Scott's Landscaping

Scott told us it'd take 4-5 days to finish our yard. My husband and I were BEYOND patient, but a month later of no-show, no-calls, we were done and had to terminate the agreement. THAT day he was finally responsive and communicative, but still unprofessional. I regret not checking into him more before, but we just felt like he was nice, had good vision and was trustworthy. Completely unreliable. Now we have to hire somebody else to finish what he started.

Scott is all the things mentioned in all these reviews. He is knowledgeable, a very nice guy, has good design ideas and much less expensive than other landscapers. He can also be unreliable when something goes wrong. He did a nice job on our yard and all seemed to be going well. But several of the plants died right away, flagstone pieces broke and the irrigation system leaked. Scott kept saying he would come by to remedy the situation, but after a couple months of broken appointments and false promises, I gave up. It's too bad, because I really liked what he did. But I agree with other reviewers. If all goes well, he's great. If it doesn't, be prepared to need a Plan B.

Total landscape renovation they did everything they said and more even offered to finance a portion of the job. Noel his co-worker never stopped working I can't enough they can do it all they did it all for me.

Scott and his team recently put a awesome flagstone walkway and retaining wall. Perfectly done everyone who walks by loves it. We live in the Chicago area and I can't wait to come back to Monterey to see the finished work.

Scott also has a key to our Carmel home, he did the entire landscape, irrigation and lighting we are very pleased and he continues to maintain the property. We totally trust him, thanks Scott

Scott has working for our family for years.He also has the key to our home in Carmel, he planted all of the plants, irrigation and the lighting system. He recently built great looking fence made of Cedar. The extra lumber was returned and with the credit he bought plants and other supplies. People that trustworthy are hard to find. Thank you Scott

Scott has been maintaining and most recently completely redesigning and landscaping my Carmel Valley home for over 2 years. He is the MOST honest person I have met. I am compelled to type this as this Wed before the Thanksgiving holiday, he was just driving my by home and saw that a 200 year old oak had fallen in the freeze and completely blocked my driveway(which was blocked by my view from the house by the gate.) He called to let me know and immediately began to saw up the tree in order for us to have access to the driveway.

He's a remarkable, caring, honest, and reasonably priced landscaper who we have grown to trust so much that he even watches our pets when we're away. Thank you to Scott for his care of our home.

Excellent designer, super trustworthy and does beautiful work. He needs hardly any direction to produce a beautiful result. I don't understand the poor reviews below as he is extremely thoughtful and honest and always completes his work. I'd highly recommend him. He even has a key to our house and dog sits and house sits for us regularly.

I have two homes one in Carmel and Yankee Point. No matter how busy his schedule is he always does what I ask and does it right away!

Scott has been maintaining my large property for many years and does a great job .He does many worthwild improvements to the property as well.

Scott worked for me for years. I trusted him to take care of my garden and pond. He did well, did good irrigation, lighting work. I did have to followup with him, but he ultimately did ok. His pricing was reasonable so I thought that following up was the price I paid.

Then, I had to go away, he was responsible for taking care of the pond and fix a plumbing problem that he installed.

He called and reported it being fixed. I got calls from neighbors there was a problem, so we called him and he never called back. The pond drained out, and then overflowed repeatedly flooding my garden on a daily basis for 2 weeks. I lost animals, plants, and have an outrageous water bill. This is unacceptable.

I have had a bad experience with this landscaper too. He doesn't follow up if he does something incorrectly. He installed a rock stair way and put flagstone on top of the stairs. They were loose and could cause an accident if someone elderly walked up them. We told him that he should fix them. He said he would but never did even after many attempts to contact him. I would advise finding someone more reliable and safety conscious.

My wife and I hired Scott Powning to do some landscaping for us. We met him at the Monterey Home Show. He comes across and nice but once you get him to work for you all bets are off. We had him install an irrigation system while the weather was still kind of wet and he assured us all was fine. Later on when we tested it we found none of the sprinkler heads head any nozzles in them.

My wife called and left several messages and he never calls back.

Scott Powning is a flake and should not be trusted. He also planted a few plants for us but a bunch of them have died and he does not stand by his products. We still have a bunch of dead plants we need to replace but Scott of off to rip-off other "customers". I would never ever recommend Scott Powning!