Maggie's Farm

Can't afford even non-English speaking landscaping service, but don't dismiss this as just sour grapes if I stress why I wouldn't even if I were:

1)They're mostly illegal. Show me your green card, and I will hire you. Hey, where'd everybody go? You can't rant here about border fences if you then hire illegals to do your yard. Why do you think they came? Supply and demand.

2) Unless you are a total dud and landscape with pachysandra and lawn and a few dull foundation plantings, you want landscapers who know and love the local vegetation. Who will not uproot all your perennials, weed whack your tree peonies and roses, etc. or get rid of beloved local wildflowers.

I could see hiring landscapers if you stupidly douse your lawn with chemicals and don't want to be exposed applying them yourself. Not very moral of you, and not very loving towards your beloved Fido who will be rolling in that chemlawn minutes later, but your choice. Here again, do you feel confident that someone who doesn't understand English will read all the cautions on the back of the Roundup and insecticide and mix up all those potions as intended? I mean, even if you go organic, if you spread that chicken poop too liberally, it will burn your grass...