Gentle Giant's Gardening and Landscaping Services

John the "Giant" and his professional crew transformed our backyard into a magical place eight years ago. Since then, we have enjoyed it as if it was a room in the house.
Initially, there were many challenges and hard choices to make about the existing plants. John turned every lemon into a lemonade. He wisely used and leveraged every existing tree while addressing our needs. He came up with a solution that was gorgeous and practical. His extensive knowledge of botany and the San Franciso climate alone is priceless. The materials he uses, such as stepping stones, are high quality, and the plants are as well.

With each year that passes, the garden looks better and better. Highly recommended!

They did a fabulous job installing a decomposed granite patio and flagstones in our backyard. We've trusted them with our garden maintenance for years. Pricing is fair and the team are consistent and kind. Highly recommend.

I can not say enough about Gentle Giants Gardening. They are so easy to work with. My back space was an overgrown mess, John and his team James and Ryan came in and took care of business. They then transformed my space into something I could it have imagined. They are so knowledgeable, and are so happy to shed that knowledge. I've learned so much this past week. I will always call on John the Gentle Giants gardening team for anything landscape, gardening, and outdoor things related. Thank you John

Gentle Giant Gardening is an awesome company and they specialize in drip systems! They installed my drought resistant plants and drip system a few years ago, and it worked perfectly! I recently had them back out to extend the drip system to include my new fruit trees on the side yard and it is amazing, couldn't be more satisfied, I highly recommend them!!

John and his team are fantastic. They listened and delivered completely transforming our front yard in the process. John is extremely knowledgable, kind and attentive to detail. Further his crew was hard-working, punctual and just generally did a great job. We'd highly recommend and will use him for our backyard too.

I can't thank John and his team enough for transforming our otherwise boring backyard into an edible garden space and the front yard into a beautiful drought tolerant garden. John is not just extremely knowledgeable and knows his stuff, but he goes the extra mile to help his customers learn different techniques, and tricks of urban gardening. John is genuinely interested in creating thriving garden spaces for his customers. I appreciate all that he and his team has done for us and will continue to work with them.

Wouldn't even consider hiring this company. Least professional approach to giving an estimate. How can one give an estimate without actually seeing the garden in person? a few iPhone pics does not do it. Every other landscaper or gardening professional manages to find a little time to come by and take a look. Why go with someone who couldn't bother? And they are certainly not the least expensive in the area.

We were very happy with the quality of work that this company did. However, because of the size of our garden it required more attention than the crew could give.

They were never able to complete the entire yard and had to rush off to the next job. This went on for three visits and we finally decided that they couldn't handle our yard. In hindsight I could've reached out to the company, but the supervising landscaper at the time could have done the same in order to sure they had more time to complete the work.

We love Gentle Giants!


We wanted to take out an overgrown, poorly maintained, sloped front yard from a home we recently bought in Pacifica and replace it with drought tolerant flowers and grasses. John is knowledgeable, friendly, and very responsive. His team was efficient and easy to work with. I sent him an e-mail this week to ask about watering (the long term plan is just once a year once it's established - but I'm not sure if it's "established" yet) - and he's going to swing by next week when he's in the area to check on the yard and let me know. We use their maintenance service as well - and Terri is also lovely and responsive. It brings me joy every time I look out the kitchen window to see our beautiful front garden - and it's been in place only about 10 months. It also feels good to support a family run, locally owned, green business.

We moved into a house whose entire yard was thick with foxtails - very dangerous for our long-haired dog. John and his crew ripped it all out, then put in heavy cardboard and gorilla hair mulch to keep it out.

John is a true expert on the local plants in the bay area. Whenever we had an inkling of "we like this" or "we don't like that", he had a deep trove of plants and design ideas to pick from. We've had our garden for a couple months now, and all of the plants are doing great.

If you want to 180 transform a yard, I couldn't recommend Gentle Giants more.