Urban Landscape

Believe the one star reviews, have never met a person so difficult to work with. So many better choices out there.

Be very careful before ever hiring this company. We met with Garrett Mccorkle for about 2 hours on a Saturday for our house in Covenant Hills. Since we had just built the house, we had no landscaping in our front or backyard. Our lot was over 19,000 sq ft, so the project was going to be at least $300K+. Garrett was not only late to our appointment, but then spent the whole 2 hours never writing down ONE thing. Urban Landscape had been referred to us by our builder, so we thought it was a reputable company. When we told Garrett at the end of the meeting that we wanted to proceed with his company drawing up plans, he said that the plans would cost $3,700. When I asked him who to make the check payable to, he said make it to him PERSONALLY. That should have been my first clue that this transaction was not going to go smoothly. When we got the plans about 6 weeks later, it was very noticeable that Garrett did not take any notes at our meeting. We had a hedge in front of one of our sliding glass doors, a BBQ right outside another sliding glass...I guess so the smoke could conveniently blow directly into the house. The whole plans were a disaster and something we could have drawn up ourselves on a cocktail napkin. When we called to try and rectify the plans, we could never get a hold of Garrett for weeks. Once we did, we expressed our displeasure with the fact that the plans did not include anything that we had actually discussed at our 2 hour meeting. When Garrett said, "What would you like to do?", we said we would like to return his useless plans back to him and we want our money back. He said that he would have someone pick up the plans and drop off a check. Needless to say, they picked up the plans and to this day, even though we tried for 6 months and even after talking to Nels and forwarding him the e-mail that Garrett stated he would pickup the plans and drop off a check, we have never received a dime back from them. I know Garrett and Nels will write a rebuttal back, saying they have never done business with me (like I have a spare 30 minutes to makeup facts about their company and my transaction), but if they took the time to actually service their clients and stop writing lengthy rebuttals, I assume their business would be a lot more successful. At the time, we had 20 new homes built in our area and we told everyone about our experience with Urban Landscape, so because they were so shortsighted in not returning our $3,700, they missed out on bidding on millions of dollars of contracts...that seems like a bad business decision to me and all you should know about this company!!

Five stars without hesitation. My wife and I bought one of forty-eight newly developed homes in Huntington Beach and we we're one of last to get our landscaping done. We've waited to see how our neighbors were doing theirs, and we wanted make sure to be different and unique and also took our time to find the right Landscape designer. After meeting several potential contractors we settled with Urban Landscape for several reasons. One, was going through their portfolio, we liked mostly everything they've designed and executed. Two, the first meeting we had with our designer, he took down every wish item we asked for and didn't give us any push back on what was possible or not and was willing to take the challenge on some unique requests. Three, our designer was readily available to almost every time we've reached out to him during the initial design phase. Lastly, may not be the case for everyone, but shortly after our meeting, we got back our landscape design plan and we're so happy with it we almost made no changes to it, only changes that we've made were to just keep to things within budget. Although, things did take a bit longer to finish, it was understandable with some of the things we've asked for that we both had to work though to get what my wife and I wanted. Overall very satisfied, highly recommended.

Urban Landscaping proved to us that our vision and their expertise could be brought together to develop a landscape that we absolutely are thrilled with. Garett took plans that we had already had developed and showed us much better ideas and solutions that we never thought of. His passion for landscaping and delivering a First Class project was evident from the very beginning. Cost are always a concern, but Garett provided a quote that was as competitive as anyone and kept within the budget. We started from a blank, barren dirt yard to an incredible landscape that friends and neighbors all compliment us on. Garett always returned calls or texts within minutes when we needed to reach him. He was diligent in the permits and working with our HOA which they tend to be difficult at best. The time estimate to do the project was fairly close to his original estimate though the inspections slowed us down a bit but these are usually out of his control as you are aware. Considering how much handcut stone work was done, it was within our expectations. He built a custom spa, firepit, BBQ island, lighting, irrigation, hardscape of stone, etc etc. The spa is one of a kind and is stunning to look at and use. I will post some of the pictures here. His workers really worked with great care and were on time and cleaned up the site everyday before leaving. They were always attentive to requests if we saw something that we wanted to tweak. His workers are not day labors; but guys he uses all the time and are reliable which isn't always the case with landscapers as you may be aware. We love to sit and just marvel at the work he did and we are proud to have a design that blows away all our neighbors who installed mostly cookie cutter designs. Even our developers always stop by our home to show perspective buyers what can be done. We cannot say enough good things about Urban and Garett. We would use him again in a split second. We welcome his potential clients to come over for a visit and he can always count on us for a reference.

