I was a client of Hughes for years for lawn mowing service. About a month ago, I received an impersonal letter in the mail indicating my account had been referred to a new provider because Hughes didn’t have enough staff to accommodate all customers. Several of my immediate neighbors on the street also use Hughes, and lo and behold their lawns are all getting mowed on time this year. So while the Hughes truck parks in front of my home each week to do my neighbor’s yards, its a bit of a mystery.

Turns out they were thinning their customer base and referring lawn only customers to others and keeping customers who also bought other services, such as annual yard cleanup/mulching and shrub service. If Hughes were smart, they would have called to attempt to upswell me – but they don’t seem to have the business acumen.

Thankfully I’m with another local company. Now and very happy. But if you’re looking for a company which values longtime customers, Hughes is not for you.

Hughes Landscaping to the rescue! Our 1930’s family home in Washington DC was in dire need of everything exterior. The home is now a rental and having had the interior work completed enough to rent I needed to start work on the exterior. John Hughes and team were so wonderful to work with and made the process seamless. All exterior entry stairs and walkways were capped, the original 1930’s driveway was transformed with pavers, all new railings and a new rear patio that expands the width of the house was completed. Hughes Landscaping also removed trees and revamped the front and back yards. The new front plantings have been installed and I look forward to finishing up the rear landscaping in the spring of 2017. I wish I could add the before photos… the results are quite striking!

When we moved to our new house with a very large lot we knew we needed a professional landscaping design. We are very glad that we quickly found Kelley Oklesson at Hughes Landscaping. Kelley was very generous with her time; she got to know our site and our tastes, ensuring a unique and appropriate landscape design. She graciously and seriously incorporated our ideas. She developed a landscape concept that focused on varied but complementary color and texture across seasons, that highlighted vertical as well as horizontal space, and that featured plants indigenous to this part of Maryland and the mid-Atlantic; and that was as close to deer-safe as possible. We elected to implement Kelley’s plan ourselves (with our gardener) so it was enormously helpful that Kelley’s landscape design concept was easy to follow and to implement. I would recommend her without hesitation for any landscape design work.

The Hughes Landscaping team of Kelley Oklesson (landscape designer) and Jerry Fyock (sales manager) are extremely knowledgeable and professional. They helped us design a beautiful English style garden along with touches of Southern style plantings for our front and side lawns. Kelly recommended plants that would thrive in the correct setting and also incorporate plantings that would allow for color throughout the various seasons. Jerry was great in recommending drains and gradings to correct water drainage issues we had around the base of the house and he has a terrific sense of scale. Additional services they provided for us was dead tree and limb removal and stump grinding, The personnel who did the actual installation were extremely pleasant and hard working. Cost breakdowns for each area was provided so we could choose which items fit our needs. We look forward to seeing our new yard blossom this coming spring. Thank you Kelley and Jerry!!

These guys came in under everyone else budget wise for mowing almost two acres. They’re always available to maintain flower beds, cut trees and whatever else you need done. The guys are polite, considerate and very professional. I’m so glad we found them.
We’ve had them for three years and will continue to use them.