Home Services reviews in Oakland, California

Lara and her team were wonderful! They built a beautiful deck in our backyard, and now we plan to hire them for future projects. Highly recommend!

We had an absolutely fantastic experience with Bountiful Botanical and their manager, Lara. From the start, Lara was incredibly kind, attentive, and a great listener. We trusted her completely with the plant choices, all of which were California native, and they turned out beautifully. Lara brought her own creative design ideas to the project, which we greatly appreciated and incorporated, making the final result even better than we envisioned.

Throughout the entire process, Lara was responsive and reliable, always keeping us updated and making sure we were comfortable with each step. Her crew was diligent, professional, and left the site spotless every day. The attention to detail and the organization of the entire project were truly impressive.

We’re so happy to have found Lara and Bountiful Botanical and are looking forward to continuing our relationship with them for garden maintenance. Highly recommend for anyone looking for top-notch landscape design and build services!

We worked with Lara and Bountiful Botanicals on a project to install a patio, turf and landscaped areas in our yard after removing our pool. We could not have been more happier with the result! The space looks amazing, and we finally have a flat and visually appealing place to be outdoors with our kids!

Lara and her team were amazing to work with. We chose Lara over other companies because we needed someone with a good eye and judgment to work through all the design details. Lara was onsite every morning with her crew, and we communicated regularly throughout the project to make all the design decisions. I don't think it would have turned out this well if we had worked with someone else.

Also: Lara's team is amazing - they are incredible craftsmen who take pride in doing great work. I was amazed by what they could do, and they did an all-around fantastic job throughout the project.

We highly recommend Lara and Bountiful Botanicals for anyone who wants to improve their outdoor spaces.

From the start, working with Lara @ Bountiful Botanicals has been a pleasure! Our project was quite large, involving a bigger crew, and dealing with unexpected challenges throughout the project due to our back yard having a lot of “hidden history”, so to speak. But Lara and the crew were able to meet these challenges head on, and found ways to optimize time so we were not bogged down with extra spend.

We completely overhauled our back yard, from an overgrown mess to a yard we could be proud of, and most importantly, safe for our kids. Lara was great in understanding we had kids, and she helped in choosing materials that would work well to reduce or eliminate chemicals or difficult/sharp surfaces. Same goes for plant selection, equally good for our kids and dog so nothing with poisons, and lots of fun edibles for the kids to easily pick off an eat.

Without a doubt, I highly recommend Bountiful Botanicals for your project, both large and small. They can take on any challenge and have the skills within the team to get any project completed.

I've included a before, and a few after. The details speak for themselves on the quality and craftsmanship from the team!

We highly recommend Sweet Landscapes. Angele Sweet is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about creating beautiful landscapes. She also is well versed in zero landscape design to keep up with today's fire codes.

Angele is so talented. Her landscape designs are beautiful, but also unique and intentional. She created a front and backyard landscape for us that is so pretty, but also full of surprises with year long, interesting plants, varied blooms, and wonderful colors and textures. Working with her is a delight and she has provided so much helpful guidance and input even after the project was done. I trust her input and design decisions completely. Her crew is also professional, efficient, knowledgeable and very neat! Highly recommend!

Angele was fantastic - our front yard looks beautiful. We love it so much, we asked her to come back and design our back yard.

I have a large southwest facing garden that needed a lot of water to keep the plants alive, & a lot of weeding to keep tidy. Angele asked what I wanted. I said a low maintenance, sun & drought tolerant garden that looks curated.
She delivered. My water bill has dropped, the garden looks good, & I get a lot of compliments on it.

We had a great experience with Angele. She assisted us plant selections and they’re all thriving!

Angele did a fantastic job designing and overseeing the landscape installation of our courtyard, front, and side yards . She is very knowledgable and helped us make selections that we love and are low maintenance (which was a must). She is reliable, nice, and fun to work with too!!

Angele designed my front garden, and I had such a good experience, I asked her to do the back as well. My goal for the front was year-round interest with natives and drought tolerant plants. Angele gave me several options of plants to choose from and arranged them beautifully. My yard definitely has year-round interest. It was really helpful to have Angele's landscaper, Sergio, do all the installation of the plants and trees. In the back, he installed a stone patio and has since replaced a fence for me. I continue to use Angele and Sergio as needed. Last year, I decided to replace two apple trees, and Angele advised me on options and Sergio planted the trees. They are a great team!

What a pleasure it was to work with a landscape designer who is creative, a good listener, and knowledgeable! Angéle Sweet was able to synthesize the various elements and ideas that were important to me and combine them with her own knowledge, expertise, experience, and vision to design a garden which uplifts the spirits, and sparks joy and appreciation every time it is visited physically, or visually from a doorway, window or sidewalk! Her crew leader was organized, skilled and pleasant to work with. All phases of the project went smoothly and were completed in a timely fashion. Communication was excellent. I highly recommend Sweet Landscapes and its principal Angéle Sweet, a wonderful landscape designer with strong aesthetics.

