Appleseed Tree and Garden Care

I had a big branch that was about to fall and do some damage, needed some help fast. Called a number of places, he was the first to get back to me (actually, answered his phone), came out the very next day and courteously took care of it!

When researching local businesses on Unilocal to prune our camellia trees, I found Appleseed with a few 5 star reviews. I’ve never been disappointed with Unilocal 5 star companies before, so I gave them a call. The person I spoke to did mention that they had a backlog of work for the next month but that as I was so close to West Portal, they would try to fit me in more quickly. The pruning guy missed 3 or 4 appointments, I lost track, including a call 3 hours after the appointment that he was at a Sharks game. I also should have insisted on a written quotation as the invoice was a shock — $ 120 per hour for 4 hours to fine prune one camellia bush. I ended up bringing in a different tree expert, a referral from my contractor, who did a beautiful/​identical job the next day on the remaining 2 camelia trees for HALF the cost. I really liked the people at Appleseed, for example, they were very friendly, and when I called to explain why I was unhappy with the cost of the work and the overall experience, they went out of their way to give me another referral to a company they work with, and tried to make sure I was happy rather than feeling taken advantage of. However, while the Appleseed team seem to know their plants and are nice people, I really can’t recommend calling them for timely work or fair pricing.

They installed a new french drain rerouting water around my garage and tied into an existing one that hadn’t worked in years. Now water just pours out of it when it rains! They even came back and fixed the dry rot on my garage. Awesome !

Great job! They were super friendly and ery knowledgable about our particular tree. The city came by and ticketed us for tree trimming an we called Apple Seed. They came out that day and were done by early afternoon. We’ll be calling them again!