what his initial bid came in at! He left permit costs out of the bid claiming he did not know permits would be necessary. Dan never did his due diligence to find out if permits were needed. So when it came to the permits it was entirely up to me to secure them. I spent over 6 hours at the city figuring out what documentation I needed & who I needed to meet with in order to secure these permits. I had to measure out the walkway entirely by myself & draw up a diagram showing the city where the walkway would be in regards to the waterline. I ended up having to go to 2 DRT meetings because during the first meeting I did not have what I needed. I am not a landscape expert so of course I wasn't aware of all the documentation required. I had to get blueprints of the walkway plan from Dan's architect to present to the city & after all that work I did by myself at the city building I ended up having to pay Dan for the work of the architect. Please keep in mind I asked the architect to meet me at the meeting and he showed up 20 minutes late & missed the whole thing, but Dan charged me for his time anyway. Dan also didn't include the cost to move dirt, which is strange since our main concern was moving dirt so that moisture would not run in to our home, he claimed we opted out of dirt removal? & when it came to our patio Dan's plans only included 2 walls instead of the 3 it needed for completion. Dan completely left out the 3rd wall so we had an entire wall of dirt falling into our patio since the paver stones were not stacked up in a wall formation as they had been on the other 2 sides. Dan also did not include the Rainbird sprinkler control dial in the bid. He included a sprinkling system yet charged us an extra $300 to put in a dial so that we could actually turn the sprinklers on. You would think the dial would be included in the sprinkler system but it isn't. He also apparently found the cheapest concrete company to work with for our front walkway. they dug the walkway out 6 inches too close to a fire hydrant, which required them to come back & do the job twice, while leaving excess dirt for us to deal with. While pouring the patio they damaged our driveway & we had to fight to get them to come back & correct the issue. They also completely over poured the walkway leaving edges that were not smooth, but instead had piles of hard cement connected to it. The concrete company also hid mounds of of extra cement underneath dirt in our front yard, which we found while shoveling ....Trying to remove the dirt that Dan didn't include in his contract. Another strange thing about working w/ Dan is every time I would write him a check i would make it out to Cottonwood Landscapes. Every time Dan would send these checks back requesting that I make them out to him personally, Dan Cloward. The only explanation I can think of for this is he was hiding income from the government or from his employees. In his contract, Dan promised that our project would be substantially completed within 2 weeks from the start date. The start date was supposed to be July 24. Dan missed the start date by a week & our project did not get finished until October. You can do the math! Dan seemed like such a nice guy when we first met him, but Dan became unresponsive after we signed w/ him. The only time he answered my calls was when I called him blocked, even though I called him unblocked seconds before. Do yourself a favor go with someone who seems a bit more expensive who will get the job done correctly and on time. It will save you time & $!

We are very impressed with Cottonwood Landscapes, we had some ideas and they took them and totally enhanced them to the perfect and most relaxing yard we could have imagined. The work was done in a professional manner and worked with our schedules every step of the way. Would recommend their work to anyone looking to enhance their yard. Love the large patio cover they constructed and the partially sunken hot tub is awesome.

We were thoroughly impressed with Cottonwood Landscapes and the work they completed in our yard. Not only did they help us design the backyard of our dreams, they helped us enhance every aspect of our home's landscape. Most importantly they came in ON BUDGET which is very important to us. They worked with us personally to create a yard custom to our wants and perfect for our family. We always thought that finishing our yard would take a lot of time and energy, but working with Cottonwood made the whole process simple and smooth. Our yard was finished in record time! Each employee treated our yard with respect and again, we were so pleased with how quick everyone worked. On one occasion we were meeting with the owner and he looked at one of the trees they had just planted the day before and told his site foreman that they needed to dig it up and turn it a quarter turn so that it would look the best from my patio. We hadn't noticed the issue with the tree and probably never would have but we loved the fact that they were so detail oriented. Their expert knowledge left us feeling confident in our decisions and we know we received a quality product. We would definitely recommend Cottonwood Landscapes to anyone that wants quality work, expert advice and a company that goes above and beyond expectations.

They do a very good job i'm loving my pond and waterfall !!!

Cottonwood was willing to take on our yard remodel when many other contractors were uninterested because our backyard is not heavy equipment friendly. Cottonwood replaced a brick-paved sunken patio and walkways with pavers and block walls. They revised the sprinklers to work with the new layout and landscaped including a lot of sod patching. This was all done with shovels and wheelbarrows - what a job! They also stripped, filled and re-sodded our front yard to get rid of ring fungus, but they were able to use heavy equipment for that. Although Cottonwood told us up front, we were surprised at the amount of removal and replacement that this job entailed. Our yard looked like a war zone for a while, but they cleaned up every evening and left our cul-de-sac open for the neighbors. Not an easy task when there was a trailer, a heavy tractor and four or five large piles of materials out there. Bottom line; when they finished, everything looked better than we had imagined! The paver and block work is some of the best we have seen even though there were some difficult angles and cutting involved. The landscaping looks like new professional landscaping, which is what it is. We will have to see how well it grows in. I can say that they used an interesting variety of plants that we would not have thought of and we like that. They cleaned everything up at the end, including washing the street. They finished on time! Their bid was higher than we expected, but after seeing the process and finished product we can say they certainly earned it. We would recommend Cottonwood Landscaping to anyone who wants the job done right.

Re-landscaped the front yard of a house I own. This was my parents old house and the yard was not in bad shape, but I wanted it to look really nice in their memory and to honor them. My father always kept up the yard very well. This included pavers on a front porch, some lawn, planting trees preparing beds and planting lots of perennials and sprinkler system repairs.



I was overseas when the job was done and was sent pictures when completed. I was shocked when Isaw the pictures. After $15000 the yard looked worse than before. Many of the plants were in poor shape and very dried out, some dead and dying. The trees planted were mere sticks of one-half inch diameter. No mulch was used. When I complained about this not being included in the bid I was told it was not standard practice and I would need to shell out another $500 for mulch. I believe this was dishonest method of creating add-on's and mulch certainly is a standard practice in any landscaping. The plant selection and design was poor. There was no follow-up after the job was completed to ensure sprinklers were well adjusted. The company has been pretty unresponsive in the year since and many emails have been unanswered or involved repeated attempts to get a response. The beds were not well prepared and the following spring the beds are all completely choked by weeds and lawn grass that was not thoroughly removed.

Made an appointment to get work done. Came out gave estimate and never followed up to do the work. Must have so much business they do not need any more.

After receiving a quote from this company, I was shocked at the mark up. It was almost 300% on all services. The only deal was the plants. Complete waste of time...