Earthscapes

Suzanne and her team at Earthscapes have worked their magic on three of our properties in Los Osos for decades. My husband taught upper division Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly after having worked with an international firm for 40 years. Suzanne was one of his favorite students. When it came time to landscape our home, he called Suzanne. Recently Suzanne designed and installed two major areas around our home. It required some fairly fancy footwork of getting huge boulders into an area with very little access. The two yard areas look fabulous! To make the project even more challenging, the property is on the south end of Morro Bay ON the water so we have winds, salt air, and dare I mention deer and gophers. But gopher baskets seemed to have solved that problem and a little deer repellent seems to be keeping the deer in other yards nearby. I really appreciate Suzanne's willingness to listen and discuss ideas. I researched plant materials and she was able to get all of the ones that will grow in our climate zone. Her design concept was unique, practical and really beautiful. I love how she understands negative and positive space, colors and textures and is willing to work with a client who is actively involved in the process. Another feature of our landscape is a section with 75 roses. She understands what they need to thrive, even in our coastal environment, and has the patience to care for them as if they were her own. I highly recommend Suzanne Morrison and Earthscapes of Los Osos.

Earthscapes performed completely unreliable, unresponsive and unmotivated work to our community housing district. I had no intention of posting a review until reading their response to the previous reviewer...it is a dishonest attempt to publicly save face. Suzanne claims they were restricted in the quality of work they could perform according to the contract, that she’s totally open to communication and implies that Earthscapes would want to improve. Here are the facts: 1. Earthscapes contract with our district was not based on hourly work. In fact, there is no mention of hourly work. The entire contract lists specific jobs and how often they are to be performed. These jobs were routinely ignored. 2. To give Earthscapes a chance at improving, we tried to contact Suzanne (phone calls and emails) numerous times over the course of a year. Not one call or email was replied to. 3. One month before the contract ended, before we decided how to proceed, Earthscapes decided they did not want to rebid our contract. While reading Suzanne’s response to the previous reviewer, consider...Instead of taking pride in their work and being open to communication (like she claims), Earthscapes decided to leave our district looking like the pictures I have posted.

Earthscapes turned our yard that was formerly an eye sore in our neighborhood to the feature of this years garden show. Also, this was the first in thirty years that our run off didn't flood the neighbors. We live at the bottom of 2 hills and across from a dirt road that turns into a small lake when it rains, so this was a major issue that Earthscapes solved with skill and great artistry. They also got rid of an invasive type of grass that we were unable to solve in spite of all our many attempts. Though there was a bit of a wait for them, they are worth the wait!