Best Planter Wall Construction in Phoenix AZ

Envision KILLED it!  They haven't posted any pics of our job yet but ours is the King job.
If you look at it for a quick glance you'll be blown away. Everyone who comes over is very impressed with the finished product.
The thing that I see most is the attention to detail, and they did that perfectly (and I'm picky). The spacing between all my travertine steps is uniform and perfectly square. The rock borders around my paver walkway is uniform on all 4 sides. The spacing in-between plants is correct, the trees are facing the right way (it's a thing). The irrigation is well hidden yet easily accessible. And the drainage!!!!!  My yard had flooding issues before Rafa and his crew came out but those issues are GONE!!!
Get your quotes (I got more than 10). You'll find Envision to likely be somewhere in the middle but they did TOP TIER work. Great value, great experience.
And his crews have been with him for years. He's got a great team- no dirt bags.
I'm using them again when we do the front yard in the spring.
Get them to come quote you!

Can't say enough great things about Nature Homes Landscaping! Miguel came over and gave us a great estimate, tips to find the best plants and his team came over shortly after. They worked so quickly and what would have taken me a couple days, they did in TWO hours! So worth every cent and more. I plan to use them on any future projects.

I had a 30 foot tree that needed significant dead branch removal. Paul and his crew were fantastic to deal with. Multiple tree services came out and then told me they couldn't do it. Or their estimates were 2-3 times higher than Happy Tree. Great business. Quick work. I will definitely call back when I need more tree work. Thanks!

Can't say enough good a deal positive words! Raoul and his brother showed up right at the time they said. Worked and came back again at the exact same time.
Very professional.

The most impressive part about their service is that they cleaned up right after they were done each time. We're living in a time where vendors come do the job and leave but not Montoya they represented very well and we would recommend them hands down! They are OUR new landscapers of choice. Thank you Raoul.

JNK Landscaping did such an awesome job and I would highly recommend them. They do a great job and the price is very reasonable. The owner is Naji and he is very on top of things and is great with communication. I had so many questions and unsure about what I wanted but he did great at recommending things, explained the process and keeping me in the loop. They put in new grass, irrigation system, pavers and gravel in my backyard. I was trying to get this project done before the weekend and they got it done in only 2 days! They are very fast and efficient. I have had many companies come out to my house to get different jobs done but JNK Landscaping has offered the best service. Hire them, you won't regret it.

I was a potential customer who contacted the company for a custom job,  very confusing and unprofessional experience.

Juan and his team were FANTASTIC! Quick reply , good estimate and the work dine was top notch ! He is a great communicator I would strongly recommend him and his crew the quality was terrific !

We just moved into our house about a month ago, the backyard was not landscaped by the builder... I used Thumbtack, Angi, and several other aps to look for landscapers... I didn't think to you Yelp and I'm so glad that I did... I submitted a request thru Yelp during the Memorial weekend not expecting to get a response till after the weekend... I was pleasantly surprised when I got a response back immediately and he was able to stop by the next day to give us an estimate to have the backyard landscaped... Robert did a superb job; he was always on time, extremely responsive, hardworking and very respectful of our property... The yard is gorgeous!!! Thank you!!!!

We wanted to extend our driveway and create a path with embedded glass block lighting from the driveway to the backyard door. I solicited multiple call requests, send pictures, measurements, architectural drawings to everyone. Testa came in with a good value, and a commitment they would be able to get this done before our backyard housewarming party.

Due to everybody having a very busy schedule, they committed to me they would come by earlier if there is a cancellation. Sure enough they did. I had pre-ordered all of the paving stones and solar light inserts and they arrived at 7 o'clock in the morning and we're done by 12:30 in the afternoon. Very efficient, pricing exactly as quoted, left the work area clean and even took the pallets that the paving stones came on with them. Very happy with their service, respectful of property, good communication. At the end, extremely happy with the service provided.

Great work, on time and affordable.  They installed uneven flagstone pavers like it was no big deal after multiple other landscapes told me it was impossible.

Jason did an epic job on our travertine.  Super punctual, no hidden costs and really turned what we were thinking of into a reality.  I was really blown away at the attention to detail and doing the work the right way.  We'll be giving him a call when the next project comes up for sure.

Very disappointed. Scott initially missed our first appointment but called to reschedule. When he did come, he walked through our yard, took pictures, and said he'd work up a design. He never called back, no email, no communication. I called a couple of times but figure something happened. Better than the 2 other guys who made appointments but never showed, but not by much.

Juan is responsive and did a good job on my yard without any direction from me in person.  We only exchanged photos and texts.  He completed work on time for a fair price in this market.

Jorge responded and understood exactly what I wanted and gave a great price for the service.

Pete is a great person! He's professional, hard working and easy to work with. I had a vision and he turned it into a reality in our backyard. I highly recommend his company for your landscaping needs!

I do not recommend Damian and would not use him again. Damian showed up for an initial meeting and did get me an estimate in a timely manner which I found encouraging. (Thus 2 stars not 1).

Damian claimed he had built a cinder driveway I saw a photo of on HS website on Yelp but I believe it was the company he worked for before going on his own. I was trying to get our new place in Vernon shaped up from Phoenix so I had some urgency and thought I'd give a new business owner a chance. I expected he would put some thought into the project and have a plan to build up the driveway since he was just getting started.

