“Landscaping recs? A little desperate…”

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“Dear PoPville,

I saw you had a post in January about someone looking to redo their backyard from concrete to landscaping but our little HOA is looking for someone to do yard maintenance throughout the year and we are STRUGGLING so I thought I’d see if the PoPville community could help. We have a small front and back yard in Brookland (the back is literally just a tiny patch of grass and two small patches of mulch) and had a landscaper for a couple of years who was inexpensive and did a fine job but then he just randomly ghosted us at the end of last summer, like actually fell off the face of the planet.

We then found a small local company which seemed pretty good, and reasonably priced for what we needed, after a dozen calls elsewhere that went either unreturned or wouldn’t work in NE or were WAY outside our budget. This company has now proven not so great – not doing the backyard with the front yard, keeping incorrect records of services rendered, trying to charge $300-400 extra for leaf removal when we have a single tree on one tiny part of the yard, and worst of all, being rude, unprofessional, and not identifying who we’re speaking with when we call or exchange emails so they can’t keep things straight, and the list goes on…

Does anyone have a decent, reliable, professional landscaper who does basic services on a regular basis who will come to Northeast DC, and isn’t outrageously expensive? I don’t know why that seems like such an impossible thing to ask for!“