Rain Garden Nursery LandscapeMakeoverDesignStaging

Grass came up great thru special topdressing 1/4-10 fine gravel. Very stable and not spongy or wet any more. Aerated deep and done all along the curb area where it got saturated before. Wonderful job.

We couldn't be happier. Just walking to our mail on any given day, people walking by our home continually compliment us on our amazing newly overseeded lawn. Our old lawn had been destroyed by overgrown trees and their removal. This nursery and landscape contractor is a semi-retired golf resort superintendent and had access to just the right equipment. Now our lawn looks like a putting green. Our immediate neighbor also had him seamlessly combine and renovate both lawns. We've seen landscapes nearby that they've also madeover with ingenious simple designs re-shaping lawns and shrub beds and including boulders and river rock. They are all wonderful, and we're all referring them to our neighbors. We highly recommend this company.

Rain Garden Nursery provided us with special narrow flowering trees that just fit in our back and side yard, and added more color to our landscape. The trees are doing really well after the late spring/early summer planting.

I've recently seen several of their projects north of Seattle in Brier, Washington. I'm improving my home and landscape to sell it this Spring. I particularly liked a project in Brier that involved turf renovation and re-shaping shrub beds. They removed a large number of overgrown shrubs and replaced them with attractive groundcover and river rock. Created a very nice flowing look. Outstanding and exactly what I have them doing for my home. I'll be adding photos of their project, and my ongoing project, to this review. It's already obvious that my makeover will improve re-sale value. Yes I strongly recommend them without reservation!

I was looking for a professional to help me thru my Do-It-Yourself project remodeling an existing landscape. This professional was perfect for what I wanted. As a highly rated retired golf superintendent with additional landscape construction and nursery experience, he walked me thru all the necessary steps to renovate lawns and replace existing overgrown high maintenance plants with low maintenance Native Plants. The amazing part of this is how easy it all is when you get the right advice. Turf renovation on a small scale can actually be done with a pitch fork to thatch and aerate, and prepare for re-seeding. And the native plants grow from tiny inexpensive plants to full grown specimens in far less time. Their added bonus is that they don't require irrigation, fertilizer or pesticides. Couldn't have been happier. These people are super easy to work with, and I highly recommend them. The Houzz.com photographs of their many projects speak for themselves.

Pros: Scott is a fantastic designer and is very creative. Extremely knowledgeable about tree and plant locations. As you can see in his photos the house with the yellow front door is ours. He also installed a beautiful fire pit in the back yard. Unfortunately Scott has some health issues but hopefully he is fine. Cons: We hired Scott and his team 14 months ago. As of today the irrigation system still isn’t complete. He moved it to accommodate a future hot tub. Our irrigation system at this point is useless. We contracted his company to install new and existing fencing and gates. We had to pay another company to complete two of our three gates. We are currently relocating two clumping bamboo trees as they were planted in the middle of our pathway. We are into the project more than 20k. Willing to update review if all work is completed.

Rain Garden Nursery did 3 neighboring landscape makeover renovations in our neighborhood recently. They all looked fantastic so we asked them about doing our's. They quickly came up with a simple design to enhance our existing landscape. We were impressed by how they took advantage of our existing features and added a few more innovative touches that made all the difference. They also renovated our existing lawn with golf equipment, and even followed up months later to add an at cost improvement to our back yard. Couldn't be happier, and appreciated their followup and follow thru! Definitely recommend them! We love the First Blush Flowering cherry trees they strategically added to the back yard for additional privacy!

High Tech Turf & Trees has done seven landscape projects in the immediate area around my home in the Lincoln neighborhood in north Vancouver. As a "yamabushi" landscape designer myself, I've seen countless landscape designs and installations that are at best common place. Their work is by comparison, a quantum leap above and beyond most. Their style and quality are unmistakable even in dissimilar projects. Their design approach is bolstered by their experience as golf course superintendent, nurseryman, and even grounds management technology consultancy and sales via USGA and PGA Tour. (Experience obtained in time spent in consultation with many of the best U.S., and U.K. garden and turf venues, and Australian manufacturers shows in their work) . Their willingness and openness in sharing their knowledge and experience as a mentor (and as an instructor and guest lecturer) has helped me professionally as well. Their spirit of patient collaboration is both invaluable and essential to any endeavor aspiring to landscape design as an art. I give my highest recommendation to High Tech Turf & Trees.