Garrett did an excellent job with our design. He's professional ,creative and easy to work with. Would highly recommend working with him If you want to create something unique and exciting

Garett, Nels and the whole team of craftsmen at Urban Landscape are nonpareil. As a designer who has followed Urban's work since 2000 I have been impressed by their ability to always artfully interpret and execute any design style from the transitional Gothic Tuscan look of their offerings in the early 2000's to the refined envelope-pushing sleak modernity of their current compositions for today. Garett is a true artist who cares immensely about how his projects turn out; from small scale to big estate- all their projects are handled with care resulting in impeccable results. It should be noted that Urban is NOT a wham-bam slam-it-in company. When you hire them, expect quality and care over speed. You will be glad you did when it's all said and done:)

Urban Landscape has done 2 yards for my family...their designs are done to match your home & the surrounding landscape while reflecting your personal style. The attention to detail is second to none, they are not there to just do the job, they are there to absolutely give your home the 'wow factor' you want, and they have achieved that twice for me and my family. I have recommended them to several of my friends, and being in business for myself, a referral is the ultimate compliment. If you are considering a makeover or starting from scratch, I highly recommend them. Top notch, high end work.

Garrett with Urban Landscape was very professional and excellent to work with. He did beautiful, quality work and I couldn't be happier with the outcome. I would highly recommend Urban Landscape to my friends and neighbors.

Garrett McCorckle and Nels, Derrick came to my home and took a check for $4.000.00 The check was cashed the same day and we never received anything from them. They disappeared. It has been almost two years and we still have not been able to get in contact with anyone from Urban Landscape.

Frustrating to work with. Nels never returned phone calls, answered emails. From our first drawing of our plan, the important "wants" were left out. Obviously, he did not listen. After meeting with him many times, we continued to give him the benefit of the doubt. Yet, 'I'll touch base with you tomorrow" turned into weeks later of us trying to reach him. Plans were revised twice and still didn't include what we had asked for. Very disappointing but lesson learned. Be very careful of this company. Our greater than $100,000 business was NOT wanted and was made pretty obvious.

Urban Landscape did a fantastic job hired a small service to my patio and were absolutely fantastic and profissinais. I am very happy with the quality of work, professionalism and spectacular commitment. Urban Landscape is really fantastic.

I could not be happier with Urban Landscape and would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a landscape project over $100k. Tom from Urban (in the San Diego area) was responsive from day 1, and continues to be as responsive to this day despite the project being over a month complete. I received pricing from 3 companies, all of which were relatively in-line with each other. Urban was slightly on the higher side but I strongly believe the end result wouldn't have been the same. Additionally, I was never "nickel and dimed" for minor tweaks - not once in 5 months. If there was a significant change or addition, there was an agreed upon change order - all done with transparency. The crew assigned to our project was great as well. Six hard working guys who took a ton of pride in doing things right the first time, or tweaking things to accommodate the evolution of the design from paper to reality. There was not a list of milestones and deadlines, but the overarching deliverable estimate was met. The team was never idle - everyone knew what to do and worked the entire day for 5 straight months. Urban treated them with respect as well, a normal ~9 hour work day with a full lunch break, no weekends, holidays off - good work shows in work done by happy employees. The subcontractors selected by Urban also seemed to carry the same level of pride and respect. In any project, you are always selecting what is most important to you... Cheaper, Better, or Faster. If "Better" is the most important to you of the 3, then select Urban Landscape.