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Garden Tech is Bob Trainor's Walpole landscape design practice. By the business's own Houzz description, he founded it in 1998 as a full-service landscape company and it now concentrates on landscape design and consultation. Its written record runs from February 2013 to March 2016, when customers describe its crews doing maintenance and installs. What those customers kept describing was Bob's plant knowledge. In a December 2015 Houzz review, a customer said that in one short visit he identified every existing planting — other companies had not known half the trees and shrubs — and later designed new plantings around their pool. A November 2014 reviewer said that at the first consultation he pointed out drainage issues they had missed, diagnosed an insect problem on their shrubs, and broke a major makeover into stages so they could do it over time. In a March 2016 review, a customer described plantings around a new patio, raised stone beds, a stone walkway and a garden shed built from scratch, on time and on budget. Houzz shows 4.8 stars from 6 ratings and lists 7 Houzz awards.
I was extremely pleased to find Bob and his staff 3 years ago when I was looking for a someone with creative ideas and a wealth of knowledge. He has surpassed my expectations. He had great ideas for plantings around our newly installed back patio and made it happen. His group even developed raised stone beds, a stone walkway, and built a garden shed from scratch. They were on time and on budget. He's now my "go to" person on any landscaping project.
We decided to call Garden Tech after very dissapointing experiences with a couple of the popular landscape companies in our town. One crew was constantly weed wacking my wifes favorite perennials :( We were very impressed with our first meeting with the owner Bob Trainor. In one short visit Bob was able to identify all the existing plantings. (the other companies had no clue as to what half the trees and shrubs were). He assesed the good and the bad of of our existing landscape and more importantly listend to what we wanted in terms of care of our property. He also diagnosed some insect problems and right away had great ideas on how to improve our yard. We contracted Garden Tech to do our regular landscape maintenance and what a differance. The yard allways looks great, the crew doesnt mow on rainy days like the others did, and the guys are very friendly and professional. Last spring we were invited to a garden tour of Bob's own home and were so impressed we asked him to design new plantings for our back yard pool area. The design included many of my wifes favorite plants and Bob's suggestions on summer flowering shrubs and perennials really made it a summer oasis. The Garden Tech crews obviously take pride in thier work, they cleaned up after themselves every night, informed us of thier progress and the job was completed on time and on budget. Next year we plan to have them back to instal a new patio and hope it becomes worthy of the Garden Tech Houzz portfolio!
We decided to call Garden Tech after very dissapointing experiences with a couple of the popular landscape companies in our town. One crew was constantly weed wacking my wifes favorite perennials :( We were very impressed with our first meeting with the owner Bob Trainor. In one short visit Bob was able to identify all the existing plantings. (the other companies had no clue as to what half the trees and shrubs were). He assesed the good and the bad of of our existing landscape and more importantly listend to what we wanted in terms of care of our property. We contracted Garden Tech to do our regular landscape maintenance and what a differance. The yard allways looks great, the crew doesnt mow on rainy days like the others did, and the guys are very friendly and professional. Last spring we were invited to a garden tour of Bob's own home and were so impressed we asked him to design new plantings for our back yard pool area. The design included many of my wifes favorite plants and Bob's suggestions on summer flowering shrubs and perennials really made it a summer oasis. The Garden Tech crews obviously take pride in thier work, they cleaned up after themselves every night, informed us of thier progress and the job was completed on time and on budget. Next year we plan to have them back to instal a new patio and hope it becomes worthy of the Garden Tech Houzz portfolio!
The team at Garden Tech have been caring for my property for about 15 years. They continue to amaze me by exceeding all expectations in every area from design to maintenance and that would include the cost. I feel that I get great value for my dollar and my property is cared for as it was theirs. It has gone from mediocre to spectacular thanks to this great team at Garden Tech. Pictures can be seen upon request
I needed help with a major landscape makeover on a recently purchased home. I asked my favorite local nursery for a good knowledgeable company and Garden Tech was highly recommended. At our first consultation the owner Bob Trainor walked the property with us and assessed the good and bad of our existing landscape and made some initial suggestions based and what our goals were. He also pointed out some drainage issues we weren't aware of and diagnosed an insect problem on our shrubs. We loved the design Bob came up with for getting our landscape in shape. The estimates were reasonable and he was able to break the project up into different stages so we could do it over time. Their work was excellent and the crew clean cut and curious. The best part were the results, we never knew our yard could look so good!
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Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Garden Tech Horticultural Services LLC. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
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$50 – $70
Typical landscaping service around $60
Design-build patios and hardscaping4.1