Instead I got a barge load of 2,3 and 4 inch cinders dropped and Damian's skid steer operator (his father) raced around frantically for hours spreading cinders. Damian didn't even stay around to supervise but instead left right after introducing me to his father, so we had to figure out what to do ourselves which should have been his job. There was so much cinder that we kept having to expand the area that he spread it on and it was still too deep with cinders. After spreading a mountain of cinders for several hours and continuously expanding the parking area, there was no more realistic area to spread them so we said enough. I thought my SUV would get stuck in the deep loose cinders the first time I drove on them. I still leave ruts in the deep cinders. I now I pray for weather so the cinders might sink into the ground. When it rains or snows we drive the car up and down to compact the cinders. Most likely I'll die or break an ankle tripping over cinders before that ever happens. I brought in someone to try to fix the problem, and learned that I could have had the driveway built up correctly, and rolled to compact the cinders for the same as I paid Damian. Not just a dump and spread. I don't recommend this company at all.

Thanks Custom Outlooks, for wasting my time.

My project consists of tearing out an old deck in the back yard, removing a large tree and 16 much smaller trees, forming and backfilling a new raised deck area with fill, and paving over it with travertine, and installing pavers on the east side of the house in addition to trimming some large trees.

My project is not a 6-figure job but for damn sure, it's a decent 5-figure job for a contractor with enough integrity and business sense to follow through.
Having kept a Custom Outlooks advertisement and business card from a prior home & garden show, I set up an appointment with Jesus to come to my home on June 3.  

Jesus arrived and I explained the project to him when he arrived. He was professional, although on the downside of friendly. But, I wasn't looking for personality; I was looking for skills and value so I wasn't too concerned. We chatted about the project and he promised me a quote the following week. It's now been six weeks since I met with Jesus and have never heard diddly squat from him or anyone else at Custom Outlooks. Needless to say, I've gotten other estimates and permanently crossed Custom Outlooks off my list. They've wasted their time and mine. And now, they'll have the benefit of showing how unreliable they are to any customers foolish enough to ignore this review.  

One other note--which I'm putting in the category of Just Plain Weird: After Jesus and I talked in my back yard about my project, I left him alone to finalize measurements, photos etc. (I'm not totally sure what he was doing out there). I came inside and sat on the couch to wait for him after telling him to just come in the back door when he was finished and I'd let him out the front door. There is no other way out of my back yard except to come through the house. There is a double gate--which is locked at all times. So other than coming to the back door and walking back through my house, the only way out of the back yard is literally, to jump the fence.  Through the back windows, I saw Jesus walking around for a few minutes after I came inside...and then, I didn't. After about 10 minutes of not seeing any more movement in the back yard, I walked outside and found he'd vanished!. I checked in front of my house, and sure enough, his vehicle was gone. I'm not sure when he left or why he didn't simply come to the back door as I'd instructed. Maybe he knew he was going to ghost me and wanted to run off without any insincere pleasantries and without promising me--again--that he'd send me an estimate. Either way, it's just weird as hell that instead of coming back through the house, or at least knocking on the French doors that lead to our back yard, he chose to skulk off without a word by JUMPING THE FENCE. What a freakin' oddball!

Perhaps the current state of the AZ home building and remodeling industry makes companies like Custom Outlooks think they only have to take jobs from folks with a blank dirt lot and a blank checkbook so they can soak people on high-dollar, fancy-schmancy  jobs that include lots of design work and markup. But if that's the case, why not just tell me? I'd much rather have had Jesus tell me something like: based on the size of your job, we'd have a really hard time squeezing it in among our larger projects so you'll probably be better off contacting another company, vs. ghosting me after wasting my time and promising me an estimate that never came.
 
I get it: construction trades--including landscapers--are living the high life right now. Housing starts in the Phoenix area are up and the remodeling industry is booming. There's tons of work and prices are hugely inflated. Lots of contractors believe they can pick and choose what they think are the cream of the crop jobs and treat everyone else like crap without even so much as an explanation, much less an apology for not doing what they said they'd do. But if Custom Outlooks really wants to convince people they're reliable, they should be bright enough to know that boom times come and go and livin' the contractor high life won't last forever--unlike online reviews, which DO...

Kendall was quick to respond to my inquiry and come by to provide a quote. He was knowledgeable and didn't attempt to upsell me. The price seemed fair so I moved forward with the project with his company. However, they were not very clear with scheduling and I received confusing dates from multiple sources. They rescheduled and then weren't clear when they would return.

Once the work was completed, they did a poor job- the tree stump wasn't ground down all the way, the crab grass was trimmed, not removed, and there was no weed barrier below the rock they installed, which was discussed at the time of the quote. It's also just basic practice when installing rock.

When I complained about the job, Kendall was apologetic and quick to make it right. The crew came back to fix these issues- again, the scheduling was confusing- but they did eventually make it back out. They essentially had to do the job twice because it wasn't done well the first time.

Overall I'm satisfied with the end result and the price, but as my first experience with a landscaping company I can say I'm not impressed. I applaud Kendall for making sure I was happy with the work, but all the other issues mean it's unlikely I'll hire them again.