Juan's Complete Gardening

Oct 2022

The driver of this work truck was driving completely reckless on the road and while they are gardeners and not professional drivers, I’m sure their driving reflects their work ethic.

Aug 2021

Juan and his team did a fantastic job on my backyard renovation. I can't say enough good things about Juan and would highly recommend him for any landscaping work. Mine was a major backyard renovation. We live in the hills of Belmont, which means to even access our backyard, you had to climb up a steep hill from our side yard. Half of our backyard was made up of a large hill, leaving us with little usable space. We wanted to remove the hill in our backyard, put up a new retaining wall (the old retaining wall has been there since the 60s and contains toxic materials), and install artificial turf. We've gotten a handful of quotes before being referred to Juan. Some folks quoted us double the price Juan gave, some had no experience doing such major renovations, and others just flat-out refused to do such hard work. Juan was knowledgeable and responsive, did not illegally require half of the payment up-front just to get on his schedule, and we felt more comfortable given that he was referred to us by our gardener (we've heard plenty of horror stories where contractors took the money and left the project unfinished, so reliability is #1 for us). We were able to get on Juan's schedule the next week. Juan and his team worked really hard, Monday through Saturday. This was really some of the toughest work imaginable: They have to use jack hammers and various hand-held tools to remove a hill made out of stone, then chisel the remaining hill to make it straight and leveled for the new retaining wall. Because all the houses here are built so closely together, backhoes and dump trucks could not access our yard. Juan's team had to use wheelbarrows to haul out all the concrete and rocks out by going down our steep side yard hill. Likewise, all the heavy wooden posts, retaining wall planks, bags of cement, all had to be manually carried up our side yard hill. Juan did the job perfectly and finished in one month. He didn't cut any corners in order and continued working diligently until the job was fully finished. He really went above and beyond by removing as much of the hill as possible to give us the biggest backyard space we could get. Our yard is beautiful! I look forward to working with him again on our next project.

Mar 2021

Juan and his crew of 4-5 people did pavers, backyard gates, irrigation for areas all around our house in San Mateo, it was a fairly big landscaping project and we love the end result. We got several bids, and Juan's was very reasonable and came multiple times before signing the contract to scope out the details during our house remodel and giving us excellent suggestions we ended up using. They were super quick excavating the concrete all around the house. He was very responsive and handled all the little and big things during the process. We have high expectations and they were really accommodating when things needed to be redone, eg. changing the height of the side gate, adding more irrigation lines. We were skeptical when Juan suggested adding a short border wall to keep the dirt from flowing towards the house, but it ended up looking real nice and keeping the backyard much cleaner. Juan always gave his honest opinions and saved us the unnecessary cost for hiring a stucco guy for fixing up this one part of the wall.