Jensen Gardens

If I could give Jensen Gardens 25 stars or more I would. This is the second time I've worked with them and will never call anyone else. They arrived on time to give their estimate, followed up quickly with a bid and kept me informed as to when the crew would come to do the work. The crew too arrived when promised, the crew chief Oscar reviewed with us as to what was being done and they immediately started. I have never seen 3 men hustle and work together as a team like they did. We had them remove landscape timbers from around two trees, move dirt, mulch under 2 trees, clean out a real mess of weeds & overgrowth behind a garage, put down mesh around the plants in the block wall they built many years ago, added river rock to the entire +125 foot wall and sodded a spot where a tree was recently removed. All this in less than 6 hours. I was amazed with their professionalism and work ethics. They were very polite and answered all questions. Before they left they cleaned up everything and checked with me to make sure all was ok. I couldn't be any happier with the work they did and already have another project in mind for them. They are the BEST! THANK YOU NATE & OSCAR & CREW for a fast & efficient job well done. Paula Ishii

They have been shoveling the snow from my driveway all this winter in Nebraska. They are fast, reliable, and do an excellent job! I am very happy with their services and would totally recommend them to others!

Jensen Gardens came to our home today for the spring clean for our yard. This company is very professional, crew is very neat an tidy. They cleaned all the leaves up, trimed plants back an put down a fresh bed of new mulch. Yard looks BEAUTIFUL!!!! Call today 402 253 8880 an schedule your appointment now, you won't be sorry..

Jensen Gardens has been doing our landscape bed maintenance for a long time and also hung up our Christmas lights this year! Great staff that is friendly every time they visit our home. The chocolate mulch they use each year is top notch.

Id have lost all my arborvitae had it not been for Bernie noticing as he drove by that we had bag worms. He stopped to explain and educate me on our various trees. Im absolutely thrilled with Bernie and Jensen Gardens. All our trees are thriving and healthy again. Ten thumbs upMike R

Today, LaRissa was here for the final bed maintenance. She is full of energy and organized. I look forward to seeing her in the 2025 season!

They did a great job planting 5 trees for us. Very friendly team, especially Santiago. ! I highly recommend their services.

This job included removing an existing concrete retaining wall and parking pad, and replacing it with a new block wall and parking pad. It should have been a red flag when they had me sign the contract, but did not have anyone on their end sign when I dropped off a deposit. When I asked to have a signed copy of the contract, it seemed like the person I was dealing with was surprised. This is a clear indication that the contract is in place to protect them, and my interests are not as important.The crew installing the retaining wall put large pallets of stone in my neighbor's yard. I contacted Kolby and they moved the pallets, but the neighbors lawn was left with divots. Not long after that, I realized they were driving a tracked bobcat all over my lawn and my neighbor's lawn. The soil in my lawn was left compacted, but they put some grass seed down... My neighbor's lawn has track marks across his lawn. When I complained Kolby did stop by. He talked with me and my neighbor and said they would get it fixed. We talked about a light tilling to get rid of the soil compaction and then have some top soil put in place to make the soil level again. This did not happen. I went to Jensens' office to talk to someone and the staff in the front went to get a manager in a nearby building and told me to leave my information and they would get back to me. This is the same routine they went through when I called to try to get my neighbor's lawn corrected before. Both times I indicated I wanted to speak to Kolby's boss, and both times they had Kolby contact me. The same Kolby that failed numerous times to handle the work throughout the life of the project. In addition to the damage done to the yard, the crew stepped all over the plants in the beds around the steps they were installing. There was no attempt to protect them. There was not an apology about their destruction.The finish work on the walls is so, so. They made some interesting choices in how they did the work. The termination of the caps is uneven on one side of the steps leading up from the street vs. the other side. Just lots of little things that led me to refer to the crew as "framers" vs. "finish carpenters".They took a shortcut on the steps leading to my front porch (probably to save them from having to cut the stone?) and we had to have them tear out the steps and reinstall so that it was aesthetically pleasing. When they came back to redo the steps, they brought stone and materials down the sidewalk instead of over the neighbor's lawn. If they had done that from the start, the damage to the neighbor's lawn would not have occurred.When they brought in top soil to back fill behind the wall, something that was called out in the contract, there were so many weed seeds in the soil that I have to weed every day in an attempt to get rid of them. They could have saved some of the soil they removed to install the wall and reused it. There was not weed seed in it. There would have been enough top soil, as they removed about a foot of topsoil to build the new wall. I suspect they forgot about the backfill, and only remembered when I complained it.All of these things could have been avoided with a little more oversight to the work being done and follow up on the things they said they would do. It is telling that the management will not contact me. I have to believe that they care about their reputation. Advice: Get it in writing. Insist on a plan that includes a drawing with dimensions. Read the contract carefully. They like to include things like, "Terms of payment: 1/3 down, 2/3 upon substantial completion." In other words, they reserve the right to bill you before the work is done.UPDATE: Changing from 2 to 3 stars. The owner did come out and they sent a "finish crew". The neighbors yard was repaired. They aerated my yard that was compacted, and the neighbors yard that was compacted. They replaced the cap stones on much of the wall and it looks better. The owner did listen and work to make things right, and I appreciate that. He agreed with me on the problems that I pointed out and was very apologetic.

It was clearly understood that the location was Nebraska City as written in the contract. Classic "bait & switch". They don't honor their contracts.

We had a wonderful experience working with Jensen Gardens and have no hesitation in recommending them for your landscaping needs. They are not a mow and blow operation but a fully equipped landscape operation. Kolby is the designer and estimator. He made and kept all of his appointments. He took photographs, took measurements, drew rough designs and then spent a long time figuring out what we wanted and what was recommended. His to scale computer generated renderings took form under the watchful eye of Russ the foreman and his crew. The crew showed up as scheduled, worked diligently over a 2 day period and transformed our front, side and back yard into a beautiful landscaped property complete with berms, trees, bushes, plants etc. Everything they planted was true to the design and their trees, bushes, plants and various grasses were all high quality and healthy. They all come with a 1 year warranty and we were even provided watering schedules to assure success.Overall we could not be happier with Jensen GardensVince M.