Armet's Landscape

As my new landscaping project begins with a different company, I want to share the awful experience I had with Armet’s landscaping. I will be brief as not to waste any more headspace in this name than I have already wasted. Within 4 weeks of planting the main area of the project, plants began to die. As I pulled the dead plants out I noticed shallow holes and dramatically cut root balls. An independent landscape architect came to do a consult and his concerns mirrored my own: inadequate soil prep, inadequately dug holes, cut root balls, and DG placed too heavily on top of the plants and right up to the plant crowns. What was Rick’s (the owner) response? I’m sorry you’re not happy. While about 80% of the plants in the main planting area died, you bet I wasn’t happy. I suggested Rick come see for himself the state of my yard. He never did. Credits I demanded were given but no real apology about the plant failure was given nor was a re-do was offered. Rick defended his crew’s work despite not being around the One Day they crammed in all planting. My advice? Take the time to fully vet anyone you hire and READ ALL THE REVIEWS, especially the negative ones. I wish I would have read more reviews and heeded the one from a former customer who asked, “You call this landscaping?” The plants shown below (which are thriving) were planted by a friend. Enough said.

We called Rick Armet for help in reinforcing a hillside that slid during the recent rains. He is so knowledgeable about the problem we had & he immediately laid out a plan & walked us thru it. His work crew is prompt & hard working & they showed up when Rick said they would. We truly appreciate that Rick made himself available to take our calls whenever we had questions. Rick & his crews have years of experience & are 100% dependable, which is not always an easy find these days. We can’t say enough wonderful things about this company!

We hired Armet Landscaping to perform a makeover on a portion of our property. I was hoping for some nice spaced plants with a variety of textures, colors and heights, however, what I got was very lackluster, un-imaginative and poor quality plants. Since we paid him in the near $10,000 range, we expected something for that value, however, it was way, way, way below expectations. He was going to leave some rotted old boards because he didn't want to grade the area around the boards, but luckily I had email proof that removing the old boards was part of the deal. I really had to work to get even semi-close to the value we paid. We were new to the area and should have asked around before choosing Armet. I understand now that the name isn't all that respected in the landscaping community. Now, in the summer after the "re-model" some of the very weak plants have revived, but 1/2 are just sick little twigs. Definitely NOT worth the money we paid.