We were doing our own landscaping in early July 2017, just after moving into our newly built home on ¾ of an acre. Scott came by several times with ideas of how he could help us and mentioned the other folks within our small community for whom he had worked. We already had a very detailed plan of our own but thought perhaps he could refine it with his professional knowledge of irrigation, plant choice and placement, etc. We also liked that he could get materials at a discount. We decided to give him a try. He was very responsive via phone, text and email and seemed to always be “around.” He met with us right away (7/8/17), discussed our wishes, took photos of the property and took our detailed plan away with him. He said he would have three detailed plan versions for us within two weeks. We paid him $1200.00 up front and would pay the remaining $400.00 upon receipt of the plans, for a total of $1600.00. Many weeks passed during which he came by (always unannounced) to take more pictures, to leave various pieces of equipment in our yard for weeks at a time, much of which had nothing to do with our project, or just to chat about unrelated topics! We repeatedly asked him when we would have the plans as we were waiting to be able to have them approved by our HOA and were falling behind our schedule to get things done before the rain started. He always responded by saying he would be calling tomorrow or in a few days to meet with us. After a while he started claiming his associate had already sent the plans, or there must have been a mix-up – all kinds of stories but no plans. One day in early September (you heard that right!), he stopped by with yet another piece of equipment and said we could use it to till the soil. We were leaving on a two-week vacation the following day and were so behind that we agreed to let him do some tilling and soil amending. We gave him a check for $800.00, the remaining $400.00 due upon completion for a total of an additional $1200.00. That same day we asked him, where are the plans? He claimed his associate had sent them but maybe sent them to the wrong people. She would send them that evening. That did not happen. Several days prior to our return from vacation my husband emailed Scott confirming that the work would be done and we would have the plans upon our return. He did not respond to this email nor for the request that he call us. He had completed only a fraction of the work for which we had paid him, something that was obvious to us as we have video cameras around our property. Out of necessity and over the course of our vacation we had moved forward, finishing our own plan down to the last detail, with no assistance from Scott, had already used our own plan for HOA approval, planned our own irrigation and lighting, purchasing all the supplies, rented various pieces of equipment, etc. A few days after returning, we sent him an email advising we were severing ties and expected a refund for services not rendered and could he please remove the equipment he had left. He did not respond to that either. But a week later he did send an email containing three very non-detailed plans as if we had never emailed him telling him we were finished. Mind you it had now been three months to do a two week job! These plans were of no use to us as we had already moved forward in implementing our own, plus they were lacking many necessary details. Many weeks passed before he finally picked up all of his equipment. We are about halfway finished with our own landscaping now but must pause due to rain. He has been contacted several times with requests to discuss the situation with no response. We have paid him $2000.00. What a mistake. I would definitely NOT recommend this company. Look at the similarities and heed the reviews! We wish we had.

Amazing before and after shots. Fantastic designs and flawless execution. As a home stager I know the value of great curb appeal to bring interest onto the property and into the house. As a home owner who lives thru Portland rains I truly appreciate a lovely outdoor space to spend the summers in. High Tech Turf & Trees has the winning combination to create both new landscapes and bring the love and life back to existing landscapes.

Scott and his team at High Tech Turf & Trees create impressive results with their landscaping knowledge and skills. Their projects and photos speak for themselves. As Home Stagers for over 11 years helping our clients prepar their homes for sale, we can appreciate both the simplicity of their design approach and innovative construction/remodeling techniques. Scott uses some of the finest golf turf equipment to renovate lawns and even pastures simply and quickly is amazing. Their practical designs do "Make the best landscapes better", (and some really sad landscapes...so much better!) We love their innovative outdoor entertainment area work. Yes we recommend High Tech Turf & Trees Highly

High Tech Turf & Trees used golf course equipment to professionally Make-Over our Lawn, and large Tree. Results were great and it was done quickly, with no real disruption to the use of the landscape. It definitely improved the front yard curb appeal. We may be selling the property at some point in the near future, and High Tech Turf & Trees was able to give us interesting ideas to both further improve the front yard curb appeal, and great ideas for Real Estate Staging of the back yard as well.