NC from Richmond Hill

I hired Martin for the service of planting cedars, mulching, excavation and landscape fabric installation in early spring. He and his team arrived early in the morning, and Martin left after telling his team what to do. After they installed the landscape fabric, I found some of my plants were completely covered by the fabric in darkness. I told the team about it, and showed them pictures that I took in previous summer so they could locate where the plants were, and simply cut a hole for the plants to grow. Martin came back and saw I was talking to his team. He was upset because he thought finding the plants and made the hole was wasting time, and he was not happy with the speed of his team, so he told me "Please go back to your house and let the guys work". In fact, I left the team to do their work most of the time, and just came out to check the progress and found they did not leave holes for my perenials as promised so I tried to work it out with them. Planting 5 cedars - they just digged and did not put new triple mix soil provided by me, they did not care if the root ball fitted into it or there was stones and sands beneath. They just planted them there but cutting away part of the root balls. all of them died in few months. Mulching - the shady side of the garden where they started to mulch had few inches thick of mulching, by the time they worked on the very sunny and dry part of the garden, they found the mulch was almost finished, so they just put a very thin layer, which was less than half an inch and left. I had to buy more mulch and fill by myself later. Martin is very rude, and would not complete his work as what he discussed with you at the beginning. I would not recommend to anyone.