Florus Services Company

Florus Services is a one-person landscaping and property-maintenance operation out of Everett, run by its founder, Garvens Florus, who the company's own site says grew the business out of an interest in architectural design and sustainable property care. Its reviews — on Google, Thumbtack, and directly to the company — go back to 2018, and every one of the 18 collected here is five stars. What stands out isn't scale, it's consistency of contact. Several reviewers describe using Garvens for years without incident: a 2023 review describes a four-to-five-year relationship where landscaping simply "gets taken care of," and a 2022 review describes roughly four years of maintenance with steady communication and fair pricing. A property manager's 2023 review adds a specific detail worth noting for anyone managing a rental — Garvens texts tenants directly before arriving so they aren't caught off guard by someone in the yard. Response speed comes up often, across very different years. In a 2018 review, a homeowner said Garvens mowed extremely overgrown grass the day after being contacted; a 2020 review, written in the middle of the COVID lockdown, describes the same quick turnaround — a call, then a look at the yard the next day, then the work done within days. Another 2020 review, about an overgrown garden after a move-in, adds that Garvens researched the specific plants before deciding how to treat them, rather than treating the whole bed the same way. On the wider platforms the picture holds: Thumbtack shows a 4.9-star rating from 64 reviews (95% five-star) with Top Pro status from 2019 and a background check on file, and Google shows 5 stars from 25 ratings. A small share of the Thumbtack ratings — 3%, roughly two reviews — are one-star, though nothing about what went wrong is in the written reviews collected here. Before calling: this is a small operation built around lawn care, yard cleanup, weeding and seasonal work, with cleaning services — carpet cleaning, common-area trash management — offered mainly to multi-unit and commercial properties per its own listings, so confirm which side of the business fits your job. Recent written activity is light, so ask about current availability and turnaround before counting on a fast start.