Manuel Valentine Gardening

I recently moved to Carlsbad, and the home which I purchased was 12 years old. The previous owner left my Manuel Valentine’s business card and said that Manual had been taking care of the lawn & garden for the last 4 years, since he first purchased the home. I spoke with Manuel the first weekend I was in the house in June, and he sounded like a nice fellow.
Manuel made several suggestions of trimming & planting that he’d been wanting to do, and all of them sounded like excellent ideas. We discussed a very very reasonable price, and he agreed to start the following week. Mr. Valentine is licensed (CA Lic #29 140), well referenced, extremely hard working, talented, and a genuinely nice guy. His English is excellent, he’s reliable, very willing to tackle any task in the yard, and gets the job done in a fraction of the time (¹⁄₃ or ¹⁄₅^th or ¹⁄₁₀^th) it would take the normal homeowner to do the same job.
Manuel takes tremendous pride in his work. When I told him how beautiful the roses were, he told me he’d planted them himself, 5 years ago, and has been giving them tender loving care ever since. In fact, he has been the sole gardener for the home since it was built in 2002, and he maintains many of the neighbors’ yards as well.
I’ve had a handful of gardeners over the years who start off the first or 2^nd visits very well, and then quickly decline to «blow and go» around the yard. Manuel is not one of those lackadaisical «blow and go» gardeners, and I appreciate his work so much, that I created this Unilocal review. Along with gardening, he also does lawn maintenance, drains & sprinklers, planting, and bush & shrub & palm removals. I could not be happier with his work, and I will be referring all of my neighbors who are not yet using Manuel’s skills to him as well. You can’t go wrong with hiring Manuel Valentine. There is no harder working gardener in N. San Diego County.