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Up Close and Personal – Green Valley Nursery & Landscape
This is an article which appeared in the Home Improvement & Remodeling Magazine, May 2010.
If you listed all the ingredients that make a company successful, customer service is usually No. 1. Add to that carefully selected merchandise, expert, experienced personnel, attention to every detail and repeat customers and you have a recipe for success. Toss in community service and that puts the company over the top.
Because of their focus on all those key details, Don and Julie DeVorss have seen Green Valley Nursery & Landscape blossom into a successful business. They credit that growth to personally ensuring that their customers’ experiences with their company are both rewarding and satisfying.
The DeVorss’ mission is to exceed expectations of customers and go the extra mile whether customers are looking for the freshest, most vibrant plant materials or they are working with Green Valley’s experienced landscape design staff.
“We are unusual in that we are landscapers who have a nursery,” said Julie. They not only help homeowners with design, consultations and installations, they also offer a wide selection of plants and plant materials that do well in the area. That knowledge is a plus when assisting homeowners with landscaping design plans and selecting the More >
On the cover – Home Improvement & Remodeling Magazine – April 2010
When you walk or drive through a neighborhood, what catches your eye? Beautiful blooms in complementary colors, gorgeous greenery, a water fountain or pond, a welcoming walkway, a balance of shade trees and shrubs? Certainly, that type of landscaping is attractive and appears to be skillfully created to enhance the home and its style of architecture.
Contrast that with a house where plants are haphazardly placed with out any pattern or plan. Or the one that appears to lack care with flowers that are fading, colors that clash or trees that are gasping for water. The first home is like a painting done by a professional artist. Every detail is picture perfect. The latter is like an unfinished or unframed canvas. (more…)
Home Improvement & Remodeling Magazine
by: Julie DeVorss
After years of waiting to remodel the interior and exterior of their home, an El Dorado Hiill’s couple decided it was time to take advantage of the slower economy and use their saved up funds to invest in remodeling their front and backyards. Five years ago the homeowners got a bid on replastering and re-tiling their pool and decided to wait. A year ago they’re neighbors across the street got a front yard “facelift” for their yard, which inspired them get a quote to remodel their own outdoor spaces. They knew that they could take advantage of lower pricing and probably get more for the same amount of money they would have spent five years ago on their pool. For example the cost of two-colored stamped colored concrete in 2005 was anywhere from $9-12 per sq. foot. You can now find that same quality concrete $6.50-$7.50 per sq. ft.
The homeowners started by contacting the neighbors’ landscape contractor, Don DeVorss of Green Valley Nursery & Landscape (“Green Valley”). Green Valley set up a meeting with their landscape designer, Jill Hardesty of Beyond the Gate Landscape Design, to create a plan for their front and back yards that would solve their More >
