De Leon Gardening Services

I hired Sylvestre to level out some decomposed granite I ordered for a horse paddock as I was getting a shed installed. I chose him other than the ranch hands because he was licensed and because he said he knew how to do it. When he came to give me the estimate, I explained that I was having 20 tons of granite delivered and asked if he had the machines to move the substrate. He said he did.
He showed up with one other guy up and wheelbarrows! He said he could not get the machine. I had to pay a ranch hand to use the ranch’s bulldozer to bring the granite sand in as with wheelbarrows it would have taken 3 days. Furthermore, Sylvestre took a job of leveling the paddock, but did not even bring a level. Good thing I had one. Anyway, apparently, there are right and wrong ways of putting down and leveling decomposed granite and this job was not done professionally. I wish I would have known that the quality of work I would get would amount to that of hiring a couple of day laborers.
Sylvestre himself was very nice and he and his worker are hard workers, I’ll give them that. However, he should have never excepted a job he did not fully know how to do and did not have proper equipment for.
I took a picture of just how «level» they got the paddock when the crew came to install the shed. It enraged me enough to leave this review. See for yourself. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Great landscape/​gardening crew on the coastside! We use Silvestre and his crew for weekly landscape maintenance; and have also had them do several special projects. They mulched our planting beds and did really nice work on a difficult job pruning a very high hedge of Pitisporum that borders our property. Silvestre maintains our drip irrigation system, and found and repaired a break in the main irrigation line caused by a careless fence builder. These guys are friendly, proud of their work and have reasonable pricing. I’m lucky to have found them!

Sylvestre and team are top notch. Have used him three times to remove and old lawn, put in a new lawn and landscape prior to putting our house on the market.

Sylvestre is a hard worker, been in the business for many years and shows up when he says he will. I have coached him on advanced plant Identification and maintenance technique and found him willing to work and willing to learn.

On several occations I have had Sylvestri and his crew clean up and maintain properties for me. His prices are great and his workers are hard working. Integrity is important to me and he has it.

DeLeon rocks. I had one of those situations where the lot I inherited needed to have be groomed. The usual guy wasn’t returning my calls and the county was breathing down my neck. I live 500 miles away. What to do?
DeLeon’s To The Rescue!
I called and talked to them immediately. Sylvester drove by and gave me a reasonable estimate within two hours. He did the work without being prepaid and did it right away. Fabulous!
Oh yeah, the landscape guy I’ve used in the past called about a week later and told me he had driven by and the lot looked great. =oD
Thank you DeLeon’s!

Silvestre and his team are great. Always on time, reasonably priced, flexible, and friendly. Highly recommended.

Sylvestre De Leon, of De Leon Gardening Services, was great to work with. We needed an estimate for sprinklers and he arrived on time and was thorough beginning to end. Thank you Sylvestre! I would recommend him highly.