I have one experience with the Landscapers at Charvet's. This was a couple of years before Katrina, but I think it's a worthy example of the opeastions there because I dealt directly with the owner, Ms. Charvet on Clearview. My budget was $2k, which I thought was decent for the work required--only new plantings (amelia bushes and a small fruit tree), nothing removed. The ""line"" of the garden was refined, so a few mats of new sod were required. The sod was in poor condition when it arrived. I questioned it, but went ahead and accepted it because I didn't know my rights at the time and felt that I could nurse it back to health anyway. The only other beef I have was that a year later when I asked Ms. Charvet if someone could come by and remove the metal posts securing the trees (these are jammed in by machine and impossible to remove otherwise), she made feel as if it was my job and not hers to do, and that she was doing me a big favor by coming by to remove them.
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