Landscaping reviews in Durham, North Carolina

Our lawn is the envy of the neighborhood! We have recommended Blakes service to several people and they are happy lawns also!
Robert Garard

Murray's Landscaping is outstanding. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a crew that wants to please!

I have found Murray’s to be thoughtful with planting and ridiculously kind to work with. They helped when I struck an irrigation line during a fence installation handling the situation with expertise and care. Thanks Murray’s!

I have worked with Noam for 3-4 years on a variety of landscape and garden projects. He and his crew are great -- dependable, responsive, reasonably priced. Strongly recommend.

Excellent from start to finish. Noam came to our property and his estimate was incredibly reasonable. His work was beautiful. He kept the best parts of our garden as he got our yard ready for sale. He had an extensive knowledge of plants and trees. We couldn’t be happier!

Great communication and excellent work. Highly recommend Noam and his team!

Noam met with us several times to discuss our project and really listened to what we wanted. His team did a great job and they were ready to have feedback and make any adjustments as necessary. He also accurately predicted project start dates and timelines which was very helpful.

Grow It Yourself has helped us create gardens twice and have been wonderful to work with. They help us design the space and worked to understand how it can best work for our home and family.

Grow It Yourself is wonderful! I will definitely keep working with them! They have done 3 projects for me and I’ve been so happy with each one. Noam communicates well and timely so there are no surprises. They do really nice work and help afterwards if you have questions. Their work is reasonably priced and fair. Highly recommend!

Amazing experience working with Noam and team. The design and planning was efficient, the installation was on time and faster than expected and on budget! We absolutely love the final results in our backyard; thank you GIY!!

Noam and the team did a great job with our backyard patio and fire pit project. They really brought the vision to life better than we could have done ourselves. We'll definitely be using them for more projects coming up!

Noam and his crew prepped and installed a flagstone patio at our house. It was done just as we discussed, and is exactly what we wanted. Grow It Yourself is very responsive and easy to work with, and the crew leaves you with a great result.

Grow It Yourself helped us get our home ready to sell

We used this business twice (once for a garden overhaul and another for mulch + landscaping) and both times we were very satisfied with the end result.

I was very happy to know this business was not a one-man-show and that the work was done very quickly in just a matter of hours because several workers got the job done.

If we were staying in the Durham area, we would be happy to keep Grow It Yourself on retainer for continued service throughout the year.

Highly Recommend

Noam and his great team have put in gardens for us, and cleared areas of our yard of grass- putting in native plants. He is dependable, easy to work with, responsive and reasonably priced.

I received the following email response from Noam, GIY owner, a week and a half before the start date of my project:

‘You can think whatever you want. After many issues with plants replacement this past summer due to weather or lack of care by customers we changed our policy and this is why I mentioned it. Since we still haven’t started any actual work you can still look for a different company to get this done for you if you feel we are not a good match.’

This was in response to me expressing disappointment in learning last minute that he was not going to honor the plant replacement policy he promised, which is one of the reasons I chose his company. I was never rude or disrespectful and never once said I wanted to cancel, especially since it was so close to my start date and I had material on hold at various places that I spent countless hours selecting.

Another fact I learned too late, even though I asked many questions about the budget before I went to select my plants: he doesn’t pass along his nursery discount to his customers. So, he pockets the difference ($1k in my case) in addition to the plant installation fee. I might as well buy all of the plants myself so I can at least get the benefit of the credit card points.

$16k may not be a lot to Noam; but it is a lot of money to me. So, of course, I’m not going to give thousands of dollars to someone who is perfectly okay with doing a last minute bait and switch or to someone who is so quick to tell me I can go somewhere else, knowing it will be impossible for me to find another landscaper on such short notice. Guess I should consider myself lucky I found this out before he started work at my house only to leave me high and dry with an unfinished project.

Noam and team transformed my front yard into a fabulous oasis! I had a desolate space where I'd been unable to grow anything. It's now a bee and butterfly haven. In 20 years, I've never gotten a compliment on my front yard...until now! They installed plants, irrigation, pavers, river rock, and mulch. They worked full days until it was done. Highly recommend!

Noam and his team were a delight to work with. Price was very reasonable for the scope of work done. Project was a dry creek to channel storm water runoff in our backyard. The result was both beautiful and functional (will try to attach photo and video of dry creek in action) - it was tested just days later by a torrential downpour and performed beautifully. Would definitely recommend Grow It Yourself for your gardening and landscaping needs.

Great experience working with Grow It Yourself removing my lawn and installing a pollinator garden. Noam and his team were easy to work with, responsive, efficient and did an excellent job. Highly recommend!

Noam and his team did a great job at our house. He came to look at our yard, listened to all of our concerns and desires, and made a number of great suggestions. Ultimately, he installed two raised vegetable beds, transplanted roses, and replanted a large bed. He and his team did all this in a single day and did a wonderful job. We found the price to be extremely reasonable.

Noam and his crew did and excellent job helping me identify and implement strategies to clean up a large neglected yard. I look forward to working with them again to add some new beds and indigenous plants. Great work!

I'll always be grateful to the neighbors who introduced me to Noam and his team. Every project they've tackled has added a level of beauty and value that I could not have dreamed of.