★★★★★ Highly Recommended

Working with Angele at Sweet Landscapes was a fantastic experience. She was incredibly agreeable to work with and truly listened, respecting my personal aesthetic even when it diverged from her own. She brought significant experience and vision to the project, expertly anticipating and addressing the specific challenges posed by our yard's steep uphill slope.

What impressed me most was her flexibility. When my execution budget changed significantly, Angele didn’t see it as a limitation; she embraced it as a creative challenge, seamlessly pivoting the design to meet our original intentions using more cost-effective tools. Her final blueprints and plant lists were beautifully presented and clear, even for someone with limited familiarity with landscape design.

Angele goes above and beyond just the planning. She recommended a highly capable, experienced contractor to execute the work and even offered her ongoing assistance at an hourly rate during construction to ensure the vision was fully realized.

The results were timely, the quality of her work was exceptional, and I am thrilled with the entire process. I strongly recommend Angele to anyone looking for a talented, creative, local landscape designer. I would happily work with her again!

Angele Sweet has installed three gardens on my property. Her choice of plants is a great complement to my 100 year old house. The beautiful landscaping that she's done for me had added a lot of value to my home. People walking by stop to give compliments about the beauty of all the plants. Angele is very easy to work with. All of the projects were done on time and with a fair budget. I would recommend her to anyone who wants a stellar design and very professional work.

I had a 30-minute consultation with Angele and she was thorough and knowledgeable, thoughtful about my garden plans, and I'm so grateful for her guidance and care.

Great design with input from us. Great workmanship and completion.

Angele was great to work with. We really like the design and plant selection she did for us, and Sergio and his crew did great work. The job was done quickly and communication was excellent. Would recommend!

Sweet Landscaping is amazing. Angele has designed multiple gardens for us and overseen the installation! She is great at listening to the project specifications and delivering on time and on budget.

Angele did both our back garden and front landscape years ago, and recently revamped the front with a perfect touch that had our neighbors noticing. I know many of her gardens well. She is a gifted designer with a natural eye and heartfelt interest, and I wouldn't pass up on hiring her if you want a back garden that welcomes you in for years to come, or an exterior landscape that defines your house with style. She is a great listener, and also does not hesitate to steer you in a direction that she senses you'll be pleased with. She thinks about "the little things" like the way children might investigate the garden, what the view from your kitchen window will be like, and how the layout and scents might make you feel. Angele is generous with her knowledge and will educate about options, though her unique talent and stand-out expertise and experience is not replicable. She prioritizes what will actually work for your space over the trends, and yet provides an artful flair and up-to-date look worthy of a magazine. She will aim not just for immediate satisfaction (like over planting that leads to messy overgrowth) but the long-term enjoyment of watching your garden evolve and mature. A landscape of course is a living place that we have a changing relationship with. Angele's design feels like it was there all along, yet transitions feel possible, inevitable, and natural. If you ask her she'll be back for ongoing consultation. If a plant doesn't work out, she'll know what to replace it with. For me personally, a good design not only brings appeal to the eye, but along with that a sense of calm and comfort. The green spaces around my home provide this daily, and it's all Angele!

I've had the pleasure of knowing Angele Sweet through our BNI chapter, and I can say with full confidence that she is the real deal.

Angele brings a rare level of artistry, intentionality, and professionalism to her work. Her background in Art History isn't just a fun fact; it genuinely shows in how she approaches every project. She doesn't just design landscapes, she creates outdoor spaces that feel curated, purposeful, and completely aligned with her clients' vision.

What impresses me most is her commitment to sustainable, climate-responsive design. She understands the East Bay environment deeply and designs with it, not against it. Her "White Glove" approach means clients are taken care of from the first conversation all the way through installation.

If you're a Bay Area homeowner, developer, or design professional looking for someone who will treat your outdoor space as the investment it truly is, look no further than Sweet Landscapes USA. Angele is knowledgeable, trustworthy, and genuinely passionate about her craft.

Highly recommend!

We highly recommend Angele Sweet and Sweet Landscapes. Angele’s skill, knowledge and expertise combined to completely transform our significantly sloped property, which had been neglected for many years. Angele’s designs were professionally prepared and created functionality (installing an irrigation system and terracing with beautiful, properly-scaled rock to enhance drainage), and a variety of animal-resistant, colorful plants that bloom throughout the year.

We found Angele and her crews to be trustworthy, cost competitive, polite, efficient and super respectful of our property. Our project was completed on schedule and every person with whom we worked was always receptive and responsive to our questions.

We could not have been any happier with our experiences in working with Sweet Landscapes.